Dutch elderly care physician who left the medical system in 2020.

Strelitzia is the practice of Dr. Elisabeth (Lisa) Bennink, a Dutch physician trained as an elderly care specialist, with a Master's in Philosophy from the University of Groningen. For nearly a decade she worked in Dutch nursing homes, hospitals and in patients' own homes, where she honed her skills as an elderly care physician and specialised in deprescribing — the careful reduction or stopping of medications for people carrying a long list of them.

She left conventional practice in December 2020 and moved to Brazil, where she found the space to question everything and to study what she had not learnt in medical school — among that traditional healing traditions, plant medicines and ayahuasca. She now works independently, online.

If you are questioning a medication, weighing a decision for a parent, or trying to make sense of advice that does not add up, this is for you.

• Understand what each medication on your list is doing, and what they may be doing together
• See which complaints may be side effects rather than a new illness
• Understand what a careful taper involves, and what the pace depends on
• Prepare for the conversation with the prescribing doctor — what to ask, and what to bring
• Think through the decisions around an elderly parent: treatment, admission, and the last phase of life
• Make sense of a diagnosis, test results, or a proposed treatment before you decide
• Know where informed consent actually sits in the decision in front of you
• Get medical perspective on preparing for or integrating work with plant medicine

An online video consultation lasts 60 minutes and costs $280.

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