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 — and more. Nearly 100 biomarkers are reviewed.
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.