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Practice Management
The Power of Placebo: Why Context Matters for Healing
The placebo effect is a widely accepted phenomenon in science and medicine, but its potential role in improving patient health is rarely addressed. This is unfortunate because clinical trials increasingly demonstrate the power of placebo (and nocebo) to drastically alter patient outcomes. Read on to learn the science behind placebo and how to harness its effects in your clinical practice.
ADAPT Student Spotlights #2
Practitioners from many different backgrounds are finding their way to functional medicine. In my ADAPT Practitioner Training Program, we have all kinds of practitioners: MDs, DOs, DCs, PAs, NDs, FNPs, NPs, RNs, LAcs, PTs, RDs, and even DDSs! If you’ve been looking for a way to improve your patient care but don’t see a clear path to get from where you are to where you want to be, take a look at some examples of how students in the first year of ADAPT made this transition.
ADAPT Student Spotlight
What is your vision for your functional medicine practice? What would you do with your new skills if you’d been through my year-long ADAPT Framework Level One training? A strong foundation in functional medicine—combined with an ancestral perspective—will dramatically improve your results with patients, open many doors for practice growth, and help you feel more engaged and satisfied with your work. I asked some current students in ADAPT to share how the training is helping them to accomplish their specific goals. Here are two of the responses (I’ll be sharing more in the near future).