"Illness struck Dr. Block personally during his early years of medical training. Being on the other end of the stethoscope, he encountered the difficulty and  helplessness of being a patient who found no lasting relief from the treatments of conventional medical science.  Despite the technology surrounding him, his bleeding ulcers and migraines continued.   Eventually he sought out therapies and philosophies that responded to him as a whole person. This experience was one of the most potent lessons of his medical training.

Discouragement turned to optimism and activism as he searched for the least invasive therapies to help heal his body. He began making lifestyle changes including careful adherence to a plant-based diet, which not only relieved his painful symptoms, but significantly enhanced his health.  Improving his own condition expanded his vision as a physician committed professionally to the careful evaluation of all healing potentials.

Together we sought the most promising complementary methodologies melded with an innovative approach to conventional protocols as a foundation, a firm support upon which the practice could build and serve. We challenged dogma and refined existing nutritional, psychosocial and physiological strategies, examining how they worked synergistically with advanced medical procedures. We redefined the health provider-patient relationship, engaging people in their own care. We were determined to build a practice that supported people through a compassionate, integrative clinical approach.

We worked together with our devoted staff to reconceptualize health, medicine and the process of recovery. We realized very quickly that there is no single, isolated approach to optimal health. Instead of viewing health as the mere absence of symptoms, we understood it as the dynamic presence of a balanced, vital state of being. To this end, we set about developing a full interweave of complementary and advanced approaches to medical care.

Keith's continuing investigation of nutritional pharmacology and biotherapy, as well as my own research in the psychosocial essentials of healing, has enabled our ongoing search for optimal treatments. Throughout this endeavor, we have been fortunate to have an exceptionally dedicated and skilled staff – physicians, researchers, health-care providers, administrators and patient advocates – working to bring a new standard of care to health. And we feel blessed with the opportunity of working in partnership with the many people who seek healing and recovery."