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Integrative Internal Medicine

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“The key is to know when to pick which remedy to work. The difference between so-called conventional practice and integrative is that in integrative medicine, our foundation is conventional, but we have other tools.”

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Dr. Woodson Merrell
44 East 67th Street
New York , NY 10065
212.535.1012
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Woodson Merrell, MD

Woodson Merrell, M.D., is Chairman of the Department of Integrative Medicine, and Executive Director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing, Beth Israel Medical Center, of the Mt. Sinai Health System in New York. He is also visiting assistant professor of family and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a practicing physician and an internationally recognized authority on Integrative Medicine, the medicine of the future that utilizes life-style and the best of conventional and complementary practices to treat the whole person. His most recent book, The Detox Prescription (Rodale), is available in stores and online. You can learn more and connect with Dr. Merrell by following him on Twitter, becoming a fan on Facebook or visiting his website.

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  1. “Every successful person has learned to handle stress well. It's those with a positive outlook on stressful situations who decrease their risk of heart disease, whereas those with increased rage from stress have increased risk of heart disease.”
  2. “The key is to know when to pick which remedy to work. The difference between so-called conventional practice and integrative is that in integrative medicine, our foundation is conventional, but we have other tools.”
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