How does the physician view you, the patient?

The view from the Physician's Chair is a different perspective than the view from the Patient's Chair.

Let us say that you are the patient.

You have your goals, in this setting, for health. More than likely, it is to reduce pain.

Let us say that I am the physician.

My goal is the help you achieve your goals. How do I accomplish that?

• I have to know your goals

• I have to determine if those goals are attainable

• We both have to make decisions on how to maintain the goals that we can reach

How does the doctor determine if your goals are attainable? We test these questions:

• Do the structures have enough physical integrity?

• Does your chemical makeup (your blood health, your cellular health, your lung health) have enough nutrition to regenerate ailing function?

• Do your daily activities and consumptions promote regeneration or degeneration?

When the physician is treating you, how does she or he determine if the work being done is successful?

The patient may simply say, "My pain is less."

But pain is not a reliable indicator. Pain is emotion, and sometimes it is also damage.

The physician must have metrics:

• pupil reactions

• muscle strength

• balance

• digestive health

• sleep integrity

• word-finding

• emotionality

• range of motion

• blood work analyses

The physician views the patient, at their core, as an inefficient reflexive system.

If those reflexes of action and reaction to the universe are made more efficient then the patient and the physician will more than likely agree to have achieved their mutual goals.

Thus, from the Physician's Chair, we see you as a human system that has lost enough reflexive efficiency to trigger painful alert signals.

When you leave our office, you are no longer a patient.

You are all of the person that you want to be and the light that you express is built upon the foundation of your reflexive stability.