Primary Healthcare Consulting: How healthcare should feel!
Do you feel unheard in healthcare? Tired of yet another test or another pill without understanding what it’s for or your options? Is Googling symptoms making you feel even worse?
You could benefit from the independent and individualized care from a Primary Healthcare Consultant.
These days, there’s an endless stream of services to prescribe pills and order tests, but few offer opportunities for deep dialogue about your health story. Now you can access a Board-Certified human-centered conventional healthcare provider who puts the care back in healthcare: combining the medical expertise you need with the intentionality and therapeutic vibe you deserve.
How can a Primary Healthcare Consultant help you?
Support you in understanding what tests mean and what they can’t tell us.
Inform you when your symptoms need more evaluation and when you don’t need to worry.
Empower you to make decisions about your healthcare that are actually informed, based on the best of our science and your values and goals.
Teach you how to effectively navigate the healthcare system we have (not the one we all wish we had), putting you back in the driver’s seat.
What does it look like?
Recently, I helped a client make sense of longstanding symptoms and conflicting health advice from both alternative and conventional practitioners. After thoroughly reviewing their health history and their concerns, we looked at the tests that were causing the confusion. I taught the client what the tests meant, including what we couldn’t know from them and why. I identified several other medical concerns that other practitioners had overlooked, and we developed a plan to address them.
In the end, the patient saved more than $600 by choosing not to proceed with a complicated treatment regimen that was unlikely to help and had potential risks for harm. Armed with a clear understanding of the issues and their goals, the client was able to easily communicate this to their PCP who confirmed the diagnoses I had raised and was able to treat the underlying issues. We worked through the medical and emotional issues in an unhurried, human environment, which made heading to the sterile 7-minute doctor’s appointment an effective tool rather than a disappointment.
After getting to know each other, clients love having the ability to do focused check-in about health issues that come up- it’s easy to schedule a quick (or long) appointment to talk about test results, new symptoms or advice for helping manage trouble with treatment plans. I love walking beside clients on their health journeys and clients are comforted and empowered by easy access to personalized, straightforward healthcare consults that make them feel like a person, not a patient. The approach is to combine the long-term therapeutic relationship of a therapist with the medical knowledge they can’t provide!
If you find yourself frequently Googling your health issues or getting freaked out by WebMD, you’d benefit from a Primary Healthcare Consultant- I “worry” so you don’t have to.
You deserve to feel heard in healthcare- schedule your complimentary call today to get started!
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Time to stop just dealing, and start healing.