The 90 Minute Checkup

The Case of Mind-Body Medicine

by Shawn A. Tassone, M.D.

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90 Minute Checkup—A Doctor's Discovery of Health

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Shawn Tassone, M.D., is a board certified OB-GYN, Ph.D. candidate in mind-body medicine and author of two books.

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About The 90 Minute Checkup

The 90 Minute Checkup is a place to see what the doctor-patient relationship could achieve in a world where time was sacred; where the space of healing was a routine 90 minutes instead the unfortunate 10 to 15 minutes in the current paradigm. Let's look at different dis-ease processes through the lens of integrative health and the mind-body connection