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| Fox Valley Wellness Center was founded in 1999, by Dr. Steven
Meress, MD, FACP and his wife Julie who is a Registered Nurse.
The idea for Fox Valley Wellness Center actually began in 1989
while Dr. Meress and Julie were working together at a local
hospital in the Emergency Room, Dr. Meress as Department Chief
and Julie as Assistant Manager. From time to time they
discussed how certain patients came into the ER expecting
relief of their symptoms, when they actually needed to find a
cause for their symptoms. Some patients ended up in the ER due
to frustration with their doctors and their diagnosis. Many
times the two discussed other types of treatments that they had
encountered and experienced. Discussions stemmed from the
travels that both Dr. Meress and his wife have done throughout
the world. They watched other cultures provide health care for
little to no cost and with much less technology. Dr. Meress
had spent time in Barbados, St. Vincent and Grenada, where he
obtained his medical degree and was able to experience Third
World medicine.The concept of finding the cause instead
of treating the symptoms became more evident. They came to
realize that treating the symptoms or in other words, using
the "Band-Aid approach", which traditional medicine embraces,
would not fit into the philosophy of their
clinic.Relying heavily on his excellent diagnostic
skills from his traditional training and utilizing his
knowledge of alternative therapies, Dr. Meress said, "As a
physician, who is really a medical detective, it takes time to
hear the story and ask the pertinent questions of a patient's
history. Most of the time, the story elicits a diagnosis
before a physical examination is performed". Word of mouth
spread and 3 years later Fox Valley Wellness Center moved to a
new, larger facility to offer more therapies and thus more
options for patients. |
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