Dr
Jeffrey Davies is a board certified family physician and the medical
director of St Luke’s Health Alliance.
Dr.
Davies, before going to medical school, was an engineer with a bachelor’s
degree in chemical engineering and a Masters degree in biomedical engineering.
His experience includes some 13 years
working at Mass General Hospital as a biomechanical engineer conducting
research on hip and knee replacement surgery. While this career was rewarding and exciting
it was always Dr. Davies goal to become a family physician. Dr. Davies
completed his family practice residency at the University of
Massachusetts in Worcester.
While
working as a family physician, in a medical office in Carver, Massachusetts,
Dr. Davies began to experience frustration as a doctor. "I was frustrated
seeing so many patients in need of treatment for conditions that were
completely preventable... I was quickly becoming an expert on all the
latest and greatest medications used to treat high blood pressure, high
cholesterol and diabetes... If only these patients had been educated on diet, exercise
and most importantly, stress reduction, much of their suffering could have
been avoided." This was the catalyst to opening our facility here on
the Cape.
Our goal
is not to treat symptoms with medication, although sometimes it's required,
but to get patients beyond the need for them. When our patients are
able to lose weight, reduce stress and maintain an active exercise program we're often
able to get them off their medication while keeping their blood pressure,
cholesterol and blood sugars in check. We spend our time and energies
on treating healthy people. Through education and support on the value
of a healthy lifestyle, positive thinking, exercise, healthy eating
and natural compounds we can effectively treat conditions like high
blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes before they become problematic.
It's a
well established fact that high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high
blood sugar dramatically increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
It is also medically well established that high blood pressure, high
cholesterol, high blood sugar can be effectively treated with diet and
exercise.
Patients
need to take control of their own health and we help them to do just
that.
