Dr. Patricia Zub
Dr. Zub graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at The Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. Practicing throughout Massachusetts, she has held positions at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge where she also served as Associate Medical Director of the Geriatric-Psychiatry Unit and was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She later worked at Community Primary Care in Medway, Chadwick Medical Associates in Worcester and as an Internal and Functional Medicine physician at Visions Healthcare in Needham. She is also a Reiki Master and trained in Full Spectrum Healing. She has completely all of the coursework offered by the Institute for Functional Medicine and will be sitting for their certification exam when it is next offered in 2017.
I’ve had the eye-opening privilege of being on both the “traditional” and “integrative” sides of healthcare. I started my career path in medicine with very solid academic training in Boston after which I settled into a busy Internal Medicine practice. Although I was successful at diagnosing and treating a variety of illnesses, I quickly became disenchanted with the “modern” practice of medicine. Over time I recognized a pattern of patients improving for a while, only to return and require more medications for their illnesses which continued to progress. I agonized over the pressure of seeing more patients in shorter amounts of time cutting down on my ability and desire to know the whole person in front of me.
I sought a better fit moving through several different practice settings, to no avail. During this time, I pursued my personal interests in nutrition, lifestyle changes, and energy medicine. This journey exposed me to the notion of “Functional Medicine”. I immediately resonated with the paradigm of identifying the root cause of symptoms and supporting the body’s ability to heal as the type of medicine I was meant to practice. I now enjoy the privilege of learning and mastering this science-based interconnected approach of medicine and teaching my patients how to get and stay better. I offer hope to patients who have either failed or grown frustrated with the traditional approach and to those who seeking an alternative one. Time after time I see patients who’ve become used to miserable symptoms reduce and reverse them living longer, healthier, more vibrant lives. Medicine the way I was meant to practice!
“Finding 4 Better Health was a blessing after many years of traditional medicinal doctors /Endocrinologists being unable to get me to feeling optimal. Dr Zub listened to me, truly heard me & devised a proactive plan for me to have a better life. My body is still healing, but I am no longer barely functioning to get through my daily life. I can exercise again without being completely depleted of energy. I have been able to successfully lose 20 pounds. I feel I can always contact Dr. Zub with any questions or concerns I may have. We continue to work together to find the right course of action for my health. I can’t say enough great things about their practice.”
