and integrative
medicine

Kimberly Aikens MD





Clinical Pearls


Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

Andrew Weil MD

  

PHILOSOPHY


The philosophy of Pursuit Health is one of facilitated healing in which the partnership between patient and health care provider is of paramount importance. Although in many situations cure may not be possible, healing always is. We believe that healing is a process in which the quality of one's interior life is as important as exterior manifestations of health. We are all in need of healing. It can be a life's work for patient and health care practitioner alike. Mind, body and spirit are all important in the pursuit of better health and need to be equally examined. We believe that the body has an intrinsic capacity to heal and it is our desire to help you in what ultimately can become a journey to self discovery and wholeness.

We define healing as those physical, mental, social and spiritual processes of recovery, repair, renewal and transformation that increase wholeness and often (though not invariably) order and coherence. Healing is an emergent process of the whole system and may or may not involve curing.