Jeremy Steiner, MD, PhD, DAOM

My great-uncle was our pediatrician, and walking into his office never felt like a doctor's visit. He knew our names, our histories, and what worried our mothers before anyone said a word. That's the type of medicine I wanted to practice.

For years I practiced that way, as an acupuncturist and integrative practitioner with doctoral research in bioelectric medicine, the study of the electricity your cells use to heal. My patients ranged from complex autoimmune disease to executives and athletes who wanted more out of their bodies, and the work was always the same underneath: find what's driving it, and treat that.

But I kept hitting a wall. I could spend a whole visit explaining why broccoli would do more for a patient than another prescription added on, and they'd nod, thank me, go home, and order a pizza. The advice was right. It just didn't come from an MD, so it didn't stick. The same wall showed up with medications. When my acupuncture treatment brought someone's blood pressure down, I couldn't be the one to lower the dose. They'd go back to a prescriber who had no idea what we'd been doing. The patient was always the one stuck in the middle.

So I went to medical school to do all of it myself, and now as their physician I can get them to eat broccoli. When a treatment starts working, I'm the one who can reduce their medication to match.

What I'm building is the kind of practice that would make my great-uncle proud: a doctor who knows your whole family and actually has time for you. I keep it small on purpose, because that's the only way to know you the way he knew us. I treat my patients as if they are my family.

If that's the kind of doctor you're looking for, let's talk.