Functional medicine is a personalized, patient-centered, science-based approach to healing that focuses on the interconnectedness of all of our systems for example gut inflammation leading to neuroinflammation and mental health disorders to address root causes of disease, especially chronic diseases.
Root causes can include nutritional triggers, environmental toxins, gastrointestinal inflammation, hormone imbalances, physical and emotional stress, and genetic predisposition —just to name a few. However, root causes can be a combination of these or other factors. A detailed list of the conditions that we work with can be found here. Including a four-year residency, Dr. Nussbaum has been treating children for 13 years. As a board-certified pediatrician, she has been working with children from newborns through age Yes, as a board-certified internist, Dr.
Nussbaum has been working with adults of all ages, from 18 years old to all ages of senior citizens. She does not believe in an arbitrary age cut-off for providing care.
She chose to train in both pediatrics and internal medicine so that she could work with people across the age spectrum. Their algorithms decide whether a lab test, imaging study or treatment is necessary for you instead of letting you and your doctor make that decision together! Although patients are paying the cost of insurance, insurance companies do not give the patient access to the actual prices the insurance companies pay for those services.
We wanted to take control of our time spent with the individuals and families we work with and have the autonomy to provide the excellent care that everyone deserves. When making an appointment at Medford Functional Medicine, all costs are transparent. You can talk directly to your physician on the phone, send a text, or email. Especially with functional medicine, we really need to understand the details of your life. In insurance-billed visits, physicians spend on average minutes with a patient, and often much less time for pediatric visits.
