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A Glimpse into the Emerging Field of Integrative Medicine
with Yorktown Physician Minerva Santos, MD
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and Rejuvenation Center
914-921-LIFE (5433)
located in Rye, NY
by Kazaray Taylor
I
Your Family’s Natural Solution to Living Well
magine a primary care physician who sends you home with recom- mendations for herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, and a plan to not only get healthy, but stay healthy as well. Thanks to the field of Integrative Medicine, doctors like Minerva Santos, MD, are practicing these things with great re- sults. Santos is among many physicians who have chosen to supplement their traditional training with studies at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, created by Dr. Andrew Weil. Graduates of Dr. Weil’s programs are able to pro- vide their patients with the best of both worlds – traditional western medicine and complementary healing practices. A Bronx native who has been
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practicing medicine in Yorktown since 1992, Santos pursued the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine because patients were asking her about things like herbs and acupuncture, and she wanted to be able to provide proven protocols. Now she uses the knowledge she gathered
Westchester/Putnam Counties
at the Arizona Center to advise her patients in these areas with confidence. Says Santos, “If we use an herb, there are the studies to back it up. What we do is based on proven therapy.” Dr. Santos still prescribes antibiot- ics and other medications when neces- sary, but she also guides her patients toward the latest proven complementa- ry medicine practices. Like others who practice Integrative Medicine, Santos focuses on prevention to help keep pa- tients from getting sick in the first place. There are significant differences
between traditionally trained medical doctors and those who’ve also been trained in Integrative Medicine, notes Santos. “Where traditional medicine trains doctors to look at people as a bunch of cells and not look at what is going on in a person’s life to see what may be making them ill, Integrative Medicine seeks to find the underling cause of disease. Is the person de- pressed? Is it a spiritual issue?”
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