Susanne Saltzman, M.D., who has more than 29 years’ clinical family practice experience treating acute and chronic illness in children and adults, is now offering telemedicine in addition to in-person visits at her Hartsdale office. Saltzman specializes in treating autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s disease, as well as mental-emotional disorders such as anxiety, OCD and post-traumatic stress. Her emphasis is on homeopathic and functional medicine to decrease dependency on pharmaceutical drugs.

“People are taking too many of these drugs, which in most cases do not cure but merely suppress symptoms,” she says. “Functional medicine helps address the cause of disease, and homeopathy treats the whole person. A person’s mental and emotional state are just as important as the physical symptoms in the selection of the right homeopathic medicine. The goal of homeopathic treatment is not just to ameliorate symptoms, but also to free the mind of negative, limiting thoughts that are often manifested as physical disease.”

Through telemedicine, Saltzman says, she can take a detailed case while the patient remains safely and comfortably at home.