Jarred Mait, MD - Functional Medicine Specialist & Concierge Care in Miami Beach, Florida

Eva Sheie (00:03):
The purpose of this podcast is simple. We want you to get to know your doctor before meeting them in person because you're making a life-changing decision, and time is scarce. The more you can learn about who your doctor is before you meet them, the better that first meeting will be. I'm your host Eva Sheie, and you're listening to Meet the Doctor. Thanks for listening to Meet the Doctor. My guest today is Dr. Jared Mait. He's in Miami Beach, Florida, and he is a functional medicine specialist with a concierge practice. It's nice to meet you, Dr. Mait.

Dr. Mait (00:36):
It's great to be here on the show today. Thanks for having me, Eva.

Eva Sheie (00:39):
How did you end up in concierge?

Dr. Mait (00:42):
Yeah, so I mean, the journey was kind of long, but then obvious once I started it. So I trained as a anesthesiologist at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital System, and through my residency program, I realized that I was much more interested in the holistic approach to health and wellness. I was doing a lot of yoga at the time. I was doing a lot of herbal supplements and learning a lot about nutrition and taking health into your own hands. And through this journey, I discovered that I wanted to be a physician that I needed in my own life, and I knew that other people would kind of align with that in their own frequency. And so back in 2015, I started Pulse and Remedy as a concierge medicine practice. We started with no office, just taking patients that wanted to have access to a physician that could show up on their doorstep and provide them with an incredible access to functional medicine, integrative medicine, and general internal medicine. It's grown since then, not having an office to now having moved to our third office, and we have a cadre of different people on my team that really help to make sure that the patient journey is fantastic and everybody is hopefully happy and healthy after.

Eva Sheie (02:03):
So were you actually driving around doing house calls in the beginning?

Dr. Mait (02:06):
Yeah, a lot of house calls.

Eva Sheie (02:08):
Were you able to pick up different information about people by going to their houses?

Dr. Mait (02:13):
Yeah, it's a great question. So sometimes when we as a physician, sometimes we're just asking about the current medical condition when it started and blah, blah, blah. For me, as a functional medicine practitioner, I really wanted to know who they were, what happened before I showed up, but really digging into their lifestyle. So what are you drinking? How much water are you drinking, how much caffeine are you drinking per day? What does your exercise regimen look like? How are you sleeping? What does your atmosphere look like? Do you use air filters in your home? Do you have plants inside of your home? So there's a whole cadre and a list of questions that I like to ask. So when I'm going into a person's house and I'm sitting there and they're a slob and they have Domino's boxes on their counter or they've got cat dander everywhere and shoes are dirty at the front door, they don't take off their shoes, it provides more insight into the person.

(03:06):
Versus someone showing up and me not knowing any backstory, and they just sit on my sofa and I give 'em the benefit of the doubt because they're sitting in a clean environment now. So yeah, taught me a lot about each person. I think also the other side was when patients go into physician's offices, there's this fear, the fear of maybe being diagnosed with something and the fear of being in a sterile environment with a doctor. They may spend three, four, whatever minutes with the patient before they're going to do tests, or they just want to go see the next patient. So this was a different type of opportunity to sit with the patient, get to know them, ask them questions, sit on their sofa, have a glass of water with them, and there's just this familiar type of vibe that happens and they feel connected. Like, wow, this guy showed up. He's a doctor, he's here to help me, and I feel relaxed, so maybe I'll share a little more than I would otherwise not be able to. So it was great. It was great for everyone.

Eva Sheie (04:09):
Did you ever have anything weird happen?

Dr. Mait (04:12):
Not so, nothing that's called to mind that was inherently strange. I mean, there's been situations that we would go to outrageous homes where we had to sign non-disclosure agreements, security had to go through our bags. There were house calls at 8:30 PM where we're waiting for two hours, or we get calls from a manager that says, we can't tell who it is, and then we wind up in a recording studio with the world's most famous rap artists. Anything happens when you start kind of saying, I will travel to you and here's the services we provide, and different types of people show up.

Eva Sheie (04:49):
Concierge medicine maybe originally was for the most wealthy people, and I do remember having conversations 10 or 15 years ago about making this change. How do you do it? How much do you charge? But it isn't just for wealthy people anymore. Is the work that you do available to more people than just the richest rappers in the world?

Dr. Mait (05:13):
I think concierge medicine is a approach for patients to be able to access excellent care and people who care for a price. Oftentimes, I'll make a comparison between concierge medicine to other professional services where insurance perhaps doesn't cover it. So let's say accounting or tax consulting services or wealth management services or even legal services. If a person is involved in a car accident or they have whatever, it's that they're paying a person at an hourly rate and they're not really negotiating the price down. They're just assuming this person's going to be there to resolve an issue for them. And I think concierge medicine is analogous to that where there's a value for service and the fee is commensurate with that. We do charge a considerable amount of money, but we provide an outrageous amount of value for it. Our team is pretty deep, so if someone needs something, it's no longer me just showing up at the house and doing everything myself.

(06:18):
If a person needs labs, we're sending one of our medical assistants to the house, we're taking labs in their bed, sometimes, bringing it back, processing it on their behalf. If a person needs medications because they're sick at home, we're having a delivery service delivery to them. If they need mobile x-rays or ultrasounds, we're organizing that for them. But then if they're coming into the office, we have a team of people that are analyzing and setting things up and making sure it's a great process in addition to getting great medical care. And then the other part of concierge medicine, I was actually having a call with a private equity investor today, was the idea that our patients, knowing that they're not going through a traditional insurance-based platform, their access to additional treatments is almost opened up where let's say a traditional internist is going to be working with a patient and they're going to be doing hormone testing. They're not going to recommend certain types of tests because insurance isn't going to cover it, and they're pretty much relegated to providing insurance-based coverage for tests, and most patients aren't expecting to pay anything out of pocket, but when they come to our practice and they're looking for some medical advice or hormone analysis, we're doing saliva testing, we're doing dried urine testing for hormone analysis, going down a rabbit hole to truly uncover a root cause analysis of, hormonal or any sort of disturbances in their functional systems.

Eva Sheie (07:52):
Where I thought you were going to go with that was actually down the privacy path where if you're not going through traditional insurance and you're not asking insurance to pay for something, you have a level of privacy that we don't have anywhere else.

Dr. Mait (08:05):
Yeah, I mean certainly it's not that we're off the grid. Generally everything is documented inside of our electronic health record systems that are super HIPAA compliant, and every other software system signs like a business associate agreement. So everything is dialed in and protected. We do get subpoenas from times, we do get insurance affidavits that people need to send medical records. A person was involved in a car accident and they need to get all their medical history. So there's times that we have to open up our records to different parties. We certainly keep privacy as paramount top of our practice, but still everything is documented in a method that patients' charts may be open to the courts, but not to insurance. The insurance company doesn't know that we start, we did a test for them, but when it comes down to medications, I mean Walgreens, CVS, all these different pharmacies feed into the system, and so big data definitely has a lot of information.

Eva Sheie (09:09):
I didn't mean to go all conspiracy theory, but it's common to worry about where our information is going these days. It seems like, I don't know, a couple times a year now, we get a letter in the mail that says, whoopsie, your data went to this unauthorized place, or we got hacked, or

Dr. Mait (09:25):
23 and Me.

Eva Sheie (09:27):
Good. Yeah, good example.

Dr. Mait (09:29):
Yeah. We've had circumstances that patients say, I do not want any record of this. And so as long as it's compliant with the law concerning how we have to document things, then we comply, but we don't have to comply with an insurance-based record keeping.

Eva Sheie (09:47):
You mentioned access to two other treatments, and I know from speaking to someone else that you work with recently that you have a lot of really innovative treatments right there in the office, right under the roof. Can you tell us more about that?

Dr. Mait (10:00):
Yeah, I mean, so I think you're referencing to Stems Health. So several years ago, Dr. Ankeet Choxi, who's a very close friend and business partner, we trained together at University of Miami residency for anesthesia. He went on to become a board certified, double board certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine doctor. So several years ago, we started doing more treatments for individuals in pain, but also with musculoskeletal orthopedic injuries, with the understanding that most injuries that are not of a certain severity based on imaging, MRI X-ray, CAT scan, what have you, not that if they're non-surgical candidates, that they don't just need pain medications and physical therapy, that there's opportunities to use what we call regenerative medicine treatments, orthobiologics. These start with platelet rich plasma, PRP, all the way up through exosomes and up into stem cells. And what's interesting is that the Florida Senate several weeks ago passed a bill in Florida that should be going into effect in July where stem cells will be legal in the state of Florida, and we've been working on a research basis here in our clinics or that, but it will be fully legal in the state of Florida to use stem cells for different injuries. So we're very excited about that.

Eva Sheie (11:22):
Were they not legal or was there just no policy or regulation whatsoever?

Dr. Mait (11:28):
Yeah, I mean, certain things are inherently illegal, doing things that are not to standard of care. I'm certainly not getting consent or full disclosure on the types of treatments we're doing or making claims that are not compliant with an FDA release statement that these things have been tested for this. So for the past several years, we've been doing things on a research protocol basis where patients have been advised that this is not an FDA approved treatment or method that the cells that we're using are for research purposes only, and they're participating in that type of study and that they're signing off. But obviously we can't disclaim all of our negligence, so we have to make sure that the chain of custody for the certain cells are appropriate, that we're getting 'em from a reputable source. They've been tested. We have a great back office making sure that happens, and we make sure that we're working with the best providers.

(12:21):
When it comes to certain things like platelet rich plasma, which I think a lot of your audience may have heard of in vampire facials or doing some sort of aesthetic treatments, those have been pretty standard. So the science is well-defined. For a couple of years, different orthopedic injuries have been treated with platelet rich plasma to reduce inflammation and also help with tissue remodeling. Those have been allowed by the FDA, but sometimes not reimbursed by insurance because they don't allow them for their to pay. But we've been doing those procedures for a very long time, not only for joints, but also intraspinal injections as well.

Eva Sheie (12:59):
What are some ways that you help people with PRP outside of aesthetics?

Dr. Mait (13:08):
Outside of aesthetics?

Eva Sheie (13:10):
Or in, I mean,

Dr. Mait (13:11):
Yeah, I mean from aesthetic standpoint, we're certainly doing PRP for hair because there is recognized regrowth using PRP, but mainly our PRP practice is for pain management and joint injections for pain, as well as repairing tissue.

Eva Sheie (13:29):
So things like hip pain or knees?

Dr. Mait (13:31):
Yeah. Okay. So specifically, so tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, patients with a tendonitis, patients with non-complete labral tears, rotator cuff injuries, patients with hip pain, just any joint that has pain. We don't just take pain patients. We need to make sure that they have an MRI or ultrasound so we can make sure we're providing the right treatment and send them to an orthopedist if it's not the right treatment. We don't just inject. Anybody that's in pain probably needs to either go see an orthopedist or they need to get imaging and come and see us, or a similar type of regenerative medicine facility to be able to understand what's the right treatment for them. But starting whether with steroid injections, just to curb the inflammation and pain all the way through PRP, exosomes and stem cells. Some great options, and they work, they work, and now that they're approved in the state of Florida, I think that there's going to be a lot more claims that are going to be founded based on this does work for tissue repair.

(14:37):
This does work for labral tears that are incomplete. I actually had exosomes injected into my knee last week by Dr. Choxi for a partial MCL tear. I do a lot of kung fu and tai chi, and as you can imagine for being 44, there's wear and tear on the body, but over time, we either do nothing about it or we do something. And surgery really wasn't an option to be out of my normal routine for six weeks all the way up to almost a year, depending on the type of surgery for the repair. So I did an exosome injection last week, and it's already feeling better, and I combined it with a certain peptide called BPC 157, but usually the exosomes take about a month to two months to really lay down new tissue and help repair. So I'm scheduled for a repeat ultrasound in about six weeks to see the extent of the exosomes repair, but it's great to own the practice.

Eva Sheie (15:36):
Yeah. How often do you get a chance to be the patient instead of the doctor? Not very often.

Dr. Mait (15:41):
No. No, but it felt good. It's just a quick story. When I was first starting my practice, having trained in anesthesia, I was very comfortable with IVs, starting IVs, giving IVs, understanding the physiology of certain electrolytes and fluid balances and such. And my brother had his bachelor party that I had to be the all-star for because it was my brother and I was sick with a cold, and I just had a sore throat and congested. I had no energy, and we were leaving the next morning. So I had one of my nurses come to my house and we had a signature doctor mate's wellness infusion where I mixed a blend of different types of vitamins, 10 grams of vitamin C, glutathione, B complex magnesium, a whole list of vitamins and two liters of fluid. And I woke up the next morning all better, and it was just like this aha moment in my career. It was pretty much about a year after I had started my practice that this is not a gimmick. This works, whether it's going to treat cancer or treat rheumatoid arthritis, I'm not making any claims, but from an immune state and curbing inflammation, it was amazing. And so I had no qualms about recommending that to patients that were asking me, does this work? And just to take it back to me being the patient, feels good to be on that side.

Eva Sheie (17:10):
You're supposed to have the IV after the bachelor party, not before the bachelor,

Dr. Mait (17:14):
Note taken, yeah.

Eva Sheie (17:16):
Do you have things like IV therapy there for your patients?

Dr. Mait (17:19):
Yeah. At the clinic, we have a room dedicated for IV therapies here, and we do a lot of different types of IV therapies. We do ones for immune function, we do IV therapies for iron infusions, so patients with anemia having difficulty absorbing iron or the inability to take oral iron. Most patients can't tolerate oral iron on a daily basis. It causes stomach pain, constipation, can interact with other medicines that they're taking. So we can do an iron infusion, 500 milligrams to a thousand milligrams tailored to the patient's hemoglobin and ferritin level, but make it simple. They don't have to think about it and take it for, make sure they're binding and get repeat lab tests, and we just do it in one fell swoop. But then we have infusions for detoxification, we do plaque X, which is phosphocholine infusions for lipid metabolism. So we do a lot here at clinic, but then we also do a lot of house calls. We do a lot of infusions at people's homes, especially NAD. I don't know if you're familiar with NAD?

Eva Sheie (18:27):
Have heard of it recently. It seems like everyone's talking about it right now.

Dr. Mait (18:31):
Yeah, NAD has become a big buzz in the anti-aging longevity and functional medicine space. So NAD is something, it's an antioxidant that lives inside of each of our cells. It's responsible for mitochondrial health. It's also responsible for DNA repair mechanisms within the nucleus of the cell. After a certain age, let's say our thirties, our NAD levels start to drop, not only because we need more NAD, but because our use of the NAD is increased and our ability to synthesize, it goes down. Now, what's interesting is NAD starts with niacin, which is vitamin B three. It gets converted to something called nicotinamide mononucleotide, which is NMN, and then that gets further converted into nicotinamide riboside NR that then gets shuttled inside of the cell and gets used within the nucleus, or just not only the nucleus, but inside of mitochondria for its effects. It's pretty profound.

(19:34):
I mean, we've used it with patients recovering from addiction. We've used it in patients with depression. We've used it in patients with adrenal fatigue, and we have more side effects that people report as beneficial than the actual reason we're using it. We've had patients that say, I've never looked younger. My skin is glowing, and that wasn't our intention. We have a patient of ours, 57-year-old, who wanted to do it because he was tired, and so we gave him one infusion of 500 milligrams. He just did it for fatigue. And the reason he called us the next day was because he said, my skin has never looked so good. And it was shocking to us that that was the benefit that he was calling about. Of course, he started to feel better because his NAD levels went up. But simultaneous with that, his skin was glowing, and so he's now become a believer in NAD. So we're doing infusions and we're also doing nicotinamide oral supplementation daily.

Eva Sheie (20:33):
So I'm starting to get a good picture of the kinds of things that you're doing in the office and on the house calls. What have we missed? What else? Or if we were going to come see you, what kinds of things could we expect to be able to do with you as a patient?

Dr. Mait (20:51):
Yeah, so I think what we do really well is deep dive. So if a person doesn't know how their health is, so a typical executive or anybody who's looking for a really good intake to understand where are they at, where they are on a cellular health level, a physical health level, a spiritual and mind body health level, we do hour to hour and a half appointments looking at basic chemistries, looking very in depth into hormone analyses analysis, nutrient panels, supplementation guides, doing GI stool testing to understand different bacterias that they may have, parasites, food allergy and sensitivity testing, looking at the types of foods that may be causing immune reactions, interrupting the normal digestive processes, causing bloating, and just very in-depth panels to understand where they're at in health, and then organizing specialist testing. So certainly we're not doing colonoscopies, but we make recommendations that patients in certain risk categories as well as at certain ages, get a colonoscopy.

(22:02):
For sure. Women should be getting breast screenings, they should be getting pap smears. We don't do those in office, but understanding what the science and research has told us and what they need to be doing, and we organize it. We have a great team to make sure that all appointments are set up for them. They know where to go. We get the results, we review it with them even before the other clinic calls them back in to review it. So we do a great job with our annuals. One of the things that we really excel in is in hormone treatments, understanding as we age, our hormones change. It's just a part of the process, but it doesn't have to be a painful process. So for men, starting in the late thirties, forties, we start to notice that our testosterone may be dropping, and as a result of that, our sex drives going down, our motivation's going down.

(22:53):
We have dysregulation of our sleep, our lipid metabolism, like our cholesterol starts to change, blood pressure changes. And so looking at those things and changing your hormones is not so difficult. So we use different types of medications, different types of supplements before we even get to taking testosterone. But certainly a patient that requires testosterone that the other therapies aren't working or can't work anymore, then we do that very well. But we also work with women very well as well. Women are traditionally much more subjectively burdened by the drop off in estrogen. Now, the first thing in the thirties for women usually is a testosterone drop off, then progesterone in the forties and in the fifties, estrogen starts to fall completely until the point of menopause. And once that happens, all things change. All systems change from energy levels to skin, to hair, to nails, to cholesterol, to bone density to sex drive, and ability to perform and function.

(24:01):
There's really no reason for that to happen, and we can control it. What's really interesting is earlier last year, I think it was the American Academy of Neurology published a research paper that looked at why do certain population groups have increased risks for dementia, and they found that women actually have an eight times risk for dementia as compared to men, which is incredibly high, and not just Alzheimer's, but all form dementia. There's many societal demographic reasons for it. A huge one happens to be that hormone levels drop so substantially that it's affecting people's brains, and there's really no reason for that. So I think the doctor of the future is looking at that today, and I think western medicine is going to catch up to it in the future. Back in the eighties nineties, women were started on conjugated equine estrogen, which is from horse urine, and it was taken orally and metabolized in the liver with toxic metabolites from that, not given progesterone.

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And then we saw a rise in breast cancers, a rise in uterine cancers. And so there was a big kind of, don't do this anymore. This should not be allowed. And a lot of women suffered, and a lot of women continue to suffer based on pretty bad research. But nowadays, if you have a good doctor and you have someone you can trust, and you can look at the research yourself and just go and chat GPT, and you can look at the source of that research, you'll find that women should be managing their hormones and there's no reason for them to suffer. We're doing that really well. Then we're also doing a lot with anti-aging and peptides. We're doing a lot with promoting healthy aging, understanding what are the things that we need to be focusing on and giving patients a really beautiful way to experience today, the next 20 years of their life through movement, through medications, through supplementation, through guided protocols. So really try to make my life on this planet purposeful and worth it. If I'm going to be doing this every day, I really want to have my patients go. I'm really glad I met that guy. He really gave me some time.

Eva Sheie (26:14):
Have you been helping people with weight loss using GLP ones?

Dr. Mait (26:18):
What's that? Just kidding. No, I'm kidding.

Eva Sheie (26:20):
Ozempic.

Dr. Mait (26:20):
Yeah, yeah.

Eva Sheie (26:21):
Oh, you're, wow.

Dr. Mait (26:23):
No, I've been living under a rock.

Eva Sheie (26:25):
I found the guy under the rock.

Dr. Mait (26:26):
Yeah, I'm under the rock, but we have peptides there. Yeah. No, I mean, I think GLP ones have been a game changer. I think that for many reasons, I think their weekly dosing has been pretty fantastic. It's pretty easy for patient's experience, very small needles, so patients can do it themselves. They have incredible outcomes. Dose based side effects certainly are manageable, but I think that there's more and more research coming out that they've applied for more and more FDA studies, looking at their ability to not only curb addiction, but blood sugar regulation, lipid metabolism, Alzheimer's disease. So I don't think there's a drug that cures people from themselves, but I think this is one that really helps people curb their own desire for things that perhaps they don't need to be doing.

Eva Sheie (27:23):
Have the GLP ones changed the way that you yourself have thought about weight loss with patients?

Dr. Mait (27:28):
Yeah, I mean, it's the only tool really in the arsenal from a medication standpoint that works for most patients. I mean, there's other medications that have been somewhat effective, but overeating and obesity is a real problem. Most diseases can be controlled by the things that we're putting in our systems, not only from overeating, but eating sweets and candies and processed foods and things that come out of bags and or in bad aisles of the grocery store. I think a lot of people say, I'll start exercising when I lose 20 pounds, or I'll start going here when I start losing weight. And I think this has augmented that this says, okay, well, it's been six weeks and you've lost 22 pounds or whatever it is, and let's get you to the gym. Let's get you working out with a trainer. Let's get you into a yoga class. So I definitely think it's helped the idea of patients getting fitter quicker.

Eva Sheie (28:26):
What do you like to do when you're not at work? I mean, you talked a little bit about martial arts, and I think you said yoga, you say yoga a lot. You must love yoga.

Dr. Mait (28:35):
These days, I do more Tai Chi than yoga, but I think a lot of those things, I think that the ancient healing arts are not being replaced. I think that people are just forgetting about them, and they're assuming that western medicine is more advanced. I think western medicine is reproducible, and I think it's billable, and I think it's injectable, but I think that those healing arts were founded thousands of years ago, and they're based on a lot of people doing them, and with a lot of great outcomes. I think Tai Chi is a brilliant art. I think it not only calms the mind, but it also opens the body, but it improves our breath. And I think the things that we're doing for ourselves every single day are more fundamental to our health than any medication or any test or anything that we're kind of waiting to do or getting results back from. So my health recommendations for patients are pretty much, what do you do every day? How much water are you drinking? How many hours are you sleeping? Are you meditating? Are you stretching? What are you eating? Those are the big questions, not does your stomach hurt?

Eva Sheie (29:44):
Yeah,

Dr. Mait (29:45):
You can get a lot from what they're doing every day. And then you probably go, oh, your stomach must hurt. Like, wow, you're not meditating. You're probably pretty anxious all the time. Right? Am I wrong?

Eva Sheie (29:53):
Tiny incremental habits stacking up over time.

Dr. Mait (29:56):
That's rigght. So when I'm not at work. Well, I have a new baby boy who I'm obsessed with. Yeah, he's great. So he's five months old, so I'm playing with him when I'm not at work. And I have an amazing wife, so when I'm not playing with him, I'm playing with her. I play a lot of music. I write a lot of music as well. So I have home recording studio. So I do that. I read a lot. Right now, I'm just finishing second volume of Show Gun. I dunno if you've ever read that book, but

Eva Sheie (30:27):
I didn't.

Dr. Mait (30:28):
It's a journey, a couple thousand pages. I didn't know that when I started, but it's like watching Breaking Bad. You just kind of stay with it,

Eva Sheie (30:38):
And you can't put it down.

Dr. Mait (30:39):
No, it's down. I'm not reading it the second, but yeah, no, it's great. If you have any interest in Samurai Bushito and futile Japan in the late 15 hundreds, it's incredible. It's like an alternate reality, just how they valued life and the honor that they gave, and their sense of something called wa, like wa, which the Japanese live in an island that's the size of California, or with about 180 million people. That's pretty much half the population of the United States fit into California. But they live in a relative sense of peace. And this concept of law is the individual in the collective. And what that means is the individual not disrupting the flow of the collective, because the peace and the rhythm and harmony of the group is more important than the individual. And it's pretty beautiful. It's like a flock of birds. No one's going to fly out of line. Then it messes 'em all up.

Eva Sheie (31:48):
I like to ask kind of a funny question at the end. The question is, when you're on an airplane and they are looking for a doctor to help someone in a medical emergency, what do you do?

Dr. Mait (32:00):
Yeah, I just look around to see if there's anybody who says, yes, I have a doctor in English to stand up first.

Eva Sheie (32:07):
Has it ever happened to you?

Dr. Mait (32:08):
It's happened. It's happened. They'll say, is there a doctor on the plane? And usually I'll press the button and someone will come over and say, oh, we have a passenger in 38 B who is having a panic attack, or things like that. But it definitely gets my heart racing. Here I am on an airplane, there's no backup. I'm the guy,

Eva Sheie (32:32):
Showtime.

Dr. Mait (32:33):
It's showtime. Yeah. Did I bring my consent form?

Eva Sheie (32:39):
Always worried about risk.

Dr. Mait (32:40):
No. But yeah, it's an honor to be needed, especially in that setting when things are not always as controlled. You don't have the supplies, you don't have your team.

Eva Sheie (32:52):
Do you have a story?

Dr. Mait (32:53):
I mean, I have a great story. When I first started my practice, I just, okay, so back up. When you finish medical school, you think you know everything. You've taken your boards and you start practicing medicine. I'm going to go in, I'm a resident. I'm going to start. And first day on residency, I got called to a code, and it's, you kind of learn pretty quickly that you are not a doctor yet. And it's obviously that you're in a teaching hospital, so you're being called as the resident, but there's an attending, there's medical students, there's senior residents on your staff as well. So that's a wake up call to, I better know what I'm doing because this person's calling for the doctor. And then when I finished training in my residency, a couple of months after that, I had started my practice Pulse and Remedy, and I was at a fundraiser in the Hamptons and for Hillary Clinton, and the hostess of the party was in this big, beautiful $200 million estate in Watermill.

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And she stepped on one of the concrete kind of backyard flooring, and her heel went through the middle part in between two concretes, and she twisted her ankle and she fell. She hit her elbow and she hit her head. And it was almost like the music had stopped and everybody was looking at her. And I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I ran over and someone just called, is there a doctor? Is there a doctor? But in today's economy, there were no doctors. Everybody was a real estate developer and a hedge fund magnet, a private equity, or lived a life of dependency. And so I went over with the Secret Service, we carried her into a back room. And then there I was in a back room two months after starting my practice, Bill Clinton's on my right. Hillary Clinton is on my left.

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I have blood on my hands, and I'm examining this very frail cancer survivor patient who had just taken a spill at this fundraiser. And it was that same moment coming again. You have no backup. You have no other physicians. No nurses. What are you going to do? And I called 9 1 1. No, I'm kidding. But I assessed and I treated and we monitored, and I didn't go back outside, and I just sat with her and she turned out to be great. But it was a great opportunity to shake President Clinton's hand with blood on my hands, which is kind of an interesting.

Eva Sheie (35:25):
That is a good story.

Dr. Mait (35:28):
Yeah. The life of a doctor.

Eva Sheie (35:30):
You never know.

Dr. Mait (35:32):
Yeah.

Eva Sheie (35:33):
Where you're going to end up.

Dr. Mait (35:34):
That's that.

Eva Sheie (35:36):
Amazing you for sharing that. That's a good one. Well, if we're listening today, if we've made it this far and want to get to know you better or potentially come see you, what should we do?

Dr. Mait (35:49):
Yeah, I mean, you can give our office a call. You can go online. So online is Pulse and Remedy, all spelled out.com. You can go and call us at (305) 699-6963. You can go on Instagram to @Docmait, D-O-C-M-A-I-T, or you can go to our online store at maitmethod.com. And then if you're interested in any of our regenerative medicine treatments with Dr. Choxi, you can go to Stems Health, just type that in Google. We should probably come up first, but type in Stem Cells, Miami or Stems Health, and you'll see us, you can read all about us, the treatment we do get a sense, read our blogs. We definitely spend a lot of time writing about what we're doing, the innovative treatments and the law concerning it. Find us, reach out. We'd love to help you. We'll make it convenient. We'll make it worth your while.

Eva Sheie (36:44):
I'll make sure we get all those links in the show notes so they're easy to find. And I'm so glad that I got to get to know you today. I feel like I already know you.

Dr. Mait (36:52):
I feel like I know you too.

Eva Sheie (36:53):
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