Forest View Medical Clinic

02/02/2024

I don't want to be angry with medicine anymore. It's hard to find a path out of the problem when pharmacy benefit managers and insurance companies make up their own new mini electronic health records for prior authorizations that require us to then document all over again our patient's medical history after we already faxed in the medical labs and answered the questions of the barely medically literate person on the insurance company prior authorizations automated call center so we can get so called authorizations 2 weeks after we send a prescription for drugs that simply work.

At what point does the relentless siege of complete nonsense in our so-called insurance system finally get identified as the source of a significant portion of our collective frustrations of dealing with pointless bureaucracy in this country? How much longer will we all tolerate it?

All of this results in money being paid by employers for salaries for employees who have a single job of delaying care for their employees while frustrating those who are only doing what was asked of them when their employee came to a medical clinic for assistance. Their request for help leads to our pleading to let us help them. It doesn't make any sense.

01/30/2024

Air conditioning in a medical office for 34 days in August is not optional. It's also a violation of the lease. It's also why we had to walk away from the lease and turn mobile/telemed/home visits.

We are not what we were, that's for sure. We are also no longer where we were. We remain a concierge family medicine practice. We are the stronger for it.

We are searching for new patients who know the value we provide to our patients. We invite previous patients to come back to the practice if they have failed to find anything worthy of replacing us. We wish them well if they have though.

Please find the contact information on the website linked below. Our contact numbers have changed. Our address has changed. Our faith, our craft, and our desire to serve patients in a Christ-like manner have not.

A Direct Primary Care Physician taking new patients. If you're tired of waiting, simply can't find one, or are looking for a new physician, check us out.

09/14/2023

Still taking care of COVID, the pandemic no longer happened and/or does not exist. Contact us via the office number. Update about the office itself coming soon enough. We are most assuredly still taking care of this cursed disease.

06/01/2023

An ad hoc pilgrimage starting Sunday 6/4.

The clinic will be with limited operating hours and services next week, starting 6/4-6/11 and possibly a couple extra days after as my son and I set off on a father son pilgrimage.

I had jokingly commented on it to a patient realizing that this will likely be the most profound pilgrimage of my life up to this point. This was before I knew the name of the destination. Now knowing the destination, which drew me to silence and awestruck wonder, I am quite certain it will be the most profound pilgrimage of my eldest son's life.

Today, I went to Immaculate Conception Church in Reno to fill a couple holy water bottles and the Catholic stuff store was open. This is somewhat random. I had felt compelled to stop at the Diocese Cathedrals and fill bottles of Holy Water at each of them, for purposes I cannot yet begin to fathom. So I stopped in, asked about them and the ones on display were the simple plastic ones. They're too big for what I felt was the task. He said he has smaller glass ones. I told him, yes. He went back and grabbed the box. He showed me what they looked like and the icon image of Mary on the bottle. I said, can I buy the box? Sure. I went out to my truck, grabbed my wallet, and came back in. He had a box of entirely different images on them. The images are the Immaculate Conception Mary. I immediately said yes, those. Bought all 12. I also grabbed seven new Saint medals I didn't have. I knew this pilgrimage was gonna get my type of fun. I had told the patient of the profound pilgrimage on the way to Immaculate Conception.

He thinks we are going to Chicago to look at his housing situation for this fall when he departs for medical school. We are. I knew it would be fantastic time together. I told him before I set out to plan the trip that there were a couple other places I wanted to go and we would go into Jackson afterward as its only another 3 hours each way from Chicago. Washington DC is 8 hours from Jackson. While I'm that close, we might as well travel around and visit a few more Cathedrals. The farther I moved across the country writing down all the possible stops at as many Diocese Cathedrals along I-80 as I could, the more the planning took on a life of its own.

Then God also said to look up the parish of where I was in Nyack New York and even looking at the map and thinking about going back to that battlefield got my heart racing. Saint Francis of Assisi Church in West Nyack and I have a divine appointment. Clearly, this place needs to occur. God also brought to mind Hartford CT Archdiocese and the Parish where I interviewed for residency while watching the narrative of Mrs Davis' requesting to be married to Jesus as a nun and the story of her being called to Him. It's the place I was on my knees giving my life to Christ. I can only recall the situation. I don't even remember the town I was such an emotional mess. I would like to go back to the place while having an emotional reserve and see what God does.

I knew I wanted to go back to this place. I have felt the call to go back to what I had referred to as the National Cathedral in Washington DC. I found myself there once before while in DC "sight-seeing" a few years back. I don't even know why I would have picked that location, yet there I was. Now I understand. God can write a narrative so much larger than we can even begin to fathom.

I'll share the narrative of the pilgrimage that right now contains 37 possible Cathedrals and Archdiocese Cathedral/Basilicas while enroute to this destination of a pilgrimage I could never have conceived in my own silly brain. I see no further requirement to bother planning the route home. It'd be getting ahead of myself by adding anything more to what He has already revealed thus far. God be with us.

Stay tuned. I wouldn't even know what to expect from this.

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a large minor Catholic basilica and national shrine in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 400 Michigan Avenue Northeast, adjacent to Catholic University.

04/15/2023

Last fall, the reflection on 2.5 years of intense travels through the COVID pandemic started with my publisher dropping a manuscript on my lap from material I had apparently already written on my practice blog. I was shocked. I was even more shocked at how accurate the observations I had made about this plague were at the time they were written.

If you are/were one of the healer/warriors alongside me who ran into the midst of the COVID plague and you too are starting to come to terms with the damage it did to you, then this book may be how you too start to come back to life. If you're were a patient or a lay person who lost others to the plague, this book will give you the insight to know what those who fought for you or your family. Those of us who survived, did not walk off the battlefield without the wounds and now scars on our souls from the battles. Some were unable to walk off the battlefield and gave their life so that we might return your loved ones to you or you to your loved ones.

If you know people who are the above, then consider purchasing a copy for yourself, and then your person. It's much shorter than the page count as for reasons as yet unrevealed, it has a copy of the CDC's COVID timeline and a glossary of terms in the back. It's a quick read. It is real. It is raw.

It's unlikely there is another physician with the broad spectrum of experience destroying this plague virus. The spectrum runs from ordering the COVID tests for sniffles to holding patients' hands while they took their last breath in the ICU. In the middle of that was the >3500 monoclonal antibody infusions in my clinic. My wife describes it as a field hospital. It nearly killed her too. We witnessed the miraculous, repeatedly. We endured the pain. The volume of the stories for each person who blessed us to fight for their lives is immeasurable. There are babies that are alive because we treated the mothers. Some knew they were pregnant. Some didn't know they were pregnant yet, because they were only 5 weeks.

Sharing that we published a book about it all was something that has been difficult. There is so much contained in the pages of this book that has grown and shaped my entire world view and life. It's a bizarre process to realize that the physicians and surgeons of field hospitals are often as wounded in their souls as their patients' visible damage. There was so much trauma they endure in the fight for the lives of those who sometimes were nearly carried through the door. I am only starting to sincerely and honestly process it all. The healing process for the healer is complicated. It is unlikely coincidental that my wife and I were both baptized and confirmed into the Catholic Church on April 8, 2023 (7 days before writing this post).

Perhaps starting the next phase of my family and my healing is starting to share the story that has already been written while we live the chapters of future projects.



It's time to start healing out of this plague. If you yourself blessed us with your life, or you know others who did, please consider purchasing a copy and reading it. It would help me to know that the healing that started for me in publishing this project didn't stop with me and the relatively few who have read it thus far.

The title, Alive Again, came to my wife and me at the same moment while listening to a Matt Maher song with the same name. We were driving home from the clinic, and we had just had a meeting with our publisher Gary, and we were given the task to come up with a title. The content of the chapters a...

02/20/2023

Updated post with the link to the book sale site.

The entirety of the blog that existed prior to this post has been turned into a book, named as the title of this post. It is available in print and electronically on Amazon.com. It was a profound journey that can only ...

02/20/2023

Long Post, but it must be read to understand what we are doing now and WHY we are doing what we are doing to continue fighting this disease

02/20/2023

Well, here we go again. Part of the retooling is the taking care of people for the acute treatment of COVID. I suppose that is more like reloading, which we have absolutely done, and by necessity have done so in the post mono-clonal antibody availability world we now must work with. The good news is that we are, we can and there are treatments available that remain effective. Nothing in how you reach us has changed. Text or call 775-230-2263 to discuss.

Long Post, but it must be read to understand what we are doing now and WHY we are doing what we are doing to continue fighting this disease

01/31/2023

As we continue the retooling process going forward in the COVID doesn't exist world, one of the things we are starting is Walk-In Wednesdays. See the attached flyer. Contrary to popular belief, we are not a COVID clinic. That was God blessing us to serve those who were stricken with the plague virus. We are a fully functioning family medicine clinic that takes care of whatever comes to us. We don't participate with insurance, because insurance isn't medicine. It's a scam. We are monthly membership model concierge clinic. In the case of walk-in-Wednesdays, because we don't see the 25 patient a day grind, we have the flexibility to see others who are not members as well, quickly. Without 2 month appointments. It is because of this model and the flexibility it gives that we were able to stomp COVID. When others were closed or closing or refusing to see you, we saw you that day or the next and saved a lot of lives doing it. Anyway, take a look at the flyer attached and stop in and say hello. If you bring coffee, it's even better.

12/17/2022

The book is live and available for purchase on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQFD5YQJ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3TOL6E0JFRED9&keywords=steven+j+dalton&qid=1671317557&sprefix=steven+j+dalton%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-2

12/09/2022

Alive Again - the book about the journey will be available in the next day or so on Amazon as an e-book and printed copy a few days later. Thank you to everyone who blessed me with their trust and prayers. I'll post a link here when it comes up. Please share the link on your pages and social media pages as well if you would bless us one more time.

12/09/2022

The Rules of Engagement for the "Blight of the Plague Dragons"

COVID - Exaggerates the weakness, destroys a strength, reveals a hidden

Omicron - The great distractor - it distracts from what is really the problem

Alphabet Unicorn Variant - It hides behind what you think it is. It isn't what you thought it was.

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Cue curtain closing...
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Young Woman: Yeah, My parents both didn't make it through the great die off (Occurred 8 years earlier). My dad died first on the couch. Mom... she made it a few hours later, but didn't have the strength to do anything about it. I didn't really know what to do next. We had called for help from the ambulance, but they never came. After they died, I sort of kept feeding my brother and sister. She died a week later. A couple weeks passed and we were out of food. I went out front to go find help and everyone was dead. I've been watching over him ever since....

Cue final credit roll...

It's even worse when that scene isn't a fictional story, but it is a dream/vision I had last August while taking care of a family in their home in danger of doing exactly what this character describes. We showed up and prevented it last year. This year... /shrug. Call your congressman or something. Maybe they'll show up to save your life with their smiles and promises about policies that are mind-blowingly irrelevant to what matters right now.