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I’m not one to be easily impressed, but I found Dr. Kim’s approach to be thoroughly impressive. She’s brilliant.
I found Dr. Kim to be an exceptional physician in several ways. To begin with, her reassuring bedside manner is imbued with the warmth of natural ease and calm confidence. She makes it incredibly easy to discuss matters with her, and at no point in the appointment did I detect the doctor-patient power differential. It was a very healthy communicative dynamic where I felt completely at ease, heard, seen, understood, acknowledged and validated. She genuinely wanted to understand my experience and struggles with what has been ailing me. She assumed nothing and listened to me with great care and attention, and asked all the right and significant questions. She didn’t miss a beat, not a single one.
She’s exceptionally bright, insightful and possesses a diagnostic prowess that is uncanny. She took the time to properly assess my current… ongoing issues, and as equally and as thoroughly went over my medical history, labs and other diagnostics at great length. I’ve been suffering from a series of complex health issues that have turned chronic, and none of the many top-notch doctors I had seen prior to her even came close to giving me the sense of clarity and empowerment that she has—esp. in terms of being able to tell me this is what you’re facing, it is addressable, can be overcome, and here are some clear options, in terms of approaches to treatment, and here’s why. She did ????
She even held space for me to be able to express my very real, well-founded fears and frustration, and took the time to address them with immense sensitivity and subtlety in her verbal and non-verbal language, and succeeded in putting those fears to rest, whilst rendering me with the courage to face what is to come with resilience and an a positive attitude and outlook. She’s truly inspirational. I felt an immense admiration and respect for her ability in being able to do so. Most physicians miserably fail in this area.
Her integrative, holistic approach came as a huge relief because it meant she was making her assessments through multiple lenses to gain an well-rounded perspective on how to cure me from my ails. She openly discusses the modalities she’s employing in her assessment and approach with you, so you’re the loop and in the know. This enables you to gain and develop an understanding of your bioindividual health dynamics. Her approach addressed me in my entirety as a whole person—addressing not only my physical ails, but also my wellbeing in terms of mental and emotional health, and the significant contributive factors from the social, energetics and spirit-affirming perspectives, known to impact one’s health and disease manifestations.
By the end of the session she had throughly explained to me how the disease manifestations has likely all begun in my particular case, the likely root causes (that begun in my childhood with multiple rounds of antibiotics over several years, compromising the health and function of my gut, digestion, metabolism, immune system etc.), and how that led to where I am currently within the trajectory of my chronic disease manifestations.
I felt the burden I had been carrying around before that first appointment with her almost completely lift of my shoulders by the end of the appointment with her. (I use almost because chronic ails take time to reverse). I had walked into her office carrying with me the burden of being failed by the prior medical systems and approaches—they had failed to provide me with an real answers or solutions, and it had left me experiencing hopelessness, helplessness, powerlessness, confusion and an aimless ambiguity, that had crept in over the years which often come in response to battling chronic conditions.
By end of my first appointment with Dr. Kim, I felt I could finally breathe with ease again, the stress and tension in my body began to
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