Welcome to PMC Marin
Located in Marin County, California, and celebrating more than 25 years of service, Preventive Medical Center of Marin (PMCM) offers a wide range of services and payment programs in an Integrated Family Medicine Practice. By combining and integrating healthcare services within the contemporary insurance model, PMCM represents one of the most popular and expanding areas of medicine and is considered by many to be the health care of the future. PMCM uses a wide variety of safe and effective therapies to both treat health problems and balance the body. We also provide the latest in innovative health assessment beyond the typical Western Medicine lab tests. These include vitamin and mineral assays for nutritional adequacy, food allergy tests for both immune (antibody) and cell reactions as well as intradermal allergy testing, saliva and blood measurement of hormone levels, and other tests to look more deeply for problems as well as view the energetic and ionic balance in the body.
PMCM offers a multidisciplinary spectrum of healthcare services and products. Patients and practitioners work together to design choices and create options for the treatment of health problems. This differs markedly from other restricted methods, which may support one way of thinking and one system of medicine. Although PMCM embraces and works within a Western Medicine model, it is also responsive to the demand and interest of its patients and their desires for therapeutic alternatives, and for practitioners who understand both allopathic and natural medical approaches.
PMCM is also the only "alternative" or "integrated" center in the North Bay Area that works within the insurance system, utilizing a wide variety of organizations and health plans, including Aetna, Blue Shield and Blue Cross, United Health Care, Medicare and others.
What is Integrated Medicine?
Integrated medicine is a common sense approach to a complex issue. I will endeavor to explain not only its simplicity but also its necessity in today's world.
Western allopathic medicine, commonly referred to as "traditional" medicine, has not really passed through tradition. It is the youngest in the healthcare field and is more appropriately termed "conventional" medicine, because it is "of convention" at this time. Conventional medicine has its strengths in acute crisis intervention, but has great limitations in successfully treating most chronic diseases. This method currently focuses on attack and conquer, primarily with technology - synthetic chemicals, drugs, and surgery.
Alternative medicine, or, as I term it, "traditional" medicine, has at its roots the history and tradition of many cultures worldwide. Therapies that align with such traditions include nutrition, acupuncture, herbal medicine, ayurveda, and many hands-on therapies.
The common sense approach of Integrated Medicine includes four levels:
In summary, Integrated Medicine is the blending of these four aspects in an exploration of why a problem is developing and a focus on what you can do to change it.
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