Contributor

Michael Finkelstein, MD

The Slow Medicine Doctor

Michael Finkelstein, MD, aka The Slow Medicine Doctor, has been featured in top media including The New York Times and CNN; has presented at leading venues including GE Corporation and Omega Institute; and is the author of Slow Medicine: Hope and Healing for Chronic Illness, endorsed by notables including Mehmet Oz, MD and Andrew Weil, MD. Dr. Finkelstein was trained at premier institutes for conventional and integrative medicine –- including The University of Pennsylvania and The University of Arizona College of Medicine. Certified in both Internal Medicine and Integrative-Holistic Medicine, Dr. Finkelstein has distinguished himself not only as a doctor in private practice, but also as the Medical Director of several major hospitals and health institutes, including two Integrative Medicine hospital departments/programs that he founded. Drawing from this diverse medical expertise, Dr. Finkelstein offers both a micro and macro point of view on today’s healthcare needs and challenges, and he provides a tried-and-true solution for healing individual patients and the medical system as a whole: Slow Medicine, which restores hope among patients and reminds doctors why they went into medicine in the first place.