Reading: #92: Rethinking The Way Doctors Deliver Medical Care (Suzanne Steinbaum)

“It’s important to understand that you must go through life happy,” says Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum. “If you wake up every day and are miserable, it’s not right.” So says this unconventional cardiologist who just left big-hospital life to join an acupuncture and Ayurveda group to create a more “personalized” kind of care for her patients. “I believe no one needs to get heart disease,” she tells CoveyClub founder, Lesley Jane Seymour. “Using genetics, physiology, anatomy, and data,” she says she can figure out where her patients are on the spectrum toward heart disease and create a specialized prescription for diet and exercise that helps arrest, or even reverse, the progression. “People see me when they are ready to feel good and be the best they can be,” she says. “When they really see changes they are motivated.”