In my practice the most common patient concerns are fatigue, trouble with sleep, and anxiety. It is actually rare for a patient to complain about depression, but many of these patients are offered anti-depressants by their physicians. They often ask me if there are...
In the last few weeks I have seen a 9 year old with frequent colds, a middle aged man with depression, tight hamstrings and debilitating knee pain, a menopausal woman with fatigue and anxiety and an overweight woman with insomnia. Each of these individuals has seen at...
What is a person to do? Most of my patients are aware of the risks of bone fracture with aging. The statistics are indeed pretty frightening. Fractures in old age are the kind of thing that sends us to bed and from which we may never get up. Most women routinely get...
The following interview with Dr. Sharp and Kathleen Williams was published in the August 2010 issue of Health & Healing in the Triangle. For many, the way practitioners view the function of the human body is a critical health issue. To explore the meaning and...
We named our blog Whole Medicine because we think the name conveys a sense of the process we intend for our practice. I began my journey into Whole Medicine after many years as a pediatrician, when I developed ‘prescription fatigue.’ I became a student of...