Great News! We are seeing unvaccinated patients in the office! Masks are no longer required, but are ENCOURAGED! If you are sick and/or having COVID-like symptoms/known COVID exposure within 10 days of your appointment, please get a PCR COVID Test and contact the office before coming in! Failure to do so will result in reschedule. We also offer Telehealth!
Medicare, BCBS Medicare Advantage, and BCBS PPO are the only insurances we accept! Self-pay is available for out-of-pocket patients!
We are currently accepting new patients on a case-by-case basis. You may begin the process by filling out the New Patient Letter.
Our Philosophy
Our team is dedicated to serving our patients with love. By using a variety of tools, including Herbal medicine, Homeopathy, nutritional supplements, relaxation techniques, lifestyle techniques and conventional medicine we hope to help you become as healthy as possible. We believe in the wisdom of nature, and at the same time individuality. We also think that it is best to use natural methods as much possible rather than just suppressing symptoms. Lifestyle is the key to good health. We strive to help each person achieve optimal health! Therefore, by combining the best of Holistic and conventional medicine we can achieve the best results for you.
We believe in a partnership with our patients and use the following
Linkner’s Laws of Healing:
- Discovery
- Acceptance
- Letting go
- Forgiveness
The Parkway Center was moved by us in 1987. Watch a fun short video about it.
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which
provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
— Marc Chagall
Meet the Doc
Edward (Lev) Linkner M.D., ABIHM, has been involved with Holistic Medicine for 45 years. He has been in solo practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan for the last 32 years in a Multidisciplinary Holistic Center.
During his first year in medical school at the University of Michigan, he was a founding member of the Ann Arbor Peoples Free Clinic, where he began his interest in healing.
A charter member of the American Holistic Medical Association since 1979, he has been on the board of trustees and served as the secretary. He has been a trustee of the non-profit American Holistic Medical Foundation, and is a founding member in 1996 of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. Since 1977 he has been a clinical assistant professor, advisor, and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School, department of Family Practice. He also has a clinical appointment in the School of Public Health’s Preventive Medicine Residency and is faculty at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital family medicine residency. He is presently not teaching.
In 1979 he co-founded the Institute for Psychology and Medicine, in 1984 the Rehabilitation Health Center (a chronic pain and rehabilitation clinic), and in 1988 The Parkway Center (a multi-disciplinary holistic center). Over the last few years he has been an advisor to various local and national organizations, a book reviewer, written a weekly newspaper column, and hosted a weekly live radio show. He was the author consultant for the book The Complete Book of Home Herbal Remedies, a holistic guide to understanding and treating common ailments with herbs. He was a co-author for the chapter on Genitourinary Health and Cardiovascular Disease in Dr.Rob Ivker’s book Thriving, The Complete Mind/Body guide for Optimal Health and Fitness for Men. He has received the highest honor from his peers of the 2001 Holistic Pioneer Award. He is a medical legal malpractice expert and consultant.
In 2012, the Medical textbook, Rakel’s Integrative Medicine has a chapter on Insulin Resistance/ Prediabetes authored by Dr. Linkner. He was selected by the readers of Ann Arbor based “Current Magazine” to be the “Top Doc” in all of Washtenaw county in 2010 and 2013.
He practices a wide range of techniques including nutrition, botanical medicine and homeopathy, with people of all ages, focusing on the whole person to achieve optimal health and prevent illness.
He has 5 children with wonderful spouses, and 7 adorable grandkids!
Lev considers himself the happiest, and most blessed physician he knows.
“A cheerful heart is a good medicine.”
Proverbs 17:22
Commonly Asked Questions
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What is holistic medicine?
Holistic Medicine is the art and science of healing that addresses care of the whole person – body, mind, and spirit. The practice of holistic medicine integrates conventional and complementary therapies to promote optimal health and to prevent and treat disease by mitigating causes. It is based on the belief that unconditional love is life’s most powerful healer.
My personal definition is: “Unconditional love means being open hearted and available to another person with compassion and respect. The intent is to serve them, with equanimity, regardless of who they are or what they bring to the relationship. This bond is one of loving kindness, acceptance and soul felt connection of truly being present.”
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What are the principles of a holistic medical practice?
- “Unconditional love is life’s most powerful healer.” Holistic physicians strive to unconditionally love their patients, themselves and their colleagues.
- Whole Person. Illness is viewed as a dysfunction of the whole person, body, mind and spirit, and the environment in which they live, rather than simply a physical disorder or a random isolated event.
- Prevention and treatment. Health promotion and disease prevention are preferred to merely managing disease processes. Holistic medical treatment addresses the root causes of diseases as well as managing symptoms.
- Innate Power of Healing. We all have innate powers of healing in our bodies, minds, and spirits. Holistic physicians evoke and utilize these powers to effect healing.
- Integration of Healing Systems. Holistic physicians embrace a lifetime of learning and utilize a variety of safe and effective options in diagnosis and treatment, including education for lifestyle changes and self-care, complementary approaches, and conventional drugs and surgery.
- Relationship-centered care. The quality of the relationship between physician and patient is a major determinant of healing outcomes. The ideal physician-patient relationship is a partnership in which patient autonomy is encouraged and the needs and insights of both physician and patient are valued.
- Individuality. Holistic physicians expend as much effort in discerning a patient’s uniqueness as they do in establishing what disease may be present. This understanding aids in the creation of individualized treatment.
- Teaching by Example. Physicians profoundly influence patients by their own personal example and lifestyle choices.
- Learning opportunities. Birth, joy, suffering and the dying process are profound learning opportunities for both patients and physicians.
- Optimal health is the primary goal of holistic medical practice. It is the conscious pursuit of the highest level of functioning and balance of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of human experience, resulting in a state of being fully alive. Optimal health is well-being far beyond the absence of illness.
Our Staff
Maizey
We have the BEST staff EVER! Together we are a perfect team. Hakam is our receptionist and IT guru, Dawn is our wonderful and kind nurse and manager, Charletta is our new and compassionate medical assistant, and Gayle is our biller who competently understands insurance and finance (Lev doesn’t have a clue)!
In reality we all work together and help make our office so pleasant, welcoming and healing.
Of course our dog, Maizey, is the greatest healer of all!
“We treat all of our patients as family and guide them through their medical experiences and healing.”
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