We had the good fortune of connecting with Laura Drago and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Laura, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
In short? Education for a sustainable practice and model of human health care.

I love what I do, it is truly a large piece of who I am. Intertwined with that love and passion is the passion I have for service to my community, locally and globally.

Our medical system in the western world is largely broken and operating on life support. In addition to this very sick broken system is the fundamental principals it relies upon which are unsustainable (plastic waste for example) and the pharmaceutical interventions the system relies upon rather than a much deeper and wider approach to truly healing human society to be fundamentally healthier. Most see the ancient and enduring practice of medicine I practice as a novel alternative, fringe and somehow less powerful. This is simply ignorance out of what they truly do not know or understand.

Few people in American society, or the world for that matter, have taken the time and spent the money to study what was for me a 4 year full-time education and I can attest as an individual who personally uses the medicine and philosophy, as well as a physician practicing for nearly 15 years, the medicine is not just effective for healing what is sick but for fundamentally changing a persons understanding and power over their own personal health. I have witnessed lives change under my care over and over. It is a blessing in my life.

Early in private practice I had to truly come to terms with the David and Goliath reality I was facing in private practice.

I am outspent by Trillions of dollars and as one practitioner I cannot overcome a system of ill health focused on profit. What I can do, is make my contribution, not just in private practice but by way of education.

Can I save every star fish on the beach after high tide? No. But I can impact one at at time or in groups online. I create raving fans and mouth pieces for the power and potential of such a medicine in every patient i have been honored to serve. One drop at a time, one person at a time approach, to keep this sustainable method alive for future generations.

One day very soon we will all need new ways to be well and heal as the downfall of the western model continues. Leaders in health who can touch and teach others will be needed.

I strive for my impact to be to keep this tradition and knowledge alive in service to the doctors who have done the same for thousands of years. I am privileged to have learned it and I intend to speak and teach and treat for as long as I can in honor and service to these open secrets of health, healing and true well-being.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Currently I am starting over and I plan to switch up my practice. When Covid hit in Los Angeles in 2020 I had a 4 year old at home and had just been divorced and my childs father became ill, so my practice vanished overnight with no childcare. This sent me on a WILD adventure into 5 states over the last 4.5 years (Alaska being my most wild) and I have landed in Vermont, home of Ben & Jerry’s and Bernie Sanders. My baby boy is now nearly 9 and I am starting all over.

In LA I had a full time medical practice on the West Side, working with an office full of other independent doctors and healers. My primary function is to diagnose, educate and treat patients. For me treatment included a full herbal pharmacy where I compounded my own individual and classical formulas for patients, acupuncture, tui-na, cupping, gua-sha, bleeding, lifestyle, diet and emotional support. One stop shopping.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Zuma Beach because it is hidden and special, Venice Beach for the bike/roller skating paths and skateboard parks and Hiking in Pacific Palisades and Malibu where you have the mountains and the ocean all together. Kinesis movement studipd In Culver City for whatever the body needs and Terra for food and a view In Culver City.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Yvonne Farrell, DAOM in Los Angeles who was always on point, both feet in, hard on me and wonderfully supportive. Dana Dovich, LMFT for being my soft hugs and kicks in the ass.

Website: https://NiceNeedles.com

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