About

In 2001, while still in practice with her father, Dr. John Pickerell, Dr. Darling had a vision of a clinic which would focus upon natural healing modalities.  A place where patients could come and be shown the best ways to heal themselves without pharmaceutical interventions.

This required a change in the way the practice was run…cancelling Medicare and third party insurance payments directly to the practice because it made the practice beholden to the whims of the insurance companies. At the time her peers thought she was crazy.  How could a practice that was cash pay only survive?  Well, as it turns out, very well.  

We have been a direct primary care facility for over 20 years and our patients have come to love the independence it offers our practitioners to use whatever treatments have been shown to be safe and effective, even if not covered by insurance.

Insurance companies today make determinations for payment based upon what is known as “Standard Of Care”.  This often is not based on scientific evidence but upon partnerships between the governmental agencies, insurance companies, and big pharma.  

For example,  Medicare will not reimburse a simple Vitamin D test for patients, stating there is no clinical evidence that Vitamin D levels play any role in immune response.  One only has to look at the clinical data from Covid 19 infections to see that the number one risk factor for contracting a severe Covid infection was low Vitamin D.