Mission | Background | Approach

Mission

We provide holistic, integrated health care offering all that is available to support the body's natural healing. I use both traditional American medicine, and other approaches including clinical nutrition, functional medicine, herbs, homeopathy, dietary approaches, supplements, exercise, psychotherapy, and advise about acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, etc. I believe patients should be knowledgeable and educated about their own bodies, and their own health care, and actively participate in creating their own healthy mind, body, and spirit.

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Dr. Mary Claire Wise's Background

• Graduated from Yale School of Medicine, 1980
• 20 years of clinical experience
• Board Certified in Family Medicine
• Board Certified in Holistic Medicine
• Certified in Clinical Nutrition
• Certified in Homeopathy
• Studied Herbal Medicine with Dr. Andrew Weil
• Has taken over 24 workshops in alternative and complementary medicine
• Medical Associate for LaLeche League (advocates breast feeding)
• Has backed up mid-wives for home births
• Is a clinical instructor at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Has been recognized by the American Academy of Family Physicians as an Active Teacher in Family Practice
• Was named a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians in 1993
• Has received a Physician’s Recognition Award by the American Medical Association in 1991
• Has lectured to other medical doctors about integrating alternative and complementary medicine into primary care practice
• Has published research in the Journal of Cell Biology
• Was Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Parallel, Inc. (a support organization for women with child bearing losses)

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Approach To Health Care

Dr. Wise is familiar with almost all the alternative approaches to health care, that patients have asked her about. She is open to looking into new approaches that patients have information about, and letting you know her opinion. She wants to make available to patients all the approaches to health care that are safe and effective. She is very knowledgeable in approaches that support the body's natural healing systems. These approaches are very helpful for many chronic conditions such as:

• Allergies
• Anxiety
• Arthritis
• Asthma
• Chronic Fatigue
• Dysbiosis
• Fibromyalgia
• Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Headache
• Hepatitis C
• Hypoglycemia
• Hypothyroidism
• Irritable Bowel
• Syndrome Depression
• Obesity
• PMS
• Syndrome X
• Weight Management

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