The nature of cancer - education, treatment and alternative therapies for disease management and cure

Reno Integrative Medical Center Founder:
Dr. Douglas Brodie

NOTE:
In winter of 2005, Reno Integrative Medical Center lost a dear friend when Dr. Douglas Brodie passed away (1925-2005). As an author, visionary and world renowned trailblazer in the field of medicione, Dr. Brodie's passion and commitment changed the world forever by opening up exciting new doorways for alternative approaches to healing.

The staff of Reno Integrative Medical Center is very grateful for Dr. Brodie's special talent as a teacher and his willingness to freely share his wisdom and inspiration with the next generation of caregivers. We want you to know that we are committed to carrying forward Dr. Brodie's legacy of innovative health care for many years to come.

Dr. Brodie provided alternative and integrative care to cancer patients, working with several enlightened oncologists to provide the best possible combination of therapies. His innovative treatments utilized many natural substances, including herbal preparations, homeopathics, intravenous vitamins and minerals, biological response modifiers, and a number of non-toxic materials, designed to activate and enhance the immune system. These methodologies are often used in combination with conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation, when these are appropriate. It has been found that such combinations virtually always reduce the adverse side effects of traditional therapies.

Dr. Brodie is the author of Cancer and Common Sense, Combining Science and Nature to Control Cancer, published by Winning Publications, 1997.

Dr. Brodie has co-authored a chapter in the book, Definitive Guide to Cancer, published by Future Med. Publishing, 1997.

Dr. Brodie began his college education at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota and completed his premedical requirements at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

He attended the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating with a Medical Doctorate degree.

Following graduation, Dr. Brodie served one year of internship training at Minneapolis General Hospital, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dr. Brodie then served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force for two years. He served as Flight Surgeon after graduating from the Air University, School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He was honorably discharged with the rank of Captain.

Following his discharge from the military, he began medical residency training at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, California, after one year of training at this institution, he continued as resident in medicine at Highland-Alameda County Hospital in Oakland, California, completing three years of residency training in internal medicine, the last year of which was in the capacity of Chief Medical Resident.

After completion of residency training, Dr. Brodie began private practice in association with Dr. Fletcher Taylor, specialist in internal medicine, in Oakland, California. In connection with his practice in the Oakland community, Dr. Brodie was a member of the hospital staffs of Samuel Merritt Hospital, Peralta Hospital, and Providence Hospital in Oakland, as well as Herrick Hospital in Berkeley. After two year's tutelage under Dr. Taylor, Dr. Brodie entered solo practice in nearby Walnut Creek, California. In this capacity he was a staff member of the Concord Community Hospital in Concord, California.

Dr. Brodie moved to the Truckee-North Tahoe area, forming a multi-specialty group with several other physicians, called the Truckee Tahoe Medical Group. For several years he was a member of the hospital staff of the Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee, California. The Medical Group maintained offices in Tahoe City, Squaw Valley and Truckee, California.

After several years with the association, he changed his status from group practice to solo practice, becoming more oriented toward preventive and non-toxic therapies. In 1972, he began managing cancer patients with alternative and nutritional methodologies. Over the next few years he developed several new and unique procedures for enhancing the immune systems in depleted cancer patients and for potentiating conventional chemotherapy. Dr. Brodie also found during this period of his practice that his methods offered substantial protection against the toxic affects of chemotherapy. In 1976, he entered into a part-time association with Dr. John Richardson, a well-known pioneer in the field of alternative non-toxic methods in the management of cancer.

As a result of his stand on medical freedom and alternative treatment, Dr. Brodie then became a target of the California Medical Board, and like Dr. Richardson, attempts were made to attack his license as well. Both doctors were severely criticized by most physicians and other medical professionals for seeking more effective and more humane methods of dealing with the dread disease called cancer. After three attacks on his California medical license, including two trials, Dr. Brodie was finally exonerated, and his license remained intact.

However, because of the political climate in California at that time, he decided to move his practice to Nevada. In 1980, Dr. Brodie moved his practice to Incline Village, Nevada on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. There, he continued to provide alternative care to cancer patients along with some conventional care as well.

In 1983, Dr. Brodie was appointed by then-Governor Richard Bryan to serve on the newly formed Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners for the state of Nevada. This was the first-ever Homeopathic board established by the Nevada Legislature, and the second in the nation. Dr. Brodie served as Vice President of this board. He continued to be licensed to practice homeopathy in this state until the time of his death and continued to be licensed in allopathic (MD) medicine as well.

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