Dr. Dawn Harris Sherling, M.D.

A person is not just a collection of organs. Seems like a pretty obvious statement, but one that can sometimes be forgotten. A good internist, however, is always looking at the whole person. It has become popular these days to call this "holistic" medicine, but for me, it's just practicing really good medicine. The other part of being an excellent physician is to make sure that I offer my patients the latest in evidence-based therapies. I don't believe in a distinction between "alternative" medicine and "Western" medicine. The true distinction is practicing evidence-based medicine (for which there have been published randomized-controlled clinical trials) vs. anecdotal medicine (for which there have been poorly designed trials or none at all). I take the latest evidence and discuss it with my patient so we can come up with a plan to better his or her health, together.