What Healing Means To Me
A Primer
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Introduction Welcome and Thank You! Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can Danny Kaye Welcome and thank you! This small book is an outline of a method and program that works. In my experience I have found that the majority of my patients need a plan that… • Is uniquely tailored to their specific problem(s), • Has a framework that is understandable, and • Is most importantly, doable. So what I have tried to do over the last 20 years is provide education, encouragement and guidance as a part of what I do. This book, and the companion workbook, serve as a guide to enable you, the reader, to gain a broad outline of my perspective on why balance is integral to healing on any and all levels. I am hopeful you will find this to be of use to you. I invite you to join me and begin an ongoing journey, as I share information regarding Balancing Your Health from an Holistic Integrative Medical perspective. Balance Our health is an intricate balance, largely determined by the choices we make and what destiny has in store for us. As I often tell my patients, I can guide you and hold your hand as you move towards ‘Balancing Your Health’—but ultimately the responsibility to walk the path and take action is yours. Although focusing on Root Cause(s) and Resolution is an important part of what we do, I know with certainty that without incorporating balance, the results might be good, but not great. This is termed R.C.C.&B©– Root Cause Resolution & Balance©. This involves an implicit understanding that one’s main issue has many facets, and though resolution is important, using a balanced approach is a great way to start. And start we must! Why Balance Rx© My Signature Program – Balance Rx© - has been developed and continues to evolve during the course of my clinical career. It is the framework that forms the foundation of what I do in my practice, every day. This program, uses 7 Keys, that each constitute an important segment of the whole, and each segment has at least 7 sections. Each of these segments and sections are considered and addressed with each individual. I have a very pragmatic side, and this is reflected in making the process and implementation of our program, especially doable. Education is a big deal and we do a lot of it! So, before we continue, I need you to pause, and be ready to take action in your life. There will be several calls to action in this book, and this is the first. I am by nature a pragmatist, since I sincerely believe that dreaming about ‘Balancing Your Health’ is important. But equally important is the doing. By this I mean, that taking action is fundamental to achieving those dreams! This book asks three questions, which provide an outline and structure with specific and definite answers. I can assure you that through the thousands of patients I have had the privilege of working with, I have found that this framework just works. I will outline the 3 essential questions, frame them in a particular order and provide context that I know will help you, • bring and define your WHY into being, • outline the framework of the WHAT, and • ultimately show you the WAY forward. As we proceed to the first chapter, and subsequently through the book, I will show and share with you, thoughts, ideas and information on Balance Rx© : our signature program canvas. So let’s get started!
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What Healing Means to Me: A Primer serves as a guide to enable the reader to understand in a broad outline Dr. Alexander Augoustides’s perspective on why balance and an active physician-patient relationship is integral to healing on any and all levels. His signature program Balance Rx© is the backbone on which this work has been developed and also serves as the framework that forms the foundation of what he and his staff do daily at Piedmont Integrative Medicine. This program uses seven keys that each constitute an important segment of the whole, and each segment has at least seven sections. Each of these segments and sections are considered and addressed by each individual. Dr. A lovingly challenges his reader with three foundational questions throughout the book. The purpose of asking these questions is to discover an outline and structure with answers that are both specific and definite. In a more specific sense, the three questions enable the reader to bring and define their why into being, outline the framework of the what, and ultimately show you the way forward. Through the thousands of patients Dr. A has had the privilege of working with, he has discovered that this Socratic approach just works.
About the Author
Alexander T. Augoustides, MD, ABIHM, FAAFP or simply “Dr. A” has been in private practice since 1993, and has a solid background in Family Medicine with a special interest in Holistic Integrative Medicine. Dr. A earned his medical degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and completed his residency at Marshall University School Of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, where he served as Chief Resident. Following this, he completed a family practice teaching fellowship program at ETSU in Johnson City, Tennessee. A practicing physician, Dr. Augoustides has continued the legacy of his clinic, Piedmont Integrative Medicine, PA, which was established in 1984 under the leadership of Dr. Walter A. Ward. Dr. A took over stewardship of the clinic in 2004. Over the last 20 years, he has journeyed both personally and professionally in balancing the health of his patients. This has been the foundation for the Balance Rx© program at Piedmont Integrative Medicine, PA. Outside of the practice, Dr. A enjoys photography in Reynolda Gardens, swimming and ocean kayaking, soaking up the sun on any NC beach, and attending church with his family. When asked what his life mantra is he usually replies, “I simply to go with the flow.”