Dr. Rodier practices integrative medicine with the guidance of the following 10 Integrative Principles. They illustrate a holistic approach that emphasizes prevention, patient understanding & empowerment, and natural modalities of healing & nourishing the body & mind.
- Integration means that no one modality is placed ahead of another.
- Emphasizing prevention, nutrition, holistic principles, environmental/public health issues, massage, acupuncture and the mind/body/spirit connection is more conducive to addressing the causes of diseases.
- Pharmaceuticals and surgery are helpful, too, but overused. They treat the symptoms, not the causes of diseases, with many side effects.
- An illness is an imbalance of the whole person, not an isolated event.
- Patients are to be empowered to heal themselves. The greatest healing force is the patient-healer relationship: the unconditional power of love.
- Healers teach best by example.
- Illness and suffering are powerful teachers.
- The humanities, literature, history, etc are tools of healing and understanding.
- “Medicine is a social science and politics nothing but medicine in a larger scale. Physicians are the attorneys for the poor.” Virchow.
- “Food is the best medicine.” Hippocrates and Sir William Osler, M.D.