If there were a primary care provider in your area who took a holistic and functional approach to medicine would you go? Would it make a difference if they took BTC too or would that just be a plus?
Asking for a friend. Thanks in advance
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Yes. Even a nurse practitioner with this approach would be immensely desirable. Of course BTC acceptance would be a plus. Sound health and sound money go together.
It would be a plus, but I'd pay nearly however they would prefer if they were good enough to warrant the pay.
Yes 💯
Yes in theory, though I haven't gone to the dr for years so I'm not sure how often it would come up.
Bitcoin would actually be a huge plus, though; I want to be transacting with people who are building the system I want to live in.
Taking BTC is a major factor in me purchasing goods/services from anywhere. But for healthcare specifically, their relationship to my insurer matters a lot more. I generally steer away from anybody with holistic in their practice name since it's used by a lot of quacks who don't use scientifically-validated medicine, even if the concept itself is sound and needs better representation in modern medicine.
So you don't believe in a whole body approach just have medications address the issue? What am I missing?
That's why I added the caveat of saying the concept itself is sound and needs better representation in medicine. Holistic approaches are the only approaches to health that make sense. Unfortunately, many people who use that label to describe their practice just push supplements with little to no scientific backing to their claims or encourage their clients to avoid proven medical interventions to try the "natural" way at the expense of the patient's health.
"Mainstream medicine" (and science) has its problems, but many people I have met who are into "holistic" health have over-corrected to the point of being worse. I'm probably not your target audience, but that's what I hear when I hear that label.
Fair enough that's why I asked
