Our work as physicians and healers is to see the whole patient

<p>"Instead of focusing on one organ system, I want to know everything. The diagnostic challenge is to discern patterns of insults, symptoms, and lab tests that correlate with specific microbes, specific organ dysfunction, specific diet issues, and environmental exposures. We keep asking questions until we detect patterns in the chronically ill patient that correlate with any number of overlapping issues such as infections, hormone deficiencies, immune dysregulation, toxic exposures, and diminished capacity to detoxify. And then we explore the interrelationship of all these problems. Differentiation then integration."</p> <p><a href="https://recoveryfromlyme.com/author" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daniel Kinderlehrer</a> is a physician and author of <a href="https://amzn.to/3brdkcx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Recovery from Lyme Disease: The Integrative Medicine Guide to Diagnosing and Treating Tick-Borne Illness</a>.</p> <p>He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/our-work-as-physicians-and-healers-is-to-see-the-whole-patient.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Our work as physicians and healers is to see the whole patient</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/our-work-as-physicians-and-healers-is-to-see-the-whole-patient.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/our-work-as-physicians-and-healers-is-to-see-the-whole-patient.html</a>)</p>