Does Anyone Know of a Holistic Pediatrician in the Raleigh Area?

Have you googled this? I'm in California and none of my kids' docs have ever been "quick to pull out the prescription pad." Because they are doctors. Good, EDUCATED doctors.

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i don't live in raleigh NC.
khairete
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Check out http://www.holisticmoms.org/, you might find other moms with the same interests.

No matter what doctor you choose "you" are your child's advocate and have the final say in how and what treatments your child should receive.

I actually think you'll do better asking friends in your area, even using Facebook where friends of friends may make recommendations. Using a national forum like Mamapedia for something so specific is likely to be fruitless.

I'd suggest you elaborate more on "holistic" - are you looking for someone who never uses medications? Be sure you think ahead re vaccinations because, if you are planning to avoid them, you may have trouble finding a pediatrician who will see you at all, and if you use a totally holistic doctor who doesn't vaccinate, you will have a lot of problems finding preschools and elementary schools who will accept your kids (not sure how old your kids are so I may be covering topics that don't apply to you). If you're looking for someone who is open to things like comprehensive supplementation or alternative therapies (chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki, etc.), you have to discuss it - I have found quite a few "regular" MDs who are very well informed and supportive on these issues (plenty of others are not, and haven't had a nutrition class since medical school, if even then), especially when they see the results or look at the clinical data. Many pediatricians will set up an introductory interview with you (no exam of the kids, just a discussion of philosophy and general practice), at no charge. Don't be afraid to ask.

Try a DO. They are trained longer than an MD and take a more holistic attitude towards treatment. My DO would give me a shot of Novocaine in my muscle spasms then he'd massage the spot as long as it needed and also do ultra sound on it to get it to loosen up. He would spend a few minutes between patients and work to get my spasm loosed up so I could be done with it. Then he did give me a prescription for a muscle relaxant to use at my own desecration. All the DOs I went to my whole life were like this.

When I was in college I went to my very first MD. I had batted and twisted my back up something awful. The team doc gave me pain pills, muscle relaxants, and told me to go home and go to bed for 3 weeks. I asked him why? Wasn't he going to fix it? He said he didn't know how to fix it because it was a soft tissue injury and it just took time to heal. I told him what my DO had always done and why couldn't he do that and fix it? I would be done with the spasms and be ready to go about my business. He said real docs didn't fix injuries like that. I said..."Mmmmmmm, Okay" then I left there and drove home to OKC and went to my DO and he fixed it. I left his office without any prescription and my back was loose and working perfectly. Stayed that way too.

Went back to the softball team practice the next day and the team doc wouldn't let me play, I was on the injured list. But the coach tested me to see if I was fit and I passed everything. He told me to take it easy so I did but I was fine.

A DO is a Doctor of Osteopathic medicine. They go to medical school then they also have an extra 2 semesters of nothing but the skeletal system and more in depth classes on other things that MDs don't have.

Nowadays they are more general and work side by side in almost every hospital with MDs. I'd still rather go to a DO over an MD though.

Much of the holistic/naturalistic stuff is full of quackery.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/health/alternative-medicine...

We are in Raleigh and go to Dr Virginia Shreiner at Pediatric Partners. She is AMAZING with my boys and uses rx as a last resort. She's easy to talk to and is very thorough. My oldest needed a spinal X-ray when he was a few months old and she personally called me at 9 pm that evening to let me know the results so I wouldn't worry. We are relocating in a few weeks but I will absolutely miss her. Good luck!