How We Find Solutions

There are three major reasons why The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine finds solutions to longstanding conditions when other efforts have failed:

First, every member of the Kaplan team is highly qualified -- our physicians are board-certified in family medicine, pain medicine, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and/or medical acupuncture and they have years of proven success in providing integrative solutions to patients suffering with chronic pain and illness.

Second, our physicians take whatever time is needed at your initial appointment to be sure they fully understand the nature of your case. And at subsequent appointments, they take the time to thoroughly evaluate how you are responding to treatment. Whereas a typical doctor visit is only 10.7 minutes long,¹ our physicians spend 30-60 minutes with each patient at every appointment. This gives our doctors the critically important time they need to fully listen, probe and delve into problem areas that otherwise might be overlooked. The result: an accurate, comprehensive medical diagnosis and an effective, individualized treatment plan.

Third, we work as a highly coordinated, tightly integrated healthcare team. Depending upon your unique medical needs, your treatment plan may involve supplemental care such as physical therapy, nutritional counseling or stress management classes. On a regular basis, your case is jointly reviewed by all of the Kaplan Medical Center providers you see to ensure that your care is carefully coordinated. Additionally, the Center's entire medical team, led by the Medical Director, Dr. Gary Kaplan, meets bi-weekly to discuss patient cases. This allows for the full range of the Center's medical expertise to be brought to bear on your case.

In sum, we combine excellent medicine with a highly personal, time-intensive, and integrative approach. This allows us to find solutions to chronic pain and other longstanding illnesses that have previously eluded effective treatment. It's how The Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine helps you reclaim your life from pain and chronic illness and gets you on the path to your optimal health and wellness.

¹ Gottschalk, Andrew and Susan A. Flocke. " Time Spent in Face-to-Face Patient Care and Work Outside the Examination Room." Annals of Family Medicine. 3(2005) 488-493, 3 Jun 2008 http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/3/6/488.