Functional Medicine Evaluation Process
INITIAL CONTACT
After contacting us, by phone or email, you will get a call to discuss your desires and expectations. We will begin the process of learning more about you, obtaining past records, and start building your health profile.
YOUR PART
We will send you questionnaires so you can provide health history and timing of your past, and your current concerns. This will provide the basics of that profile and organize your events in a time sequence. Hopefully we can get copies of your past medical records prior to your doctor visit.
DOCTOR VISIT
Next is an in-person visit with Dr. Freeman which will last about 2 hours, which will include examination of important physical findings. Your health profile will be reviewed in depth, giving you a chance to make sure that our information is well understood and corrected, as necessary. We will discuss appropriate lab tests and schedule them, which usually requires some preparation, such as fasting. You may be given some therapeutic advice based on what is learned so far.
LAB TESTS
After your doctor visit, labs studies can be scheduled. These will be different for each individual patient; the cost of the labs are dependent on which tests are done, and are in addition to Dr. Freeman’s fee. Sometimes your lab results may raise questions that require additional labs
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRESCRIPTION
After the lab results are available, usually 3 weeks or less, you can be scheduled for a visit that can be in-person or remote. This is planned for 30 minutes to provide you with recommendations for lifestyle factors, including a nutritional plan. Sometimes nutritional supplements are recommended. Sometimes a consultation with a nutritionist is advised.
FIRST FOLLOW-UP
About 3 weeks after you have your Functional Medicine prescription, we will schedule a phone visit. It is assumed that you will have questions. We recommend that you write down your questions to have them available for this phone visit. This completes our initial evaluation.
All the above is included in the initial fee
Additional Follow-Up Visists
3 MONTH / 6 MONTH FOLOW-UP
It is highly recommended that you maintain contact with the Freeman Center as you utilize and become familiar with the lifestyle factors recommended for you. It may be that our initial Functional Medicine prescription needs to be modified. We have found that 3 and 6 month intervals have been most useful. These are planned to be 45 minute visits, either face-to- face or remote. There is an additional cost for these visits.
MAXIMAL HEALTH & PREVENTION
We hope that you will continue to use what you have learned to progressively lead to your maximal health. We believe that you can improve any chronic condition that you currently have and encourage prevention of poor health issues as time goes on. We suggest annual re-evaluation as a means to that end.