To my Patients.

As many of you know, our office has now completed two months of transition and I want to bring you up to date with the changes. After 14 years at our Catalina Medical office we have moved to 499 Chestnut Street, which is just behind Ashland Community Hospital. The light from the windows and the view of the mountains brings us out of a feeling of a long hibernation and we look forward to seeing you in this sunny environment.

Spending my clinic days with Leslie and Michael Stone, my new physician partners, has also added an energy to my life that is even greater than I had hoped. They are wonderful, compassionate people as well as well trained physicians. Each day I have the pleasure of discussing clinical issues with doctors of like mind, training, and heart, as we strive to provide each of our patients with comprehensive family medical care. We will soon, again, hear the sounds of new babies as Leslie gets busy with her obstetrics practice. By now many of you have experienced Michael’s depth of knowledge about medical diagnosis, biomarkers of healthy aging, and both nutritional and pharmacologic therapies.

I have been pleased by the positive comments many of you have made to me about the changes in my life. Your understanding of my opportunity to teach and do research through the Institute of Functional Medicine in the Seattle region brings full circle our relationship of mutual respect. The research information I bring back will be incorporated into our clinic’s health care programs. I’m also pleased to hear your delight in the care that Leslie and Michael are providing you. This makes me certain that with three of us working for your health care, the total experience will be a plus.

We have certainly experienced a few glitches as we expanded the office into a new facility and started training new employees. As many of you know, right in the middle of this transition, we temporarily lost the services of Margy–to an acute, serious illness–and Dana, our office manager–her new baby, Grace has arrived. Both are back and healthy. We are grateful to Shana, Serena, and Sarah who helped hold us together. (As Nikos, a patient and friend, said, "I wanted to put on a badge—20 Years as a Patient—to let all the new faces in the office know I’ve been a loyal patient for a long time.") We feel the chaos of the transition is over and the entire staff is ready to serve you in the manner to which you have become accustomed.

Everyone in the office will soon have e-mail addresses through our website. So in the near future, you will be able to contact us in additional ways. The website: www.HealthyLivingHealthyAging.com is up on the internet. Take a look.

Please let your friends know that our office is open for new patients for the first time in fifteen years. We look forward to providing you with an experience that will outshine what we have done for the last 24 years in Ashland.

Sincerely,

David S. Jones, MD

October 25, 2000

To my Valued Patients.

I would like to inform you of some changes and additions we have made in our office. At the beginning of September we welcomed two new physicians to our practice, Leslie and Michael Stone, a wife and husband physician team from Idaho. They share the same philosophy as I do in regards to medical care and treatment and they come to us with over 25 years of experience between them. They have been personal friends for many years.

Leslie Stone is a board-certified family doctor with a specialty in Women’s Health. During her training, she was awarded a fellowship in high-risk obstetrics and gynecology. She has now assisted over 1300 women and their babies through their pregnancies and deliveries. She enjoys providing full-spectrum health care from pregnancy, infancy and pediatrics to all passages of life, with a special interest in the healthy transition of menopause.

Michael Stone is also a board-certified family doctor. Michael brings a master’s degree in nutrition which supports his keen interest and expertise in the biochemical under-pinnings of illness. He has a special interest in childhood illness as well as the chronic illnesses of adulthood. His focus on restoration of health and healthy aging will complement the provision of full spectrum health care in our clinic.

We are currently in the process of having a building remodeled so that we can all be seeing patients together. The move has not yet been scheduled, but we are hoping to be in the new office, located at 499 Chestnut St., behind Ashland Community Hospital, in late October or early November.

I will be balancing my commitment to the education of other physicians at the Institute of Functional Medicine in the Seattle area and with you and your family in my clinical practice here in Ashland. This winter I will be decreasing my hours in the office. I ask for your understanding when scheduling an appointment; you may be asked to see either Michael or Leslie instead of myself. They are wonderful doctors who will take care of you and your family’s medical needs with the same compassion, concern and wealth of information about healthy living and healthy aging as I do.

I look forward to the collegiality my new associates bring into my life, and the continued relationship I have with you.

Sincerely,

David S. Jones, MD

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