Meet Dr Bloem

My healthcare journey started in my late teens when I decided to apply to medical school because I wanted to help patients with their health concerns. After graduating from medical school in Leiden, the Netherlands, I applied for internship and residency training in the United States. After an internal medicine internship, one year of anesthesiology residency, and two years of family practice residency, I started practicing primary care medicine in Maryland.

After practicing as a conventional, allopathic physician for several years, it became clear to me that Western medicine as it is being taught and practiced by most physicians today has significant limitations. One of the main concerns that I had was that many of the conventional medical treatments do not address the underlying causes of a patient’s illness. I recognized that many common diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and others had a correlation with obesity. However, like most physicians, I felt unprepared to help my patients lose weight.