What is Biomedicine?

Pediatrician Jerry Kartzinel, MD, explains the increasingly popular concept of biomedicine and what physicians who use biomedicine typically do in order to help them with an illness
What Is Biomedicine?
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What is Biomedicine?

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Biomedicine is increasing in popularity to describe physicians that actually look at the whole body. They look and ask the question, the child's sick all the time, okay. Why is the child sick all the time? Yes, we have to put him on an antibiotic to fix the pneumonia or fix the ear infection, but we can then also say, "While you are on the antibiotic, let's figure out why you are getting sick all of the time?" These doctors will also look at sleep mechanisms. They'll look at the GI tract. They will look at everything about the child, the child's gait, how the child's hair grows, the nails grow. By looking at that, finding mechanisms that may cause alterations or imperfections in those systems and make improvements, very often using natural medications. Sometimes they have to use traditional medications.

Pediatrician Jerry Kartzinel, MD, explains the increasingly popular concept of biomedicine and what physicians who use biomedicine typically do in order to help them with an illness

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Jerry Kartzinel, MD

Pediatrician

Dr. Jerry Kartzinel is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He specializes in the recovery of neurodevelopmental, chronic neuro-inflammatory diseases, and hormonal dysfunctions. After receiving his medical degree at St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his residency in pediatric medicine in the Air Force. Following Desert Storm, Dr. Kartzinel practiced general pediatrics in private practice for 10 years until his fourth boy was diagnosed with Autism.

A nationally recognized speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author, Dr. Kartzinel has presented medical interventions that work to improve the lives of his patients who suffer from many types of medical conditions that include: autism, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, sleep cycle disruptions, and hormonal imbalances. He regularly teaches Continuing Medical Educations courses on children's health issues to physicians and other health professionals.

His clinical approach is to treat the whole patient by carefully obtaining a full and complete history and based on this history, obtaining very detailed laboratory evaluations. Individualized plans are implemented integrating the very latest medical interventions that include both traditional and complimentary medicine approaches.

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Biomedicine is increasing in popularity to describe physicians that actually look at the whole body. They look and ask the question, the child's sick all the time, okay. Why is the child sick all the time? Yes, we have to put him on an antibiotic to fix the pneumonia or fix the ear infection, but we can then also say, "While you are on the antibiotic, let's figure out why you are getting sick all of the time?" These doctors will also look at sleep mechanisms. They'll look at the GI tract. They will look at everything about the child, the child's gait, how the child's hair grows, the nails grow. By looking at that, finding mechanisms that may cause alterations or imperfections in those systems and make improvements, very often using natural medications. Sometimes they have to use traditional medications.