Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy, originally founded as the Santa Monica Drug Company, opened in 1944. Owned and operated by Norman and Mary Litvak the store opened as a full service pharmacy in downtown Santa Monica on the corner of 4th and Broadway. We strives to maintain the most up-to-date information from research or studies on alternative and integrative medicine. Owned and operated by licensed healthcare practitioners for over 72 years. The staff members are board trained in all the different science of alternative medicine. Our pharmacist is skilled in modern medicine and specializes in women’s hormone.…
New Wave Holistic Health & Medical Center, a for-profit organization, was created to improve the quality of life for people of all ages during any stage of their medical needs and treatment. Unlike conventional health centers, this company is a unique partnership among medical doctors, medical industry technicians, nutrionists, physical therapists, and certified wellness personnel. The equal partners, Mike Skowronski, Nadia Thompson, Novika Fusanti and Lisa Haun are business professionals in the health/wellness field and they are teaming up to put several health and wellness services in one location. New Wave Holistic Health & Medical Center will offer holistic care alongside conventional medical practices. We feel the services The Center provides are a good combination for its patients because The Center provides convenience and easy access to components of medical healing and treatment as well as part of a larger healthy lifestyle continuum.…
J.B., a 45-year-old woman, is an office manager for a busy law firm and single mother of two children. While cleaning a shower stall, she experienced a sharp pain in her lower back. Over the next few hours, her lower back became increasing more painful. By the time she picked up the children from their sporting event and drove to the nearest walk-in medical clinic, she had a sharp shooting pain into her right buttocks. Her spinal x-rays were not significant, and she was diagnosed with acute musculoskeletal strain, instructed to take a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication, such as ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) and given a prescription for hydrocodone 5 mg/acetaminophen 500 mg (Lortab) PO q6h pm for severe pain. She was instructed to rest her back for the next 24 hours. Monday morning she called in sick to work because she couldn’t think clearly because of the pain medication. She developed stomach pain, and her back pain was only slightly improved. She called a friend who had experienced a similar episode and related a favorable outcome after being treated with acupuncture. J.B. comes to your alternative medicine clinic for her acupuncture appointment.…
Over the years, Dr. Trabulsi has significantly increased his practice’s healthcare and patient outreach capabilities by hiring additional medical professionals including chiropractors, acupuncturists, and massage therapists. Current staff members include the multifaceted pain management specialist Dr. Ayman Farag, a trained anesthesiologist with a career that spans nearly three decades.…
In our quest for providing a wholesome and healing environment for patients today, some hospitals have focused on holistic approaches that encompass the body, mind and soul to incorporate external environment. The model of healing hospital paradigm takes recovery and wellness of a person’s total being into account. Contrary to traditional way of curing diseases, this model concept embellished the idea that the physical needs as well as the emotional and spiritual needs are paramount to the patients’ healing process. Important to this paradigm are the three main components which are a loving care culture, an environment that fosters healing and an integration of technology and work design. However, one should not forget that there are multiple challenges to overcome with the implementation of the healing environment in the customary hospital setting. This paper will discuss the components of healing hospitals and their relationships to spirituality, challenges or barriers and the complexities involved in the implementation.…
This case study based on an elderly man named David is 56years old and has a number of personal health issues that are affecting his daily life and on top on that his wife has a history of breast cancer.…
P4 – explain the role of complementary therapies in relation to orthodox treatments (IE3; CT2; CT4)…
Acupuncture- Is a collection of procedures that involve stimulating points of the body. Some of the techniques used are penetrating the skin with small thin needles; this is one of the traditional Chinese methods. According to the traditional Chinese methods, stimulating the acupuncture points helps to correct imbalances in the flow. It has also been used to reduce depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances.…
In a recent discussion paper submission, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Primary Healthcare Advisory Group stated that keeping elderly people in their own homes as long as possible is a goal key to better health outcomes. It is generally accepted that as a person ages, the number of medicines they take, the number of chronic conditions they live with, and the number of hospital visits they will require, will increase. A concerning statistic is that as many as one in four elderly patients discharged from hospital will experience an adverse health event within thirty days of hospital discharge. These events may have serious outcomes, which may include a need for care in an emergency department, readmission to hospital, admission to a nursing…
* inVentive Health states “inVentiv Health brings a well-informed perspective to the global crossroads of healthcare.” on their website.…
Every health care profession has their roles and responsibilities, but there also come the limitations with that. Some of the limitations of intensivist are: about patient information when patient comes to the ICU. Intensivist sometimes does not accurate patient past medical information, which may affect in delay in diagnosing the problem. For instance, if the patient has cancer, and if it is not known to the intensivist, some clinical presentations might be due to cancer. It may affect the diagnosis and in treatment regimen. Moreover, in various cases the intensivist cannot recognize the newly diagnosable disease. For example, a new viral disease named Ebola outbreaks were seen last year, if a similar case comes in ICU, intensivist might not…
My exposure to being a patient, my experiences, and the desire to help others are the attributes that drive me to be an osteopathic physician. Specifically, I am inspired to pursue emergency medicine focused on rural areas. At the end of my military deployment to Iraq in 2011, I started developing a variety of unexplained symptoms. The military sent me to an assortment of doctors in different specialties, but no real explanation was found. Since the etiology was unknown, my doctors focused on treating my symptoms. At one point I was on nearly a dozen medications, and I only felt worse. In 2013, I met an osteopathic physician who explained the importance of taking care of my mind, body and spiritual health. She referred me to a nutritionist,…
Your statement regarding nurse practitioner’s having a more holistic view of a patient based on the patient-centered care model that is taught really jumped out at me. Merriam-Webster defines holistic as relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts (Merriam-Webster, 2015). With a little research, I discovered that there is, in fact, an American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) that was established in 1981. The AHNA strives to lead holistic nursing by assisting, teaching and research. The AHNA imagines a world where we, as nurses, care for the entirety of a person to influence healing and peace. Holistic nursing was accepted as a nursing specialty…
It is upsetting to know that many people go through the same circumstances of not being stigmatize and not receiving adequate services. This only reflects that we need to be better educated especially medical staff that will be constantly have contact with people with mental illness. If doctors and nurses could understand mental illness better, then instead of stereotyping and labeling there could be earlier interventions for the patients.…
At the clinic, the nurse greeted me and attended to my registeration promptly. She informed me of the estimated waiting time and suggested to me that I could go for my breakfast nearby while waiting for my turn. Since I had my breakfast already, I chose to wait. I was warmly greeted by the doctor when I entered the consultation room. His room is simple and neat, there is also a large professonal certificate plaque hanging on the wall behind him. Unlike other doctors who would start by asking for my sickness, he started a friendly conversation to understand my basic background such as my school and my specialisation. It felt genuine because of his tone, eye contact and the fact that he recorded the details down on my medical record card as I spoke. When talking about my sickness, he made it a point to address my concerns by explaining to me the mechanism of diagnosis in a comprehensible manner. Though hesitant, I told him that I was taking chinese medicine as I thought it would be better than english medicine in some cases. He did not dismiss the validity of chinese medicine as I imagined. Instead, he discussed with me objectively and concluded that it is about personal preference and belief. He even suggested to me a simple chinese accupuncture massage remedy for me to try out.…