Melbourne Wholistic Medicine, Ormond, VIC

Melbourne Wholistic Medicine is a philosophy of medical care that encourages responsibility and participation in one's own health care. Patients are encouraged where possible to accept responsibility for restoring their own health. The doctor patient relationship is based on a partnership, where both work together to achieve a common goal. Wholistic Medicine or holistic medicine combines conventional medical and alternative therapies Focuses on the whole person, not just the sick part Believes that healing is a natural phenomenon Works in partnership with the patient to restore health Works to strengthen the power of the mind Strives to improve the physical, as well as the emotional and spiritual being Treats each person as an individual AHMA - Principles of Wholistic Medical Practice: 1. Wholistic physicians embrace a variety of safe, effective options in diagnosis and treatment, including: a) education for lifestyle changes and self-care; b) complementary approaches c) conventional drugs and surgery 2. Searching for the underlaying cause of disease is preferable to treating symptoms alone. 3. Wholistic physicians expend as much effort in establishing what kind of patient has a disease as they do in establishing what kind of disease a patient has.4. It is preferable to diagnose and treat patients as unique individuals rather than as members of a disease category. Dr Abe Mass graduated from Melbourne University in 1979, and obtained honours levels both in Medicine and Surgery. He has been working at the practice since 1982 and has a special interest in paediatrics and counselling. He is married with 3 children and enjoys playing tennis - when he finds the time.Dr Mass is a Board Member of the Australian Integrative Medical Association (AIMA) and was recently named 'Business Person of the Year, 2002 by the Rotary Club of Glen Eira.

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