When looking for answers to your health problems, it can feel as if you’re on your own. Your health and happiness are our top priorities. We’re here to help you identify the source of your problems and get you back on track to feeling healthier and happier. Functional medicine, IV infusions, and functional aesthetics are just some of the methods we utilize to get to the bottom of your health issues and help you get back to feeling your best. Whether you live in Carmel, Zionsville, Indianapolis, or the surrounding areas, we are here to help. Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. The content is not a substitute for professional medical care, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. If you would like more detailed medical information, please contact Integrative Medicine through their website at https://integrativemla.com/ Show Transcript Welcome to Better Medicine, a return to when medicine made you feel better. Now, here's Dr. Jason Amick and Dr. CJ Pabla. Hello, this is Dr. CJ Pabla. This is Dr. Jason Amick. Welcome to Better Medicine. This is our first podcast. We're excited to do this, to start this endeavor, to share kind of our thoughts, our philosophy, and a lot about our practice, and to talk about things that are relevant and important to people every day. So one of our big philosophies at our practice is returning to when medicine actually made you better. And that has so much to do with our integrative approach to medicine and healthcare in general. So, Dr. Pawa, tell us a little bit about why you started the practice, how you developed functional integrative medicine mindset. I practiced emergency medicine for 18 years and this is where Dr. Amick and I kind of connected, but, uh, we'd see a lot of chronic stuff in the emergency department. Not necessarily acute stuff. Uh, women that had gut problems, multiple CT scans, and, uh, no one can really find what's wrong. We could tell them what it's not, but what was it? Right. So I started thinking about like, why are so many chronic stuff in this country just handled with just medication. So that was kind of the philosophy, could we work upstream and find root causes to these problems if we dug a little bit deeper. So that's kind of the philosophy behind that practice. We're not anti-medicine. I think medicines are great for stabilizing symptoms and getting people kind of stabilized, but you know, we kind of look at it as a band-aid. And then, you know, what can we do to work upstream? So that's kind of my philosophy and Dr. Amick's philosophy, and we know the gut is linked to many things. Dr. Amick can kind of speak about that, but so that's kind of why I decided to get out of emergency medicine and deal more on the chronic side and look at more root causes for patients. I think we both had some personal experiences we can talk about, but I you know, I can remember a long time ago we work in the ER. We would have patients come in with sometimes pages, two, three pages of medicines. I can remember even back then kind of thinking to myself that, gosh, you would think that if medicine solved problems, the more medicines you were on, the healthier you would be. And it was never the case. The more medicines they were on, the worse off they were. So I know early on, we started kind of questioning our training and the standard medical model, you know, 20 years ago, kind of going, nah, does this really kind of make sense? And so, you know, from my perspective, you know, I kind of stumbled into integrated functional medicine just through, you know, lots of different experiences that I had, including some hospital administration roles and really getting to see what happens behind the scenes, you know, how the insurance model affects healthcare, how it drives clinical decisions in healthcare organizations, looking at different types of healthcare models, you know, from emergency medicine care, under MTALA and all those things, all the way to cardiac and cardiovascular care, you know, acutely and chronically, you know, in those two areas, I would say in a lot of areas, the United States, we surpass every other country with our acute care model when it comes to trauma, cardiovascular, you know, heart attacks, strokes, you know, when, when an insult occurs to people, we, we are bar none the top of the world in managing those. Yeah. But when it comes to preventing those things, we really, it's sad and embarrassing how terrible we really rank against other countries, even some of the countries that aren't necessarily considered first world countries. So, from that perspective, I kind of, you know, really took into account, okay, so what else is out there? And that's kind of why I stumbled into functional medicine, integrated medicine, and really ...
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