The Gilbert Clinic's Private Practice

Private Practice

Janine Blackman, MD, PhD

Dr. Janine Blackman Janine Blackman MD PhD offers a primary care practice of medicine with a difference. That difference is a thorough, practical and precise approach to listening and working with you to create solutions for your specific medical and health needs. She does this utilizing and incorporating into her practice both conventional and integrative medical models in a common sense fashion. By taking time with you, allowing you to be heard, and by working with you to create a tailored dedicated treatment plan, Dr Blackman gives you back the knowledge and care to find the optimal solution to your medical and health needs.

And these challenges are different for everyone. Be it Men's Health, Women's Health, Sleep Problems, Diabetes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome or one of the many other conditions she can make a difference with, working with Dr Blackman means you have an expert who will take the time to systematically address your issues.

Renewed through traditional methods

Dr Blackman incorporates Allopathic (conventional) care with state of the art complementary and alternative approaches as well as sound therapeutic lifestyle counseling. As the previous Medical Director of one of the largest NIH funded Integrative Medical Centers in the USA you can be sure the level of care you will receive is of the highest caliber. However it doesn't end there. The difference in Dr Blackman's practice to the many others offering Integrative care is her sincerity and belief in the Practice of Family Medicine values. Simply put, there is a respect for the patient and the lives they lead. There is also the underlying belief that people deserve unbiased access to knowledge for treating and preventing illness and achieving optimal health. Giving patients the awareness to enact this knowledge is Dr. Blackman's passion.

General Medical & Health Assessment

To attain optimal health in our lives there needs to be a thorough approach to our healthcare. The General Medical & Health Assessment is the service Dr Blackman provides to facilitate this need. The General Medical & Health Assessment includes an assessment of your stress and lifestyle conditions as well as all standard Allopathic medical investigations a primary care physician would commonly order (such as lab work and examination). By taking a thorough health history and by taking time with you Dr Blackman is able to build up your medical and health picture. This is a far cry from the 10 minute visit that many of us are used to. It requires much skill and time to identify an accurate picture of your present medical and health concerns and areas of life that you may wish to address. This assessment is not radical but is a practice of the traditional methods of quality Primary Care that seem to be disappearing from America's landscape.

Once Dr Blackman's assessment has been made, she will then enact with you a treatment strategy allowing you to receive the best of all possible care. Part of this care includes assessment of your dietary habits and physical activity, and developing nutrition and lifestyle recommendations that fit into your life.

Appointments with Dr. Blackman

For new patient inquiries, you are welcome to schedule a free 15-minute phone or office visit with Dr. Blackman in order to help you decide if want to work with Dr. Blackman.

Initial appointments are scheduled for one hour unless other arrangements are made. For patients who travel a long distance and/or have complex medical histories, longer appointments may be arranged.

Follow-up appointments are scheduled for 30-minutes unless other arrangements are made. Similarly, for patients who travel a long distance and/or have complex medical histories, longer follow-up appointments may be arranged

Costs

Payment is required at the time of service. A statement of services with appropriate office visit or procedure codes and diagnosis codes is provided for you to submit to your insurance carrier and/or Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA). Dr. Blackman is not a participating provider with any insurance plans.

A typical recommended schedule of office visits may be monthly or bimonthly for the first six to twelve months until you are close to achieving your health goals, followed by an office visit every six months to maintain, refine, and respond to new health issues and goals. The frequency of visits is entirely flexible for your health goals and schedule requirements.

Telephone Consultations

People who travel a long distance to work with Dr. Blackman or those with busy work schedules may schedule follow-up appointments as telephone consultations. Written treatment recommendations are mailed to you after the phone consultation. You will be charged for the scheduled time on the phone and for the time required to produce the written materials that are mailed to you after the appointment. Phone consultations are charged at the same rate as in-person office visits. Please be aware that insurance companies will not reimburse for phone consultations. Phone consultations will not be scheduled for new patient appointments.

You can see the range of health issues addressed by Dr. Blackman by visiting Dr Blackman's Condition Specific Page.

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