Masters of Health Magazine December 2021 | Page 67

Primary Care with a Natural Flair

Dr. Eric Plasker, DC

100 Year Lifestyle chiropractors have been providing primary care with a natural flair to their communities for decades. However, many people still don’t know that chiropractic care is primary care, and many people, such as the established medical community, just don’t want to believe it.

Let’s step back for a moment. Primary care is usually defined as the day-to-day healthcare given by a healthcare provider. Specifically, the primary care provider is the first and main point of contact for a person within a healthcare system. In the US and most western countries, the general practitioner has been supported by the established medical community as the unquestioned primary care provider. 

According to the Harvard Health Blog:

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are generalists who see adult patients for common ailments including respiratory infections, headaches, back pain, and urinary infections. They also manage chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, anxiety, and depression. In addition, PCPs have expertise in managing multiple treatments, medications, and the interactions between them. 

This illness centered approach to primary care, my friends, is how you enter into the never-ending world of polypharmacy, disease mongering, pain, expense, and fear.