Dr. Leonard Kaplan of OWM Integrative Wellness

Dr. Leonard Kaplan has spent decades studying wellness and has built a practice that incorporates integrative, regenerative, and functional medicine into the treatment of the patients at OWM Integrative Wellness. Host David Pfalzgraf and Dr. Kaplan explore a life dedicated to developing an understanding of the human body and its systems, the future of medicine, and more. 

Highlights include:
- Following in dad's footsteps
- Having an early idea of what the future might hold
- Choosing osteopathy over traditional medicine
- Why Chicago?
- Military service and medicine
- Deciding between Walter Reed and Madigan
- Buffalo Spine and Sports Medicine
- Falling in love with Buffalo
- Struggling to balance insurance reimbursement processes and patient care
- The significance of forming a relationship with patients
- Removing insurance as an obstacle to care
- Becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable
- Manifesting (AKA: Making it Happen)
- Starting an integrative medicine practice
- Developing a passion for serving like-minded people
- The independent spirit and building equity
- Having faith in the practice
- Finding the right space
- The intrinsic drive to never quit
- Stewarding Buffalo's history
- Cultivating resources for continued learning
- A healing environment to heal a body
- Preparing against disease 
- Obtaining superior outcomes through cooperative care
- Providing techniques that aid everyone from young athletes to the elderly
- The Recovery Lounge, and what the future holds
- Not accepting the no
- Finding pure joy outdoors