The idea for starting Balanced Rejuvenation Integrative Medical Center of St. Petersburg came about almost five years ago. It came about as I noticed a “Disconnect” with the traditional treatments and how, in some cases, they were not fully optimizing my patients’ health and well-being. Therefore, the mission of this medical practice is to help people in a fully integrative way that I was not able to implement just using my traditional medical training. I can think of so many times (before I learned of Anti-Aging Medicine) where patients would come in to the office and had several of the symptoms of hormone imbalance listed on my website… and I didn’t have a lot to offer them. As physicians, we were not trained in medical school or residency to treat the patient on an “Aging Continuum” in a comprehensive manner. We were basically shown how to placate the symptoms of hormone imbalance and to do this mostly with synthetic and/or non-natural hormones that we know can do more harm than good. Since I started my journey exploring Anti-Aging Medicine, I have had several of those “Ah-Ha” moments where it all clicks… Where I now can integrate what I was taught traditionally through the course of my medical training with the knowledge base from the Anti-Aging Medical world to better help my patients optimize their overall wellbeing and set them up for a long, healthy life filled with vitality.
This practice is also about “Personlized Medical Care”, and strays from the cookie cutter types of practices that our large hospital-based physician employed organizations create. It’s easier for the administrators to conduct the “business end” of these physician groups if all of the physicians do everything “the exact same way”. If you are a physician in this type of group, and you have a niche or passion for a certain area of medicine, it is often a long, drawn out battle to make your practice reflect that area of interest. This is because it is too difficult for the powers that be to generate overall comparisons and projections across the entire group, if everyone is doing something different. The end result is a “One Size Fits All” model for physicians, and thus for patients. I STRONGLY disagree with this model. Medicine, no matter how scientific and evidence based it becomes…is still an art. There needs to be creativity and uniqueness in the Physician-Patient interaction in order to fully optimize that relationship and to develop the best treatment plan for that patient. Furthermore, I got into medicine to treat my patients with the “whole body” approach. This is not something that can be done when we are running patients in and out every 15 minutes like an assembly line in a factory. We all deserve more than that. And it is my goal to help each and every one of my patients to achieve their fullest Wellness Potential.
In Health,
Dr. Ohms