Your Investigative Physician Specialist, Not Your Primary Care

Written By: Maddie Wing & Monique Martin

What Does Dr. Martin Do?

For over 25 years, Dr. Martin has been an unwavering advocate for her patients. With her extensive Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine fellowship background, Dr. Martin’s methodology is multidisciplinary, all encompassing, and includes treating the patient's body, mind, and spirit.

As a specialist, her expertise is in the integration of conventional, functional and holistic medicine. Dr. Martin is an investigative physician and believes in elucidating and understanding root causes of disease. She empowers her patients to engage in the body’s natural healing ability in conjunction with modern medical therapies. From the initial consultation, Dr. Martin focuses on taking the time to get to know her patient, understand their concerns and create a comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. It is vital to fully ascertain the issues and root causes to develop a treatment plan that is least invasive, attainable, most effective and successful. Due to Dr. Martin’s speciality as an investigative physician she is not a Primary Care Provider.

What Is A Primary Care Provider?

A Primary Care Provider otherwise known as a PCP, is a medical professional such as a Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician's Assistant who evaluates and treats an array of illnesses and injuries. This is the person you see for your yearly check-ups, preventative care and immunizations, to receive urgent treatment, and to get an initial work up for an issue. A PCP should be seen as the “first line of defense” to address your care. Dr. Martin is a perfect option when more investigation is necessary.

Why Do You Need A PCP?

It is absolutely crucial to have a Primary Care Physician. Life is uncertain, tomorrow you may get a skin rash, test positive for COVID, or come down with a common cold. A PCP can address all of these urgent matters and provide you with the care you need at that time as well as engage in general health maintenance.

When Do You Need A Specialist?

A Specialist assists in the management of complex chronic conditions and provides a diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases. A specialist, such as Dr. Martin can diagnose acute conditions that a PCP may not, such as metabolic disorders, hormone complexities, unusual autoimmune diseases, environmental toxicity, and more sophisticated issues. A specialist dissects the complexity of your diagnosis (or unknown diagnosis) and provides greater insight into your personalized evaluation and treatment.

Why Can’t Dr. Martin Be My PCP?

Dr. Martin is a specialist. Except in unusual circumstances, she is unable to see patients for urgent matters or health maintenance. For the safety of her patients it is critical they have a PCP to receive treatment as soon as possible as well as assist in general health maintenance.

How Might I Benefit From An Evaluation By Dr. Martin?

Dr. Martin looks outside of the box and carefully curates a personalized approach. She takes time to listen and truly understand your diagnosis. She digs into the root cause and addresses it head-on. She uses innovative functional diagnostic lab work and addresses diagnoses that conventional medicine ignores or may not recognize. Her treatment integrates conventional medicine with alternative medicine, and prefers the least invasive and most effective modalities which may include prescribing pharmaceuticals. She empowers the patient and serves to restore health and vitality. As a health advocate, she strives to provide the best care possible while treating her patients like family every step of the way.