## Philosophy

My primary purpose is to get sick people well, and the way I feel this is best done is within the framework of Integrative Family Medicine. I believe medicine is much more than just dispensing pills and I take care of each patient as I would want my own family members to be treated. Many issues face us in our goal of leading a productive healthy life. We are living longer due to the improvement in public health, nutrition, and modern medicine. Yet in many ways we have become less healthy. Obesity, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, autism, are consuming the population. Much of what we suffer from is self inflicted and based in a lack of discipline. We have been tricked into valuing the momentary pleasure instead of long lasting health. Our health is an amalgam of the air we breathe, food we eat, thoughts we think, which I have heard put another way, “Health is what we do for our body minus what we do to our body.” Some people come to the doctor looking for the magic pill or to be fixed blaming doctors when they don’t get better, going through a long list of treatments they have done, yet are still smoking, not exercising, eating junk food, and overweight. This reminds me of the joke when a Zen Buddhist opened up a hot-dog stand and his first customer paid with $20 dollars. After waiting, the customer demanded, “Where’s my change?”
“Sir,” replied the Buddhist, “change must come from within.” Unless we make certain changes in our life disease will find us again. Of course using homeopathy, acupuncture, and manipulation it is possible to produce what most would call miraculous results, but it is still imperative that we are doing something for our health on our own. Most of us know that our bodies were designed to heal, if we get a cut most likely we aren’t going to bleed to death and in a lot of cases it will heal without even evidence of what happened. Most of our sickness is simply a defense the body has put up to protect itself as the “check engine light”, and most often in conventional medicine the symptoms are treated, which would be like sticking a piece of tape over the light. The problem is still there you just don’t notice it for now until it is too late and you have to replace the engine. Over the years, I have observed inflammatory bowel diseases go into remission, HA1Cs brought down from 13 to 6, women with PCOS begin regular pain free cycles, and 20 year chronic intractable pain all relieved with alternative therapies which previously had failed conventional treatments. Thus far, it has been my experience that conventional treatments are well suited in the acute setting but are often lacking when it comes to chronic conditions. Bottom line, I want to find what works and does the least amount of harm, whether it is a conventional or alternative method.

## About Dr Ehle

Dr Ehle was born and raised in Texas. Early on, his exposure to medicine varied from EMT and surgery tech training to seminars on nutrition, homeopathy, manipulation and acupuncture with his father (a chiropractor). He received a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Science from Texas A&M and then attended Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of North Texas. During medical school, Dr Ehle worked as an OMM (osteopathic manipulative medicine) teaching assistant and served as president of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Club. He also spent a month with the University of Arizona's Integrative Medicine program run by Andrew Weil and then later in residency completed their Integrative Medicine 200 hour online curriculum. Dr. Ehle received his family medicine training at Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, one of 8 residencies whose program has an integrative medicine component. As a third year resident, he was honored to be elected chief resident. Dr. Ehle is board certified in not only Family Medicine but also in Medical Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine, an accomplishment only a few physicians across the country have achieved. Dr. Ehle’s passion for learning and teaching resulted in an award for STFM Resident Teacher of the year. In addition to his private practice, he works part-time as an assistant professor at Texas Tech University HSC School of Medicine, supervising and teaching family medicine residents the importance of integrative family medicine. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with family, soccer, church, photography, running and biking.

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## About KC Devine

Katherine “KC” Devine has over 20 years of experience as a Registered Nurse in a variety of settings. She was born and mostly raised in Albuquerque. She completed high school in Hawaii and earned her Bachelors of Nursing from the University of Hawaii. As an Army Nurse, she specialized in Pediatrics and spent most of her Army career in the Neonatal Intensive Care. She has lived in South Carolina, Richmond and Washington, DC. After moving back to New Mexico, she decided it was time to expand her scope, so she returned to school to earn her Master’s of Nursing and post graduate certificate as an FNP from St Francis University. She moved to Amarillo in 2013 and practiced as a Nurse Practitioner in a pediatric clinic until she joined Well Life Family Medicine in November 2015.
She is married and has one six year old boy and two adult step-sons. Her husband is a Federal Agent with the Department of Energy. She enjoys reading, yoga and volleyball when she can find the time.
She is passionate about wellness and loves helping people reach their goals. She believes that the key to healthy living is eating well, daily exercising, and abstaining from harmful habits such as smoking. She can’t wait to partner with her patients to see them succeed.

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## Office Photos

Photos taken by David Williams Photography

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