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Welcome
Bone of Contention, Tuesday July 20, 2004
-The Washington
Post
Thank you
for taking the time to look at our web site. I have been
practicing family medicine for twenty-five years. During that
time I have seen tremendous benefit from advances in technology and
medications. At the same time, the health care system has
ignored that we are intricate beings composed of complex
interactions between body,
mind, spirit, and our internal and external environment.
In 1997 I started Steinmetz Medical Associates to respond to a
community need for a more holistically integrated medical practice.
Integrative Medicine is a movement that came together in the early
1990’s under the leadership of Dr. Andrew Weil and has been
expanding since that time.
Integrative
Medicine is defined as:
Healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person
(body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle. It
emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of all
appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.
The Basic
Principles of Integrative Medicine are as follows:
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A partnership between
patient & practitioner in the healing process
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Appropriate use of
conventional & alternative methods to facilitate the body's
innate healing response
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Consideration of all
factors that influence health, wellness & disease, including
mind, spirit & community as well as body
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A philosophy that neither
rejects conventional medicine nor accepts alternative medicine
uncritically
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Recognition that good
medicine should be based in good science, inquiry driven & open
to new paradigms
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Use of natural, less
invasive interventions whenever possible. |
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The broader concepts of
promotion of health & the prevention of illness as well as the
treatment of disease
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Practitioners as models of
health & healing, committed to the process of self-exploration &
self-development
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We are proud to offer our
unique integrative medicine services to the Washington DC area.
Marie Steinmetz, MD
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