The root of the mission

Here, we are a family and our healing space is a sanctuary. Our mission is to EMPOWER our patients to take an active role in their healthcare journey and to EDUCATE them on the complexity of their health and wellbeing by focusing on healing of the mind, body, and spirit.

Set and setting

  • Space

    An intimate Shala was created to take the clinical out of the experience of seeing a Doctor. No scrubs, white coats, or answering service. However, there is an office dog and not to brag but we have a killer sound system with super-fire playlists! In 2020, the pandemic gave us an opportunity to redefine and modify our flow. We currently occupy a mindful, conscious space with an intentionally low carbon footprint. We close for lunch daily and during this sacred time together we eat healthy food that we have prepared, watch lectures on the latest advances in science and wellness, and often take walks outside.

  • Time

    Each person has a unique story. Taking time to listen and create the narrative that represents the individual requires dialogue, research, and coordinated information flow. Keeping our patient population small has made our practice both intimate and fluid. Advocacy, accessibility, and communication are our strong suits. Limiting the number of patients in our practice allows us to create a unique experience catered to each individual. Our space allows us the time to see patients for extended appointment times. We can control the flow of traffic in our space so that each patient has a private, flexible experience.

  • FAMILIARITY

    We know our patients by their first names, not their date of birth. Our method of carefully interviewing prospective members allows us the platform to create a relationship with resonance. The intake process requires gathering your entire medical history and reviewing it prior to your first visit. Really getting to know our patients allows us the ability to better intuitively care for them. Love is the most underutilized component of corporate medicine, we use it liberally. Creating an intimate space with the time to care for people whom we know well and can advocate for. We love the people we take care of. This is not just our job it is our reason for being in this lifetime.

We are a unique model

  • We are steadfast advocates of ethical care and serve as trusted custodians and fierce guardians at the end of life. Honoring the full spectrum of our human life cycle at the most sacred and soulful time.

  • Educating patients about all sides of the medical narratives, studies, and vaccines. Promoting bodily autonomy and self-confidence in personal care decisions is an empowerment strategy we promote.

  • Getting to know people on a very deep and personal level as we have journeyed together through challenging and rewarding times has been a deep privilege that inspires our flow.

  • Follow-through, follow up and attention to detail allow us to construct and guide patients through various health challenges and realities.

FAQs

 

Are you a Concierge practice?

No. We were one of the first-generation Concierge practices in our area, because of that experience we have created a model that no one else is practicing! A small enclave of Internal medicine members pay a yearly fee to allow us to practice in an unconventional way that serves us ALL in a positive way. We are trying to set a new standard of care and define a new generation of conscious medicine.

What Does patient participation mean?

Patient participation is different for each individual. It does NOT mean you are the epitome of health. However, it does mean you have to be remotely interested in learning about and implementing to the best of your situational reality, new methods of thinking and new pathways of being, to achieve a quality of life that all beings inherently desire.

Do you have hospital privledges?

Yes. I have been on the staff of Jupiter Medical Center for 30-plus years. A skilled hospitalist whom I maintain a positive relationship with executes my technical admissions with my input and patient advocacy every step of the way. I do my most important patient advocacy work while my members are inpatient. I have even done my patient rounds in costume on Halloween!

do you practice regular medicine?

We hope not! If you mean do we use conventional medicine? Yes. Integrative medicine is the best definition.

What’s included in the yearly membership fee?

Dr. Mark W. Gocke! Internal medicine advocacy and personal care team which exists nowhere else. We provide members with the yearly complete physical part of the fee covering the 90-minute functional medicine assessment, complete diagnostic lab panel, medical history review and sub-specialty coordination. Direct access to medical staff. We have an RN (soon to be nurse practitioner) who answers the phone, we have no answering service!! No one waits in our office, we see on patient at a time.

Do you accept insurance?

We DO accept MEDICARE. We have a 3rd party billing and membership management firm that handles all patient billing questions. We are out-of-network providers for commercial insurance. Our yearly membership fee is just that a membership fee that reserves your place at an ever-evolving table of services.