Frequently Asked Questions

I offer telemedicine services in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

For functional and lifestyle medicine, my care tends to come from coaching, analyzing labs, and discussion of time about your child’s needs and lifestyle. There are aspects of your child’s physical exam that I may ask you to show me, and if needed, I can try to work out a way to meet with you in person.  However, telemedicine helps keep your costs lower by decreasing overhead and saves you the time of driving to my office, waiting in the waiting room, and hanging out in my office when you may not need to.  It also helps us both communicate more readily and more often. It also allows children in more rural areas to have access to my care. 

Not right now. At this time, I still travel to work in the pediatric ICU, and I would not have the day to day, in person availability you deserve to have in a primary pediatrician. Think of me as an added consultant to your child’s care.

While this is hard to study in the most rigorous, large, randomized controlled studies, there is growing evidence that the combination of our day-to-day lifestyle, microbiome, environmental toxins, chronic stress is affecting our long-term health as a nation, and even more so, the long-term health of our children.  I work hard to evaluate the evidence behind my recommendations and work with you to discuss the risks, benefits, and expected effects for any treatments that I offer. At this point in time, even for pharmaceuticals, the research is based on short term studies that rarely show the long-term effects of medications.