She came into David Feldman’s office as a last resort. Mira, a young mother of three (whose last name is redacted to maintain confidentiality), had been suffering from debilitating migraines for the past year. The migraines kept her sequestered from her children and usual life, and she had to spend most days in dark rooms away from any noise. The medicine she’d been using for over a year wasn’t helping; it was time to shake things up.
She’d heard of Feldman and his work through friends. They told her about Bio-Control, the holistic medicine and acupuncture company he leads. Feldman and his team got to work. They took their time to interview Mira, going into every detail of her illness history and symptoms, followed by a head-to-toe evaluation of the patient. That guided the team to run a number of diagnostic tests in order to triage their initial assumptions and get to the bottom of the problem. To Mira’s surprise, they found an invasive bacteria in her spleen that had been affecting Mira’s large intestine and causing the migraines.
“She phoned about a week after the visit and antibiotic treatment and said, David what do I do because I have no migraines,” Feldman said. “I was kind of nervous because usually migraines don’t disappear in a week. “But she never got it again.” Six years later, she is yet to record a recurrence of those migraines.
Since 1998, Feldman has been running Bio-Control, a clinic in Israel that specializes in Electrodermal Screening (EDS), a technique that marries traditional Chinese medicine principles with modern electrophysiology. A computerized device takes measurements of the electrical resistance of the skin on various acupuncture points to gather information about the body. Doctors can detect allergies, poisons and a variety of other conditions within the body that cause systemic imbalances and then suggest the ways of addressing them. It’s a kind of medicine that prioritizes a personalized approach to patient care and deals with the human body as a whole. To succeed in this approach, doctors must have multidisciplinary training and skills combined with rich practical experience. And they need to collaborate with other specialists and multidisciplinary care teams to select and administer the best possible treatments for any patient-specific situation.
A Life in Medicine
David Feldman never thought he’d be a doctor. He started out his professional career as a corporal in the Israeli Defense Forces, before joining Bank Leumi, one of the leading banks in Israel. When Leumi expanded into Canada, Feldman was transferred to Toronto to help grow and manage cross-continental operations.
“They decided that they needed my skills in Canada,” Feldman says. “So they asked me to move over, relocate with my family. I agreed.”
After five years of long hours and sleepless nights, Feldman left corporate banking and started his own consulting firm. That’s where he met a medical professional who was pioneering the use of EDS and acupuncture in Canada. He was fascinated in a fundamentally new and personalized approach to medicine, in seeing the results and positive impacts it had on a patient’s health and wellbeing. The rest, Feldman said, is history
He learned all about electro screening, about its massive growth here in the United States, about its potential to revolutionize the ways we study and teach modern medicine. Before long, Feldman was leaving consulting behind and jumping headfirst into yet another career path.
“I decided to leave all the other careers because opportunity knocked on my door,” Feldman said. “To help people get well and feel better. I decided to open the door and take it.”
That’s when his wife, Shoshi, decided she wanted to go back to Israel. They opened their own clinic, and Feldman became the main administrator for U.S produced electro dermal screening products in Israel. He also helped develop a market for EDS and establish practices in a number of European countries.
Today in Israel, he and Shoshi run their own clinic. Feldman also trains medical professionals and aspiring clinicians in the art and science of EDS. He estimates having mentored over 120 clinicians worldwide.
“Every day is a different day. And that’s what I like by the way. When I wake up in the morning I say: OK, what surprises will we have today? Basically the day to day is work at the clinic and in between answering prospects who would like to open their own clinics. How to do it, what to do.”
Only by Results
His work with each patient mirrors that of the breakthroughs with Mira. First, Feldman runs a diagnostic test, scanning for any irregularities within the body and getting to the route-cause of the problem.
Feldman knows there are skeptics of holistic medicine. It’s difficult to accept a treatment philosophy that is thoroughly out of the mainstream of modern Western medicine. But he points to results — tangible data points that prove the efficacy of his approach.
90%. That’s the rate of patients Feldman sees whose ailments are cured by his electro-acupuncture methods. To be counted in that ratio of success, patients must not experience symptoms of their prior ailment for at least six months. Without a trace, it must disappear.
Feldman said that’s how his work should be judged. Not by preconceived notions or biases, but by cold hard data and numbers.
“Only by results,” Feldman said. “You cannot measure success by how much we tried. It’s irrelevant. As a former business person I can tell you, it’s irrelevant how much you try. It’s a nice argument but how much you tried basically doesn’t mean a thing unless there is a result.”
He wants to keep opening clinics — in Israel and elsewhere. In Turkey, where Bio-Control had a strong presence before the rise of current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And throughout Europe, where there’s a proven market for electro-acupuncture techniques.
Feldman does not need sophisticated marketing campaigns to advertise his services. He just needs to keep putting the word out — through proven success and word-of-mouth advertising.
“It’s like a snowball,” Feldman said. “It had to have initial mass in order to go and get to move. We are right now in Israel, far beyond that starting point of the snowball. We’re in the midst of an avalanche in terms of people who come to our practice and truly benefit from our approach.”
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