High Touch Healthcare: Educating Patients & Raising Awareness of Long Haul & Vax Injuries

How I improved patient education, added lifestyle medicine, and got 20,000+ people to register for the biggest and best online Long Haul Summit in the history of the universe ;-)

Perhaps 6 months ago I realized people just weren’t getting enough education on how to approach their treatment of Long COVID & Vaccine injury.

I needed a lot more education for what can be a complicated protocol for some people (if ivermectin knocks it out its simple, if not there are a lot of lifestyle changes, supplements and meds to prioritize and juggle).

So I filmed a 2+ hour video explainer of the protocol for people to watch before their visits along with a free lifestyle ebook about the things I had done to get my own long COVID under control, like breath work and meditative movement as well as the approaches others had found successful like intermittent fasting. 

I created a 4 part webinar to explain the lifestyle stuff in more detail and also wrote a short email course to help get people started on lifestyle change - all of it free. 

The idea was that lifestyle could probably help most people recover, but people needed a lot of encouragement to get started. 

The ebook didn’t make much of a splash, so I brought on a great health coach (Michelle Harvey) to help me expand the ebook into an 8 week online self guided course, a higher tier group coaching version of the same course as well as 1 on 1 coaching.

The group coaching included help with optimizing supplement protocols as well as guidance on lab testing and those interested in taking medications could also get those prescribed in addition to the lifestyle and supplement guidance. 

At that point we got a number of 1 on 1 coaching clients as well as a cohort of people interested in signing up to the group and eventually got great feedback as the first cohort completed their 8 week course this January - a few even signed up to retake the course. 

A number of people found the group experience to be beneficial from a psychological perspective - many had spent months or years being gaslit or simply misunderstood by everyone around them.

They also found the experience of group interaction motivated them to get started with lifestyle changes they already knew might help them, but hadn’t been able to begin. 

We received many reports of improvements from things like fasting, cold therapy, grounding, and more. 

But the most important part wasn’t the information - I give everyone the basic information for free via our comprehensive lifestyle, supplement and medication protocol and the lifestyle focused ebook - it was the explanation of the science behind the recommendations and the repetition and the inherent motivating effect of group accountability. 

People need to understand the why behind recommendations and also be exposed to new ideas repeatedly before they finally decide to try them out. And then they need ongoing reminders and support to persist for long enough to start seeing the results. 

Most people who come to me are just interested in medications, but there is a motivated subset who don’t like taking meds, so hopefully the free and paid materials on lifestyle approaches to long COVID & Vaccine injury that are available now prove beneficial for them. 

I also started to realize that there were probably millions of people suffering without knowing there was a solution out there for their problem.

In order to ring the bell and raise awareness I decided to launch a free online Summit.

I thought it would be a simple matter of interviewing some people and putting the recordings up on a website, but it turned out to be far more complicated technically than I anticipated.

It took many months to record the 40+ hours of content and put together the website and all the web copy and write all the reminder emails and set up sms notifications, etc.

However we eventually launched it to great success and now over 20,000 people have signed up to view the Summit free at longcovidreset.com.

We do offer a VIP upgrade for lifetime access to the recordings, but all those proceeds go straight back into marketing the Summit to an ever larger audience in keeping with the original goal of raising awareness as much as possible - both of the problem and the solution. 

Many people have learned to help themselves by watching the Summit, but I probably benefited more than anyone from picking the brains of the leading minds in the field like Pierre Kory, Mobeen Syed, Peter McCullough, JP Saleeby, and many many more. 

We also launched a Facebook group called Long Haul Reset (they wouldn’t let us name it Long COVID Reset) to go along with the Summit and over 4000 people have joined to share their experiences with Long Haul and Vax injuries and we have a weekly live Q&A every Wednesday afternoon.

Economics of Medicine

Early on, instead of charging for visits I simply requested donations.

This model works, but after a while I realized that people don’t value what they get for free as much as what comes with a price tag - even when most of them do end up making a donation.

Even when they are charged most people tend to discount medical advice so much that they don’t follow much of what they are told. This isn’t a great recipe for healing. 

The most effective healers I’ve ever met charged hefty fees and they inspired such confidence in their patients that they not only paid happily but they did every single thing they were told. 

So I do charge a significant amount for one on one face time with me - though not nearly as high as some.

But most of what I do is asynchronous - consults that don’t need to be live. For those visits anyone can request a discount up to 100% without any documentation requirements. 

So every month 4-5% of the prescriptions I write are done pro bono. 

I also encourage anyone who can afford to donate to do so - to help defray the cost for those discounted or free visits - and eventually I’ll set up a non-profit so that I can help truly needy patients who apply to obtain important testing and treatments they can’t pay for. 

For now, despite what some people think, medicine isn’t a license to print money - even online there is significant staff overhead involved - existing HIPAA compliant medical software is still so unwieldy that there are an inordinate number of people behind the scenes helping me coordinate and take care of patients.

There are also physician assistants that help me respond to far more medical questions than I could possibly respond to by myself. This is one of the things that distinguishes mygotodoc from everyone else in the space.

There is nowhere else you can go where patient registration is always FREE and you can get FREE answers to specific medical questions that take into account your own unique situation. 

I don’t like high cost healthcare because it's fundamentally elitist.

We have to figure out a way to offer high touch, human centered healing to everyone rich and poor and in between.

The only way I can come up with for now is that those who can afford more have to pay and/or donate extra into the system to cover those who can afford less and this includes physicians donating some of their own time. 

Sustainable and scalable healing comes from ongoing interactions with other humans: clinicians, coaches, nutritionists, therapists, trainers, others going through the same problems, etc. 

It takes a village to reliably turn diseased humans healthy.

All those people who should be involved in healing need jobs and a functioning healthcare system would easily find a way to pay for them over drugs and procedures that concentrate reimbursements in the hands of the few, while at the same time addressing the root cause dysfunction that is leading to ill health - the destruction of healthy food and water, the contamination of the environment with toxic chemicals, the inflation that eats away at our ability to plan ahead for the future (it deteriorates both wealthy habits and healthy habits), and our moral and spiritual decay.

The answer to most of our problems lies in our own past - and there are some cultures that have retained their identity in the modern world and figured out how to be healthy despite the many ills inherent in our modern environment. For example the 7th day Adventists in the US and those living in blue zones elsewhere like Okinawa, Japan and Ikaria, Greece (though the focus on finding long lived populations that eat little meat is probably due to political bias. There is evidence that the evolutionary paleolithic diet for most of human history was entirely meat based and longevity may have more to do with other factors like close social ties, eating less, and dumping excess iron through bloodletting).

There is probably an element of anti meat selection bias in the Blue Zones research

We used to have a better healthcare system because healthcare was historically seen as a service and a religious obligation, not a way to make billions of dollars.

Healthcare systems were started and maintained by religious organizations and other true non profits.

Things began to deteriorate when the wealthy robber barons identified healthcare as a new market for synthetic drugs available to exploit for untold profits and used the same anti-competitive practices they perfected in the energy industry to crowd out all the real healers and replace them with brainwashed physicians who over the course of the last 100 years have become little more than automatons going through their programmed motions - just as ready as any other knowledge worker to be replaced by actual AI driven robots.

Fighting against this will eventually mean moving offline into the real world. Online care via mygotodoc is hopefully a temporary stepping stone, necessary for now since not every community has a physician who knows how to treat long COVID & Vax injuries and not every community has enough people to support one of those physicians.

Cutting edge healthcare would hearken back to a time before we used technology for connection because technology can’t really replace in-person interaction regardless of how high fidelity and immersive the experience becomes.

There will always be something missing from synthetic meta verse interactions: the actual people you’re interacting with, their bioenergetic fields, their pheromones, perhaps even their souls.

Anyway for now we’re doing our best to offer soulful healthcare online, and hope to see you in the real world one day.