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Pursuing Health

Providing Empowering Care with Dr. Lilian White PH 308

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Lilian White, MD, IFMCP is a graduate of the Cleveland Clinic Family Medicine Residency where she won the Family Medicine Resident Award for Advocacy and was a nominee for the Cleveland Clinic Intern of the Year.  She attended Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine where she received the Dean’s Award.  Dr. White graduated summa cum laude from Heidelberg University with a B.S. in Chemistry.   Dr. White is an advocate for family medicine and holistic health and serves as a board member for the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, and president of the Northeast Ohio Academy of Family Physicians. She is active as a writer and a contributing editor for the American Family Physician Journal and is a senior author at Core Content Review of Family Medicine. In October of 2023 she founded Empowered Health, a direct primary care practice to offer personalized, holistic care using the best use of her conventional medical training and her passion for functional medicine and holistic health.  She enjoys doing her best to see the big picture and relate all of a patient’s conditions to one another and in the context of their life and values. She is certified in functional medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. During her first year in practice, she received the Top 25 under 35 by the Cleveland Professional 20-30 Club and Cleveland Magazine’s Best Doctors of 2024 awards by a nomination of her peers. Outside the office, Dr. White enjoys paddle boarding, yoga, reading and planning events to gather her friends and family together. You can connect with Dr. White via Instagram @lilian_white.md and @empoweredhealthdpcRelated Episodes:Ep 299 - Dr. Wayne Jonas on Whole Person Care for Cancer and Healing   Ep 111 - Dr. Kenneth Rictor on a New Model for Primary Care   If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice.  I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

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0:00.0

So when my patients come in, my initial appointments are two hours. That's how much I block on my schedule

0:05.5

anyway. We may not need that long, but it's nice to have that initial unrushed appointment to really get

0:10.7

to know that person. If somebody were walking into the office, they may think I just do functional

0:14.9

medicine, actually, because that first appointment really does look like a functional medicine intake.

0:19.5

That's how I structure it. So we go through their their timeline and then where it starts to get a middle more like family medicine,

0:25.7

I ask about family history, social history, colon cancer screening, you know, all the basic

0:30.6

preventive things, a check base, touch base on. We do a good head to toe exam and then we talk

0:35.8

through next steps in terms of lab work and what we're going to do based on their concerns.

0:40.3

But I agree. I just, I weave it in as functional medicine.

0:50.2

Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and former CrossFit Games athlete.

0:57.0

Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness and medicine

1:01.8

and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

1:05.0

Thank you so much for joining me.

1:06.5

Now let's get started with this week's episode.

1:12.1

Welcome back to pursuing health.

1:14.8

I am so excited today to be joined by the one and only Dr. Lillian White, who I had the

1:22.7

pleasure of meeting when I was just finishing up residency and she was a medical student at Wright State University

1:29.2

and she went on to the same residency program at the Cleveland Clinic, Family Medicine,

1:35.4

after I had graduated, but we've kept in touch and it has been amazing to watch her journey.

1:41.7

She is definitely one of the most impressive young family physicians that I have the

1:46.5

pleasure of knowing. And it's not just because she's super smart and she has this incredible

1:51.0

breadth and depth of knowledge, but it's really because of the heart that she puts into

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