Here are some answers to frequently asked questions
about our practice.
Appointments are scheduled in 20" time slots.
The visits are consultations in which the majority of time is spent
understanding and managing your overall health needs. While the visit can be prioritized to a specific
topic, primary care is best attended to by your family doctor, internist or
pediatrician, or a
Appointments
are generally made at intervals of every 6-12 weeks because the body requires
time to detoxify and heal. This practice does not focus on acute care as much
as long-term healing, rejuvenation, and solutions to chronic long-standing
problems. That does not mean nothing happens in between, rather it is your
responsibility to make the lifestyle changes and observations that are critical
to your success. Urgent appointments are often available if you call and ask to
fill in a cancelled appointment.
Our
website is now secure enough for us to receive E-mail. While we want to
encourage you to use this avenue to communicate with us, respect it. It saves us time on the phone re-writing your
questions, updates, etc. Your e-mail gives us a hard copy for your chart and a
way for me to respond to you directly. I hope that you will honor our time in
directing the e-mail to the proper person. For matters that only Dr. Kaslow can
address, e-mail him at drkaslow@drkaslow.com. Please do not send your email as an
attachment (Word, etc), this takes longer to read and to respond. With the
increase in viruses being sent through the internet, attachments are high risk
for corrupting our computer network.
Lengthy emails are typically responded to last since they require more
time. For billing related matters, e-mail billing@drkaslow.com. For anything related to supplements
such as re-orders or questions, arrival times, back-orders, e-mail supplements@drkaslow.com.
Marlena
is an outstanding phlebotomist so we can draw laboratory specimens in
our office. She is fast and friendly. Since we spend a lot of time trying to
track down labs, giving you the right kits, making sure the proper specimen
gets done, we have arranged to have the labwork done downstairs. We will also
help do your billing so there is hopefully less hassle for you as well. Blood
draws are done Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. You don't need an
appointment but please give us to a call to let us know you are coming in.
Remember to not eat anything after dinner the night before if you have been
advised to fast for the test.
Although
some patients have been reimbursed for supplements that have been
prescribed and purchased through our office, it requires a great deal of work
on your part. You must talk directly with your insurance carrier (usually
repeatedly) to explain that you are intolerant to other forms of therapy and
that you have derived significant and objective benefit for the first and only
time from these specific agents. They usually require that they are
specifically prescribed for you and not available except through a health
professional. We will not provide any further letters or records, etc. other
than a simple generic letter that has not been helpful in the past. You will
still need to pay at the time you receive your supplements, we will not bill
insurance even if they begin paying for them.
There are five main
foundations of a successful approach to health:
There
are three basic types of events that seem to interfere with healing: 1)
Physical trauma such as surgery, childbirth, car accident, bone fracture,
biopsy, etc; 2) Infection such as from immunizations, severe infections such as
a bad virus, dental abscess, etc; and 3) An emotional event such as a death, abandonment,
abuse, etc.
Neural
Therapy removes "interference fields" and allows healing of these
refractory conditions. The underlying reason is that the Autonomic Nervous
System controls everything, even your biochemistry and hormones. Neural Therapy
"resets" the autonomic nervous system, which is in turn the master
control of your health. Neural Therapy is usually covered by insurance. For
more information, see the webpage on Neural
Therapy.
In
focusing on the nervous system, we try to balance and harness the control it
has over all aspects of living - biochemical, hormonal, immune, and now
emotions. Emotions are under the control of the nervous system - the
unconscious nervous system. So when you are told that it's all in your head, there
is some truth to it. How to fix it is the controversy. Too often Prozac, herbs,
anti-depressants, psychotherapy, etc. don't work - at best you seem to cope
better.
Our
aim is to use techniques other than the core of the problem. For example,
unlinking or re-programming your emotions to your physical response so that
your nervous system works on the same team as the rest of you. There are
specific connections between our emotions and our physical body, they probably
involve acupuncture meridians. It seems that specific locations on your body
are receptors to the outside world. Just as your eyes are for vision, your ears
are hearing, your nose for smelling, etc. these special sensory sites are
receptors for what is called subtle energy. "Subtle energy" includes
things you know are there but are not felt physically - like radiowaves,
magnetism, etc. For many it is also a spiritual matter - like prayer. There is
no question they exist, we just take them for granted or we do not appreciate
them because we don't understand them. Homeopathy and acupuncture are examples.
Using
subtle energy at specific locations in a specific sequence has been used
successfully and there is convincing evidence that it impacts the nervous
system. There is great healing potential in this modality. Our nutritional therapist has been trained in
specific healing techniques that rapidly get to the crux of the problem and
help you re-program yourself to be free of these maladaptive subconscious
responses.
Working
together we can accomplish many things. Our goal is to guide you, enable you,
and assist you in attaining and maintaining the best possible health.
03/2006