Let the Public Speak!

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We hope you’re enjoying your experience with our website, we really enjoy sharing what we learn with you. AND on that note, you are equally as important to the equation of a successful health care system.

clinic facesNow, don’t be shy, this page is designed to give you, the patient, an opportunity to express your own personal experiences with health care that make you feel nurtured, supported, and, well, healthier! The big and small differences within our own lives can be inspirational, and why not share your inspiration with others on the Helfgott Blog?

The word blog, if you don’t know, is formed from the words web and log - it’s a web log. A blog is like a website with content that is fresh and compelling– many people use them as daily news sources, as places to learn about new or rapidly changing topics or as places to meet like-minded people. Our blog hopes to bring together diverse voices in conversation about natural health and your voice is one we would love to include. How can you help?

If you wish to participate, please provide a description of your experience with medicine or a time when you felt nurtured and supported by medicine in general. What was it like when you first made the decision to use this form of medicine? What was your first appointment like? As you have made progress in treatment, how has it felt?

You can email your submission to us, then we will highlight your comments on our blog. Your personal stories will be combined with content created by doctors, students, professors and others in the health care arena in order to provide a rich and compelling picture of what natural healthcare is about and where it’s going.

If you have any questions about this process– please feel free to submit directly or contact us.

And by all means visit us as soon as you’re able and tell us what you think!

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Mike from Atlanta, Georgia writes:

“Lately, there is a lot of information in the media about how the US ranks according to health care standards from around the globe. It’s surprising that despite how much money the US spends on health care, we still have many chronic health conditions.”

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Anonymous from Nazareth, Pennsylvania writes:

“This Frontline documentary called Sick Around the World is the clearest explanation I’ve ever seen that describes the differences in global health care systems and what those differences mean to the average health care consumer. You’d think that Canada and other Europeans systems are very similar and that’s not the case at all. In the US, we have numerous health care systems and it’ss dependent upon class-based dynamics: for our poor and impoverage populations, virtually no health care exists; our working poor have a system similar to Sri Lanka or India; and for our working class citizens it’s similar to Germany. Perhaps the reason it’s so unequal is because there are 4 or 5 different classifications of health care!”

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Archimedes Member from Eugene, Oregon writes:

Can you please post this inspirational information? Thank you.

Recently I attended the June 14th conference for the Archimedes Movement. During the conference portion of the event John Kitzhaber put up some information on the big screen about the Health Field Model. Afterwards I followed up with the research and found that the multifaceted approach to understanding health (like environment, behaviors, and social conditioning) helped me to see the bigger picture. To truly get to the bottom of this health care mess, we need to understand the interconnectedness of how these factors affect our health and decision making.

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”  -Peter Drucker

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