Most often, even before patients realize they’ve developed multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), its very first manifestation is fatigue, the sense of feeling deeply tired all the time. MCS is yet another condition I learned nothing about during my internal medicine residency, and when I asked the then-chief of allergy at Northwestern about it, he dismissed […]
Integrative Primary Care
Services / Integrative Primary Care
Integrative Primary Care
Integrative medicine aims for well-coordinated care among different providers and specialists. It brings together conventional healthcare approaches (like medication and psychotherapy) and complementary therapies (like acupuncture and nutrient therapy).
Women's Wellness Exams
Typically this appointment is scheduled to include a pelvic examination, Pap smear to screen for cervical cancer, and STI screening. Consultation will assist patient in planning for their future follow up at appropriate schedule. Please let our scheduling team know if the patient has a history of medical trauma, concerns / questions about the visit, or this is a rst-time health screening - we are happy to schedule a separate consultation with your provider prior to discuss comfort measures and pain control.
Annual Physical Exams
A physical exam checks your overall health. Your healthcare provider will evaluate the basic function of your organs, address any concerns, update your vaccinations and help you get healthy or maintain good health. A lab order typically follows.
Acute Visits
Acute care is when a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery that occurs in addition to the day to day health care provided by and overseen by a health care provider.
Providers
David Edelberg, MD
Medical Director & Internal Medicine Physician
Dr. Edelberg, board certified in Internal Medicine in 1974, began incorporating alternative therapies into his practice during the 1980’s. Since founding the parent company of WholeHealth Chicago in 1993, he has become nationally recognized as one of the pioneers of integrative medicine, the new medical specialty combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies.
Samantha Stuckey, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Samantha has been board certified as a physician assistant since 2017. Prior to Whole Health Chicago, she worked in a fast paced urgent care setting seeing a variety of conditions.
Brett Eaton, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, WHNP-BC
Integrative Nurse Practitioner
Brett is an integrative nurse practitioner who is board certified in both internal medicine and sexual/reproductive medicine.Brett’s passion lies in the connections between hormonal health, mental health, and gut health.
Mark Hagerty, APN
Family Nurse Practitioner
Mark is board certified as a family nurse practitioner since 2015. Prior to Whole Health Chicago he worked as an APN serving the refugee and immigrant community as well as patients from Chicagoland area.
Andrea Deleon, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner
Andrea is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who gained experience serving on the frontlines in the ICU as a Registered Nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her RN background is extensive in medical, surgical, and critical care but, inpsired by her own health journey, she ultimately left bedside nursing to begin working in the integrative care environment in a different role.
Vicki Bradley, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
Family Nurse Practitioner
Vicki Bradley is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and received her MSN in 2018 from Olivet Nazarene University.
Alexis Larson, APN, NP-C, OCN
Family Nurse Practitioner
Alexis Larson has been working in Radiation Oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since October, 2015. She graduated from Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL., in 2015 with her BSN and began her oncology journey shortly after. She became Oncology Certified Nurse in 2020 and received a daisy award in 2021.
Health Tips
You might be surprised how many of the health and medical facts we accept unquestioningly today are exactly the opposite of what my chosen profession recommended to the public back when I began my training. For example, most doctors (as well as the AMA) did not believe smoking caused lung cancer and the doctors lounge […]
Anyone who has ever visited a WholeHealth Chicago Functional Medicine practitioner knows that lots of questions focus on digestion. The reason for this goes all the way back to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who is alleged to have said “All disease begins in the gut.” This concept is not at all taught in medical […]
Along with most things relating to good nutrition, I wasn’t taught much of anything about supplemental magnesium either in medical school or during my internal medicine residency. It was a professional clinical nutritionist I met during a long-ago meeting of the American Holistic Medical Association who first told me, “You’ll never go wrong if you […]
Here’s an unfortunate trend: more and more young people (at my age, everyone under 50 is young) are troubled by chronic physical and emotional symptoms. Sometimes there’s a diagnosis: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s, fibromyalgia. But just as often there are plenty of symptoms and no diagnosis. I can’t count how many times patients have […]
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