Excerpt from an interview on Rx For Success with Cheng Ruan, MD

“I’m impressed with your humility,” says Dr. Randy Cook. “I think you are far more masterful at this than you are willing to admit. But I think you really are maybe at the very center of something that’s going to be perhaps the most important shift in the way we do medicine in the 21st century. I’m interested to know what you think is going to become of primary care going forward.”

“I think COVID was good in that it really challenges the limiting beliefs about the care of patients,” says Dr. Cheng Ruan. “Okay, so if we look at the beginning of the pandemic, there’s a lot of words used by the media to put the focus on doctors as heroes. I actually have a big issue with that because they started engaging medical students into clinical practice and exposing them at a time where med students are not prepared. They’re not trained to take care of patients at that particular time.”

Dr. Cheng Ruan, MD, is the leader of the Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine, and he has a unique view when practicing medicine. Dr Ruan and team serve their patients with a combination of eastern and western approaches, so patients can get excited about their health and the roadmap that can guide them to a healthier quality of life.

Dr. Ruan comes from a family of Chinese Medical Doctors who focus on natural healing and using food as medicine. The entire team at Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine is passionate about helping patients understand how diet and lifestyle choices affect their immediate health as well as prevent chronic illnesses and the damage that they can do to our bodies. This approach has led to patient successes that enabled the Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine to be recognized by the American Diabetes Association. ☤