This is my first blog. So in the interests of ‘just getting something out there’ I thought it be appropriate for me to first introduce myself. Yes , this is repeated on my About page for future reference. So again , Hello .. I will be making my first offical blog post in the next week. If in the meantime you have any questions , information , thoughts etc please subscribe and forward these on to me.
I am an Integrative Physician board certified in Family Practice ,practicing for 20 years in Chicago. I have studied ,explored and applied a variety of wholistic medical therapies and philosophies for over 30 years.My earliest studies began in humanistic and transpersonal psychology at the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in the mid 70’s . Over time this lead me into sleep research specifically sleep apnea ,at the Stanford Sleep Center working for 4 years with Christian Guilminault,M.D., William Dement, M.D. and others.
The mind-body dynamic intrigued me so much that I was instinctively drawn to the philosophy of medical healing developed by Andrew Taylor Still,M.D. the founder of Osteopathic Medicine.
After completing my residency in family practice I worked almost 90 plus hours a week in a HMO clinic . It was here that I began family medicine from clinic to hospital ,urgent care to even house calls. I was delivering babies, doing general pediatrics , in office gynaecology, internal medicine and osteopathic manipulation . I would see typically 40-60 patients a day.I was on call usually every 4-5 weekend from Friday until Monday morning and delivering 4-5 babies a month! Even with that heavy of a clinic schedule I would manage to spend about 15 -30 minutes with every patient .This was unheard of even to this day of HMO medicine. My naiveté of the health care system in the HMO model was replaced rapidly as I sat on patient chart reviews mandated by HMO insurance carriers and carried out by their hired ‘hitmen/women’ . I will cover this in more detail in my blogs later . It was there I decided that medical care has a moral imperative to root out the cause of disease and not just treat symptoms . It is my personal belief that a physician’s primary role is to aid in helping nature heal if not cure disease ,to think outside the standard western medical paradigm and by whatever positive reasonable means available, palliate the pain and suffering of the individual while maintaining the dignity and quality of the indiviudal’s life .Over the last 20 years I have traveled and studied with many truly dedicated ‘healers’ of many of the healing professions.
This blog is dedicated to the thousands of women and men healers be they physicians , nurses, acupuncturists, nutritionists , homeopaths, reiki , massage therapists , physical therapists around the world that work so tiresly providing health guidance and alternative healthcare options to millions of people .In turn this blog is a forum for anyone with a sincere interest in learning about the latest advances in integrative medicine. In the course of my years of practice I have and am actively learning about new therapeutic approaches from around the world. I network with hundreds of health care providers daily via internet and am on a number of professional health care /integrative medical listserves. I hope my posts will provide an interactive exchange of questions and ideas on ways one can optimize their health ,resolving their dis-ease without always resorting to BIG PHARMA .
I do encourage controversy . There is an old Zen saying that was shared with me before I went to medical school, “the greatest sin is to have desire and no hope”!
May the soul that is healed help heal the world
David Zeiger,D.O.FAAFP
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