Hello, world.

Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 324.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Equipped with a traditional medical education, Chad returned to the Army as an active duty physician.

A commander came in complaining of elbow pain

and requested proletarpy, a procedure he'd never heard of. He began digging into the literature.

What he found totally transformed his medical practice from that day forward.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Chad Edwards. Welcome, Chad.

Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. It is our pleasure. Chad, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Absolutely. All righty. We want to hear the whole story. Dr. Chad Edwards is an osteopathic

physician practicing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His primary interest is functional medicine

using a holistic approach. His primary goal is to optimize health through all available means,

including nutrition, exercise, rest, herbles, medications, acupuncture, chiropractic,

and any other means available as deemed appropriate.

Well, Dr. Edwards, that's a pithy summary of your career, and I love what you're doing, by the way.

Tell our listeners around the world more about you and what you're doing now, what has you engaged.

Sure. So basically, the mission statement of my clinic is simply to revolutionize health care. I feel that our approach to health for our individual patients has completely gone awry, and we need to almost turn it around 180 degrees and go back the other way. We need to focus on health and not on illness and disease, which is the way that our mainstream medicine seems to have gone.

So it's been a process getting to this point, but we continue to drive in that direction

and I absolutely love what I'm doing.

It's certainly we get knocked down, so to speak, and different things happen.

But anytime something like that happens, a patient will come in virtually the next day or that day,

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