Treatment of chronic conditions in our clinic is a team based effort that involves the patient, the patient’s family and his/her physician. This team approach is based on a level of trust, respect and mutual understanding. We believe the role of our doctors is not just to order labs, imaging and to prescribe medications, but we also believe their role is to educate the patients at making the right choice that could alter his/her medical trajectory. For instance, our treatment model with diabetes starts with the patient’s food pantry andrefrigerator. It also involves everyone living in the patient’s house. If a patient has healthy snacks in the food pantry and/or the refrigerator, it will be hard for the patient to “cheat,” and this is a family effort. In the clinic, we reinforce this by providing educational materials, ensuring medication compliance, and creating goals and milestones.