“Physician in the Family” was created to provide personal support, advice and counseling to you and your family during life’s passages.  We are your partner in facing immediate crisis, or in a chronic condition requiring long-term care, or in preventing and minimizing the chances of any diseases or injuries, or in  wanting to achieve peak performance and health.  

The face of medicine and healthcare has changed dramatically in the last fifty years.  We have progressed from only a handful of drugs for any given condition to a multitude of new medications.  Crude surgery has advanced from open exploratory procedures to less-invasive arthroscopic surgery and more-precise robotic surgery.  

And with these changes, so has the general family physician who did everything has become a relic of the past.  One of my most memorable experience was an externship in the Sacramento Delta with the town’s family doctor.  A warm and devoted man, years later I returned to find that the town named the city park after him. after his death.  

Yes, the doctor who delivered babies, and performed orthopedic surgery and rounded on his patients in the hospital is not to be found today in the large metropolitan areas.  Private practice has been replaced by large medical groups with time constraints on the patient visit, mid-level providers of nurse practitioners and physician assistants used for cost-effectiveness, an enormous amount of legal paper work, and hospitalist physicians caring for you in the hospital.  Though supposedly not legally allowed, we are indeed  in an era of Corporate Medicine.  Though a few physicians have chosen a concierge practice, the future wave of large medical groups intertwine with hospital corporations, is now well established.

While a systematic healthcare organization directed by insurance companies and hospital corporations have many advantages, it comes with a more complex and confusing system, and less personal physician-patient relationship.  As a general model, when one speaks of Kaiser, there is an insurance company, a hospital corporation and a medical group.  Needless to say who has the least say.  Indeed, when a patient is asked who there physician is, the response is Kaiser and not a physician name.

Physician in the Family was created to fill the void of the weakening  physician and patient relationship.  We are not a concierge physician or   primary health doctor.  Instead, we are your medical counsel, serving as your health coach laying out the strategy with your physicians, your partner in educating you on aspects and options of your healthcare situation, and your medical advocate to assure the best medical management  by helping navigate the insurance and hospital care maze.  We do this with a team approach that includes interacting with your healthcare providers, your present insurance and hospital system, along with our team of consultants, and with you at the center as an active participant.

There is no situation too small or too great.  Cost is individualized, and can be made for specific short-term needs or long-term ongoing management.  Our medical management costs are not covered by insurance.  Though we are licensed in certain parts of the US, as medical counsel our services as medical counsel not as heath providers, so we are available throughout the US, and worldwide.  We will work with your local team of healthcare providers, and if necessary, find the best specialists available in the world.  Care will at all times be confidential, and information shared to the extent directed by your permission.  We can travel to any parts of the United States and world to provide for your medical management.  

 Our experienced medical professionals evaluate you first as a whole-person, by first getting to know you and your family.  Second, we evaluate your medical needs and problems, to determine goals.  Third, as your medical counsel, we work with you and your family to provide education and options for future care.  Fourth, we work with your primary care physician and specialists, to review the present treatment plan and provide for Medical Management of the appropriate next steps for diagnostic workup and treatment.  Fifth, we stay with you and your family, working as your Medical Advocate in dealings with the healthcare providers, healthcare facilities, your insurance companies, and community resources.  Depending on the circumstances, this can be a short-term arrangement or a long-term arrangement. 

We deal with any health issues or concerns.  Examples include:

• Spinal cord paralysis
• Brain conditions and injuries 
• Autism
• Disabilities 
• Alzheimer’s 
• Metabolic conditions, diabetes and renal disease
• Professional sports preventive and injury care 
• Chronic Pain 
• Addiction to Substance, Alcohol, and Behaviors
• Psychiatric conditions anxiety, depression, psychoses 
• Diet and Nutrition 
• Men's Health
• Hormonal Replacement Therapy 
• Women's Health and Fertility
• Regenerative Medicine 
• Genomic Planning
• Cancer
• Terminal conditions and alternative options
• Anti-aging and Beyond

Not only will our doctors treat your existing conditions, we also work to prevent pain and illnesses from occurring. We strive to help you improve your quality of life, achieve your wellness goals, and heal your body to live your best life possible.