Imbue Health brings a wholistic viewpoint to medicine and looks towards wellness as a focus instead of solely diagnosing disease states. We believe that disease is wellness out of balance. Medicine as we have practiced needs to change. The approach to the care of a patient and the concepts of disease and wellness deserve serious reconsideration. Caregivers must re-examine how we approach the care of our patients. New information in the field of medicine is exploding and it is exciting and daunting. It can breathe fresh air and open up opportunities to offer improved and innovative care to patients.
For medicine to continue to advance and thrive, for our healthcare system to avoid implosion, the focus of care has to shift. This shift must embrace wellness as its focus. The fundamental focus must embrace the concept of wellness and treating the whole patient and restoration of balance, even if this focus rests outside of traditional focus. A new lens offered by the branch of medicine, functional medicine, provides an approach to patient care with a wholistic focus for care. We must recognize when our patients are well and when they are unwell, we need to bring them back into balance.