We have all been there: giving the nurse your symptoms, repeating them to the doctor, then mentioning it all over again at the drugstore. It’s quite draining. Integrated care is here to turn around that. Rather than flitting between strangers, you become the center of a team that really interacts. Click for source!
Whether your family doctor, therapist, or pharmacist, in more and more Utah offices they are not working alone. They work along. Your counselor won’t have to speculate on what your primary doctor believes if you have asthma and anxiety. They schedule drugs, evaluate how one illness can affect another, and even put you in touch with social workers who might assist with housing or food access if needed.
Imagine strolling in coughing and leaving not only with therapy but also with a flier for community yoga and improved knowledge of how your food influences your symptoms. Instead of five stops one stop. Give up repeating the same allergy narrative over and over. Integrated care has strength in the same way as putting every thread into one warm, useful quilt does.
While integrated care pulls everyone onto the same boat, traditional clinics can feel like ships sailing in the dark. Your diabetes educator and mental health counselor might be seen in one visit. That is now multitasking, really streamlining your life.
Here the difference is that you are not mired in the middle. One patient said her favorite aspect of Sacred Circle: not having to function as the middleman. Between several experts, she does not have to balance communications or updates. They are already in line and know.
Integrated care sees you as a whole person, not as a puzzle with missing pieces strewn over several rooms. Your clinic should treat you that way, from head to toe, inside and out—because every bit of you counts.