Margaret Gold, MD
Functional Medicine, Acupuncture, Allergy
Margaret is a Board Certified Family Medicine physician, 5-Element Acupuncturist and Level III Reiki practitioner with a remarkable history as a physician and healer. The inspiration for her career came from a life-long inner calling to help and serve people. The inspiration to heed this calling came from two powerful women. The first was her mother, a true role model who devotedly served the poor and indigent as a community health nurse. The second was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and a pioneer in the areas of women's health and social justice.
Margaret began her career as a nurse, providing inner city home care to seriously ill patients in Chicago, serving on an AIDS / Hospice unit, and tending to sick children in Neonatal and Pediatric ICU settings. Inspired by the caring and knowledgeable physicians she encountered in these difficult care environments, Margaret decided to become a doctor herself.
She attended medical school at Loyola University in Chicago, and her residency was in Seattle's Providence Hospital. After completing training, Margaret's career paralleled those of her two heroes: four years at Planned Parenthood, along with a decade of dedication as a physician with underserved populations in community health centers. She witnessed firsthand the effects of racism, poverty, and indifference on the health of a community, and she has spent much of her career doing her part to serve those who most need her care, which includes individuals who identify themselves on the spectrum of LGBTQ. Margaret raised two sons as a single parent during this time. She has a unique perspective on the fortitude and resilience necessary to achieve one's goals. She is often found to say that parenting has been her greatest teacher. Since her arrival in Boston, she has started a free medical outreach clinic at a local church in Jamaica Plain, serving the congregants and neighbors of that community.
Throughout her journey, Margaret has been pursuing a parallel track in Integrative and Functional Medicine. Despite all of the knowledge and skill imparted to her by the study and practice of western medicine, she was troubled by the thought that her medicine bag wasn't completely full. She sought and completed certification in Classical 5-Element Acupuncture in Santa Monica in 2006 to add to her depth of specialty practice. It is her experience that the study of other healing modalities helps her to address the root cause of a patient's health concerns. As an advocate and practitioner of western medicine AND as a student and patient of providers in complementary healing modes, her goal has been to bridge both worlds. As an Integrative physician, Margaret chose Visions HealthCare for the sense of community among both providers and patients.
Recent blog posts by Margaret:
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
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Lead, Follow, or Get Dragged
I love to muse over the saying, “The only constant is change”. Whether we are feeling despair over a loss or a disappointment, or exuberantly enjoying a perfect moment…we know, this too shall pass. The only constant is change. I find this truth to sometimes feel disturbing and at other times, it is a comfort. [...]
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Friday, November 25, 2011
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Giving Thanks
There’s this stretch of land I see every morning on my way to work. The Light streams through the trees. The leaves have all fallen. Even the oak leaves, the most resilient, the last to let go. Hangers-on flutter at the edges of the branches. I wonder what hangs on like those oak leaves. What’s [...]
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Friday, November 4, 2011
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Traffic Spirituality
Before coming to Boston, I lived in the country, lucky to have more than gravel underfoot, for ten years. Before I moved, I wondered Ooh, what about those crazy drivers? What about the traffic and the commute? Is it going to be just more time wasted away from home? And how do I make it [...]
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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Visions Welcomes Margaret Gold, MD!
Please join us as we welcome Dr. Margaret Gold into the practice! Dr. Gold is a highly talented physician, with training in a broad range of subjects, and we are delighted to have her on board! Dr. Gold will begin seeing patients at the end of September and will be accepting new primary care patients. [...]
