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Start Here: Welcome to The Integrative Clinician · The Integrative Clinician by BridgeWell

• 0:05
  Speaker: Welcome to the Integrative Clinician by Bridgewell.
• 0:08
  Speaker: I'm Dr.
• 0:09
  Speaker: Sheri Erwin, nurse practitioner, educator, and founder of Bridgewell Integrative Education.
• 0:14
  Speaker: I am so glad you are here.
• 0:16
  Speaker: I created this podcast because I believe nurse practitioners deserve more than a list of protocols, supplements, and laboratory tests.
• 0:24
  Speaker: We need better ways to think through complex patients, especially those that we're focusing on from a functional and integrative standpoint.
• 0:32
  Speaker: For years I found myself collecting information from conferences, books, and continuing education.
• 0:38
  Speaker: One course focused on hormones, another on gut health, another on thyroid, and another on obesity medicine.
• 0:46
  Speaker: The information was valuable, but nowhere was I ever taught how to organize it into confident clinical decisions.
• 0:55
  Speaker: That's what this podcast is about.
• 0:57
  Speaker: Every episode is designed to help you strengthen your clinical reasoning so you can recognize patterns, organize complexity, and make thoughtful, evidence-informed decisions for the patient sitting in front of you.
• 1:11
  Speaker: We'll explore topics like women's health, metabolic medicine, obesity medicine, thyroid physiology, gut health, longevity, laboratory interpretation, and the everyday patient encounters that challenge us to think differently.
• 1:27
  Speaker: My goal isn't to teach you more protocols, it is to help you become the kind of clinician who knows how to ask better questions, communicate physiology in ways patients understand, and confidently choose the next best step.
• 1:41
  Speaker: If that sounds like the kind of clinician you want to become, I think you're in the right place.
• 1:46
  Speaker: Thank you for listening.
• 1:48
  Speaker: I hope you'll follow the show, leave a review if you find it helpful, and share it with another nurse practitioner who wants to practice differently.
• 1:57
  Speaker: Welcome to the Integrative Clinician by BridgeWell.
• 2:00
  Speaker: I'm excited you're here.