Energetix Celebrates the Practice of Medicine by Gregory Hake, CEO
Posted on | January 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
Gregg Hake, CEO | Energetix
It occurred to me this morning that we must never forget the tremendous blessing we receive through the hands and minds of the men and women who have dedicated their live to the practice of medicine. It’s not an easy way to spend one’s life, after all. Dealing with an incessant stream of aches and pains of fellow human beings in a system that could only be described as “frustrating,” healthcare is not for the weak-kneed or faint-of-heart. Eager to help people lead healthy, happy lives, yet hand-cuffed by an oppressive financial framework, doctors, nurse practitioners and other health care professionals diligently march on, helping, inspiring and serving.
I would love to see healthcare reform improve the lives of its technicians. Those who dedicate their lives to helping others lead healthy lives deserve quality of life themselves. The greatest complaints I hear center on the deteriorating doctor-patient relationship. Doctors don’t have enough time per patient, patients don’t feel like doctors have the time to listen, and the pay system rewards on quantity, not quality. So what changes can we make that allow for a higher quality doctor-patient relationship?
Healthcare can be divided into two primary camps: acute and chronic care. Until the 1900s, medicine largely focused on acute needs. The last 100 years, however, have brought with them an incredible shift in the field of medicine. Chronic care represents some 75% of all medical costs generated by doctor visits in the US today! Unfortunately, the system we have appears to be more effective in caring for acute needs than the burgeoning chronic needs. This must surely be one source of the frustration our doctors are feeling. They aren’t tooled properly to handle the bulk of the cases they see!
One light I see on the horizon is the growing interest in prevention and wellness. Scientific advances are permitting earlier detection of illness and age-old preventive strategies such as homeopathy, botanical remedies, Traditional Chinese Medicine and other complementary and alternative approaches are enjoying an unprecedented resurgence. Energetix is eager to help doctors add tools to their tool kits so that they can do what they dedicated so much time and effort to do: help people live healthy and happy lives. There are many options available to round out every type of practice. Wellness solutions add value and effectiveness to standard treatment protocols and they require little additional investment of time or energy.
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January 26th, 2010 @ 1:36 am
The initial visit with a client is the most important, in my opinion. I spend 1-2 hours on an initial visit. This includes getting their history, as well as EDS Testing, and learning a lot more about the client in the process. You learn a lot of things they forgot to mention in their initial paperwork, and it helps when coming up with a healing protocol…I value the time with my clients, and they comment on how important it is to them.
January 26th, 2010 @ 8:47 am
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January 28th, 2010 @ 11:07 pm
I appreciate your comment, Debra. A very practical step, but one that requires a very different system of billing from the typical “doctor visit,” I am sure.
January 29th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm
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