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| Letter from Medical Director Dr. John Pan |
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Dear Patient,
Let me welcome you to the Center for Integrative Medicine. You are about to embark on a journey of healing that will be unique and fulfilling. The ability to reach your healing goal will hinge upon a successful partnership between you and the group of dedicated practitioners here at the Center. We will undertake a process to understand your condition and address it in a wholistic and methodic fashion in order to achieve complete healing. As you may expect, this journey is often arduous and will require considerable commitment from YOU and from US. Please read the accompanying article,
"The Constellation of Healing and Disease
This is necessary in order for you to understand our approach and the role you are empowered to play during this process.
The goal of the first visit is to collect all the pertinent information regarding you and your condition. Please bring all your health information: recent lab tests, diagnostic readings of x-rays, CTs, MRIs (bring original films only if we request it), medication list, all the bottles of supplements, herbs, and remedies that you are taking. If you think we should see it, bring it. During this visit we will review with you, your Patient Health Inventory, construct your personal integrated health story developed around the three interactive components of, Antecedent, Trigger/Milieu and Disregulation (described in ¡§The Constellation of Healing and Disease¡¨). This will generally take 60 minutes.
The second visit will follow in one to two weeks. This will allow us time to fill in missing information, order tests, retrieve old information and complete relevant questionnaires. In addition, it allows us to review your condition, investigate and explore treatment options. During this visit, we will discuss our management plan and options, set priorities, and develop short term and long term healing goals. We will help you implement the management plan, schedule follow-up visits and appointments with other health providers of our team if indicated. We should be able to accomplish this in 30 minutes.
I hope this tells you what to expect and what will be accomplished at your initial visits to the Center. Please feel free to call if you have questions that need clarification. We are looking forward to be part of your health care team.
Yours sincerely,
John Pan, MD
Medical Director
