At the Marino Center , we strive to provide the best possible Primary Care medicine. For patients, this means:

• Establishing a strong relation to the PCP

• Whenever possible, seeing your PCP (not a secondary practitioner) for
  
  physicals AND when sick

• Reasonable availability for appointments

• TIME in appointments to address all issues

• Emphasis on screening and prevention, including immunizations and
  
  routine cancer and heart disease screens

• Discussion of the role of diet, exercise, stress, lifestyle and supplements in
  
  maintaining health

• Access to excellent specialists and hospitals for more serious illnesses

• Appropriate use of prescription medications when necessary

• Email contact available with PCP and office (in some cases)

Primary Care and CAM

Our Primary Care physicians, with few exceptions, do not PRACTICE specific areas of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). We do, however, have an unusual degree of knowledge and experience of most major areas of CAM, and have a level of comfort with recommending or referring to CAM practitioners not found in most conventional offices.

ON-SITE CAM practitioners who have a particularly close relationship to the PCP's include:

• Acupuncture / Traditional Chinese Medicine

• Chiropractic

• Massage therapy / Craniosacral therapy

• Qi Gong

In addition to these offerings, most PCP's at the Marino Center have a familiarity with other commonly-encountered CAM therapies such as energy work, Reiki, Tai Chi, certain types of Biofeedback, etc, and have access to names of non-Marino practitioners they might provide to patients under appropriate circumstances. We generally do NOT support but may be familiar with the philosophy of less reliable or proven therapies such as muscle testing, iridology, medical intuitives, crystals, etc.