Hi! Welcome to my blog. I'm Dr Joan Barice. If you are interested in staying healthy naturally, if you love aromatherapy or natural medicine, if you are interested in acupuncture, or energy healing, or public health or preventive medicine, please stay tuned. If you suffer chronic pain*, want relief, and don't tolerate or like to take drugs or don't want to jeopardize your sobriety this may be a good place for you to visit. I would love to share health tips, my experiences as a doctor and a patient, and medical news which may be important to you. Most of all I would like to hear from you. I'm most interested in helping inform people so they can stay healthy as naturally as possible. I received my MD from Stanford, MPH from Harvard, and honorary doctorate in Humanities from Northwood University. I am board certified in internal medicine, preventive medicine and public health and ASAM certified in addiction medicine. I'm on the adjunct faculty of 3 medical schools. I teach med students and doctors. I believe in prevention first and a healthy lifestyle, and have given many classes to help people make changes which are difficult but worth it. It's never too late to get some benefit from prevention. I cannot give anyone medical advice here. Anything I say here should not be taken as medical advice, and will not substitute for proper medical care. I wrote the Palm Beach Long-Life Diet, published by Simon & Schuster years ago - basically good nutrition under the cover of a popualr diet book. I try to practice what I preach. I set up and ran a chronic pain management program which used integrative medicine, including acupuncture, exercise, meditation,and conventional treatments. I have made 250 skydives, love the outdoors, lived in China where I studied qigong, survived a plane crash in the arctic wilderness, and have otherwise had a wonderful life.
My favorite quote is "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." by Helen Keller.
Wishing you health,
Joan
jbaricemd@gmail.com
*Read an article about Dr Barice "Dealing with relentless pain" in Fort Myers Florida Weekly September 20, 2007
