by Guest Blogger Steve Amoils, M.D. & Sandi Amoils, M.D. Have you noticed how the onset of an illness can herald a cascading downward spiral of even more illnesses? Or that someone may get sick and then pretty much give up on life? In our practice as integrative medicine physicians, we have seen how our patients can learn [...]

by Guest Bloggers Steve Amoils, M.D. & Sandi Amoils, M.D. Do you think of the art of medicine as something that is static, or do you believe it evolves? Do you believe we should concentrate only recent scientific inquiry, or do you think that traditional medicine that has evolved over centuries has some validity?  From our [...]

by Guest Bloggers Steve Amoils, M.D. & Sandi Amoils, M.D. Do you suffer from symptoms that doctors can’t seem to explain? Many of the patients we see at the Alliance Institute for Integrative Medicine in Cincinnati come to us after seeing many other doctors. These patients have a variety of chronic health problems that don’t improve, despite time and [...]

by Guest Blogger Terry L. Wise, J.D. I smoothed the mentholated cream over his cheeks and delicately swept the razor across his face at well-rehearsed angles.  My fingers twirled through his hair, foaming the shampoo before carefully rinsing it off his skeletal frame.  I patted him dry, lifted him back into his wheelchair, and rolled him over to the [...]

by Guest Blogger Terry L. Wise, J.D. On Christmas morning of 2000, I swallowed 200 Percosets and 60 doses of Morphine with a pint of gin.  Two days later I woke up and found myself in ICU and then on the liver transplant of a nearby hospital.  There is an enzyme in your liver called an [...]

by Guest Blogger Terry L. Wise, J.D. I was a newlywed and I could hardly wait to die. I am a living example of the unseen consequences of caregiving, as well as how the signs of clinical depression and being suicidal can be completely missed by even the closest of family members and friends. Weeks before [...]