Metamorphosis Center for Holistic Medicine, PC
Debra L. Glasser, M.D.Metamorphosis Center for Holistic Medicine, PCDebra L. Glasser, M.D. joined the Takacs Clinic in September 2006. She practices Holistic Internal Medicine as a primary care physician. This means that she sees teens and adults for all of their primary care needs from diagnosis to treatment as well as coordination and oversight of all of her patient’s needs. Her career has come full circle having started out as a primary care internist in Hillsboro from 1984-92 at which time she also did hospital medicine at Tuality. In 1992 she stopped seeing patients in the hospital and transitioned to a holistic consultative outpatient practice in Aurora, Canby and Oregon City from 1992-2006. At the Takacs Clinic she resumed doing primary care, which truly feels like ‘home’ and she hopes her patients feel is their ‘medical home.’ Dr. Debra graduated Magna Cum Laude from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. with a degree in Chemistry and Math. She earned her M.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1980. St. Vincent Hospital in SW Portland (now known as Providence St. Vincent) was where she completed her residency in Internal Medicine for which she is Board Certified since 1983. She has done extensive personal study of holistic and complementary medicine thru the American Holistic Medical Association as well as other organizations. It is exciting for her to come back to primary care with years of practicing holistically and she offers nutritional, botanical and energetic therapies as treatment options, many of which she sells at the office. These are to either complement or integrate with mainstream medical treatments. Dr. Glasser enjoys the diversity of primary care yet finds a few areas of particular interest in that broad field. These include bioidentical hormone replacement, use of flower essences and gem elixirs for emotional challenges and life transitions, and expertise in diagnosing and treating gluten intolerance and food sensitivities. She also particularly enjoys taking care of multiple family members for which she has a number of special families and the rewards that continuity of care bring to her and her patients. Her personal interests include being a mom of her 2 teenagers and passions for downhill skiing, gardening, working on her ‘new’ 100 year old home, running with her Norwegian elkhound, cycling, and most recently sailing. Q: What is the difference between Internal Medicine and Family Practice? A: All physicians attend medical school for four years and are exposed to many specialties in that process. Then, most physicians complete a residency to learn their chosen specialty. Internal Medicine physicians do training intensively in hospital medicine, focusing on diagnosis and treatment of diseases of adults. Many internists do additional training to learn more about skin, gynecology, and orthopedics, for instance, that are not specifically addressed during hospital training. Family Practice physicians, on the other hand, have a broader experience in diagnosis and treating both children and adults, as well as obstetrics. Adolescents are a unique age group who are cared for by a number of specialties including internal medicine, pediatrics, and family practice doctors. Both Internal Medicine and Family Practice physicians work as primary care physicians. | 
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