Your First Visit to Sanara Medicine in Lodi, CA
Most doctor visits last 15 minutes. You describe your symptoms, receive a prescription, and leave feeling like you were never heard.
Sanara Medicine does not operate that way. Your comprehensive hormone consultation is the foundation of everything that follows — and it takes the time your health actually requires.
What to Expect at Your Consultation
Your first appointment at Sanara Medicine begins before you arrive. The intake process includes a detailed health history, lifestyle assessment, and a goals discussion that Dr. Ruby Gill reviews before you walk through the door.
Health History & Lifestyle Assessment
Dr. Gill examines more than your current symptoms. She traces patterns across your hormonal, metabolic, thyroid, and adrenal systems. Family history, medication timeline, sleep quality, stress load — every variable that shapes your physiology gets documented.
Goals Discussion
This is your appointment. Sanara Medicine listens to what you want to change — energy, weight, mood, sleep, libido, skin — and maps those goals to measurable lab markers.
What to Bring
Bring your current medications, prior lab results (if available), and a list of your health goals. The more context Dr. Gill has, the more precise your protocol becomes.
Not a 15-Minute Appointment
Sanara Medicine built its consultation model around one belief: rushed care produces rushed results.
The initial consultation gives Dr. Gill time to connect your symptoms to their upstream causes. A patient reporting fatigue, weight gain, and brain fog may have three separate prescriptions from three separate doctors. Sanara Medicine sees one interconnected system.
This unhurried, physician-led approach is why Sanara Medicine maintains intentionally limited patient volume. Fewer patients means deeper care.
Comprehensive Lab Work
Dr. Gill orders extensive lab panels — not the abbreviated panels most primary care offices run. Sanara Medicine tests hormonal, metabolic, thyroid, and adrenal markers to build a complete picture of your physiology.
What Gets Tested
Hormonal panels include estradiol, progesterone, testosterone (free and total), DHEA-S, and SHBG. Metabolic markers cover fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1c, and lipid subfractions. Thyroid panels go beyond TSH to include free T3, free T4, and thyroid antibodies.
Why Extensive Labs Matter
Standard lab ranges tell you whether you fall within a statistical average. Sanara Medicine interprets your results within optimal ranges — the levels where patients report feeling their best, not just "not sick."
Your lab results become the foundation of your personalized treatment program.
Schedule Your Comprehensive Consultation
Ready for a physician who listens? Sanara Medicine accepts a limited number of new patients each month in Lodi, CA and via telehealth across California.