Wellness and Preventative Health, with Dr. Tara Scott

<h1>Functional Medicine Providers: What You Will Learn:</h1> <ul> <li>Why Dr. Scott made the transition from traditional medicine to functional medicine</li> <li>What <strong>functional medicine providers</strong> can do to help fix the broken medical system</li> <li>Dr. Scott’s approach to preventative healthcare in functional medicine</li> <li>Why traditional medicine tends to disregard the dysfunction of human beings</li> <li>“Sickcare” vs. healthcare in the United States</li> <li>Why it is difficult to run a successful FM practice if you are just in it for the money</li> <li>How non-medical practitioners should interact with difficult medical providers</li> <li>The importance of self-care and mental health as a functional medicine practitioner</li> </ul> <h2>Preventative Healthcare in Functional Medicine</h2> <p>Dr. Tara Scott is the Medical Director of Integrative Medicine at Summa Health in Akron, OH, and the Chief Medical Officer and founder of Revitalize Medical Group, a wellness practice. She has lived as a patient and seen the benefit of functional medicine providers finding answers to the core issues. Dr. Scott has over 20 years of experience practicing OB/GYN, and additional training in Integrative and Functional Medicine as well. She is triple board certified in OB/GYN, Functional Medicine, and Integrative Medicine. And in this episode of The FM Shift, Dr. Scott joins us to share a wealth of information about wellness and preventative health for patients.</p> <h3>From Clinical Physicians to Functional Medicine Providers</h3> <p>When interviewing functional medicine providers who made the transition from allopathic medicine to functional medicine, there is usually a profound arc in their journeys. Dr. Scott believes one of the reasons for this is because when clinically trained physicians learn how the system works, they begin to understand what is broken and why. Her brother passed away at the young age of thirty-eight after a heart attack associated with smoking, diabetes, stress, and a handful of o