Understanding Telephone Consulting

So that Dr. Lowe could communicate unfettered with  patients and clinicians, he voluntarily surrendered his clinical license on January 1, 2010. Because of this, he is by choice no longer a licensed clinician. According to Dr. Lowe, "Rather than limiting my  ability to help people who consult with me, I've liberated myself from limitations imposed by licensure as a chiropractic physician." Dr. Lowe now fully concentrates on metabolic research and education. As part of his educational activities, he consults by telephone and email with patients and clinicians. Dr. Lowe strongly believes that education, or reeducation, is a prerequisite to most people achieving and maintaining optimal health. In his consulting relationships, his main aim is to help people learn what they need to do to overcome their health problems, and how best to go about overcoming them. In consulting with you, he'll consider your relevant health history, exam findings, test results, responses to treatment, and your questions. He'll then provide information with the intent of helping you understand what he believe you need to know to move forward in a constructive direction. Some patients who consult by telephone with Dr. Lowe are working to improve their health on their own, without the help of local health care practitioners. Most are using diet, nutritional and herbal supplements, exercise, and some are using one or more medications. Dr. Lowe strongly encourages patients to continually work at their own self-guided health recovery and maintenance program. Through consulting, he assists them in several ways: by answering their questions, helping them set reasonable goals, suggesting how to improve their treatment and health maintenance programs, and by helping them identify and remove obstacles to their improvement and recovery. Other patients have disorders that require treatment by health care practitioners. If this is true of you, Dr. Lowe assumes that you have a local health-care practitioner who is primarily responsible for your care. The educational information he gives you is intended to aid you and your local clinician. He often helps the patient and his or her local clinician troubleshoot a treatment plan that isn't working well for the patient. He also gives patients resources they need. He give his opinion on lab tests that the patient may need. And if necessary, he may point the patient to labs that low patients to order their own lab tests. He also may give patients resources where they can obtain products they may need.