Nuba Health is Here.

Quite a dramatic headline but for me it is a big deal. I started this practice to form real relationships with patients and not worry about all the nonsense that serves to make so much of U.S. healthcare a tragic mess: EMRs, bureaucracy, mammoth corporations that care more about their branding than people.

Health care in America is expensive, impersonal and profit-based, which is a lucrative but unsustainable model. You shouldn’t put a price on someone’s life; they’ll always pay. But that’s precisely the situation we are in. Moreover, the vast profits made by health care companies come from treating chronic illnesses rather than preventing them. In America, there’s no money in prevention.

As a result, most primary care physicians are burned-out clinicians who have little to no control over their relationships with patients. Volume and billings, not compassion and service, dictate their daily work. And they are trapped: after years of education and sacrifice, many cannot take the risk of working for themselves. Even less so nowadays, as small practice after small practice is gobbled up by health care conglomerates, and the independent doctor who is also a friend becomes a thing of the past.

My practice is an attempt to give patients a meaningful alternative to corporate medicine. I focus on prevention and improvement rather than a different pill or additional surgery. Human beings are inherently healthy. The body and mind are exquisite organisms that in general need very little intervention to heal and thrive. Stress, isolation and lack of knowledge underlie most of the health problems in America today. My mission is to change that, one patient at a time.