by Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM
Conventional health care has ignored spirituality for far too long. Integrative medicine acknowledges the crucial importance of our spiritual beliefs and the dramatic influence they exert in our health and well-being. The foundation of holistic medicine and it’s newer cousin, integrative medicine, builds on the concept of interconnected body-mind-spirit. What this means is that our body, our mind and our spirit are indivisible and inter connected. Conventional health care suffers because it wrongly assumes that one can provide comprehensive health care to the body without recognition given to the influence of mind and spirit. Likewise, modern...
Bill Manahan, MD, ABIHM
Being an ABIHM Diplomate gave me the knowledge and assurance that what I did in my practice on a daily basis was based on a body of knowledge approved of and validated by a cohort of my professional integrative holistic medicine colleagues.
Lee Lipsenthal
by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM (with input from others)
It is with a very heavy heart that we announce the passing of Lee Lipsenthal, MD, ABIHM. Lee was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2009; it returned several months ago. He was surrounded by family when he crossed over on Monday, September 19, 2011.
Lee had a conventional medical training, with an undergraduate degree from George Washington, medical school at Howard University, residency at Medical College of Pennsylvania. During his training, though, he became interested in prevention of heart disease, rather than...