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Frank Lipman, MD, is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York, New York, where he practices integrative medicine, combining the best of the many alternative practices he has studied with Western medicine. Trained as a medical doctor in South Africa, he became board certified in internai medicine after immigrating to the United States in 1984.
Recognized as a leader in his field, he has been profiled in O Magazine, Time Out New York, and Donna Koran s Women to Women Magazine He has appeared as a medical expert on CBS's Morning Show, Fox's Good Day New York and Ten O'clock News, and NBC's Today in New York. He has been on the cover o/New York Magazine as one of the "in" doctors in New York and named one of the healers for the new millennium by Country Living's Healthy Living. He has ako been featured in many magazines, including Marie Claire, Self, Harpers Bazaar, EUe, Spa Finders, Natural Health, and New Age Journal.
Dr Lipman lectures and teaches frequently on various health topics. He is the author of Total Renewal: 7 Key Steps to Resihence, VitaUty and Long-Term Health (Tarcher-Putnam, 2003) and Spent: End Exhaustion and Feel Great Again (Fireside-Simon and Schuster, 2009) and the editor of the website www.SPENTMD.com. He lives in White Plains, New York.
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM): How and when did you first become interested in practicing medicine?
Dr Lipman: I grew up in South Africa in the '50s, '60s, and 70s, and those days it was sort of automatic: the smart kids went into medicine. I was never really interested in medicine per se, but it was what my brother did and what I was expected to do. I sort of automatically went into medical school. I only got interested in medicine when I qualified and I started practicing.
ATHM: Were your parents or anyone else in your family involved in medicine?
Dr Lipman: My father was a frustrated pharmacist who wanted to be a doctor, but because of financial limitations, he had to go into pharmacy because that allowed him to work and go to school at the time.
ATHM: Was there anything around the household as you were growing...