River Rock Medical Clinic

"At RiverRock, health actually means freedom. Or if you like the fancier, more precise word, it means autonomy. Just like having money in the bank means you have the freedom to make choices, you also have a health bank. Health actually means freedom. People talk about your "financial health" because there's an intuitive understanding of this concept - that health is autonomy. Health is the "money in the bank" that allows you to make decisions about your life. If you have 10 million dollars in your financial bank account, you have a lot of freedom to go buy things, or do things with that money. Just like having money in the bank means you have the freedom to make choices, you also have a health bank. But, if you weigh 500lbs, or you have heart failure, or you're just not fit enough, then your depleted "health bank account" will limit what things you can choose to experience, no matter how much money you have. You can't go snowboarding. You can't go climb machu picchu. You might dream of those things, but those are just illusory, pie-in-the-sky dreams. Those dreams cannot become reality, because you don't have enough freedom to choose to make those dreams into reality. But, if you do lose weight, if you recondition your body, become healthier, then suddenly those choices are open; those dreams becomes viable options. Your health has increased, and now you can choose to make those dreams real; because that's what health is - The power to choose which dreams you want to make real. That's what health is — The power to choose which dreams you want to make real. The only reason to have health is so you can do other things. Your doctor should helping you do other things, helping you have more freedom to choose. And that's what RiverRock is really about, what medicine as a whole should be about - moving you to a better state of health, giving you more options, more autonomy, more freedom. It's about increasing the number of things you can choose to do - the number and the quality of the options you have."