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Dr. Lauren B. Richter earned a BS from Pennsylvania State University in General
Arts and Sciences with a minor in premedical education and a degree in osteopathic
medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She chose to
pursue an osteopathic education because it spoke to her belief that the art of medicine
was about treating individual people, not individual symptoms. Long before such
beliefs became popular, Dr. Richter understood that medicine had to be about treating
body, mind and spirit.
Dr. Richter accumulated twenty years of experience in mainstream medical practices in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Then, a successful, personal battle with cancer changed her professional life. After finding that acupuncture restored the energy that cancer treatments took from her, Dr. Richter chose to attend Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. She graduated from Tai Sophia with a Masters of Acupuncture and now is on the teaching staff at the Institute. Dr. Richter currently maintains an active western medical practice in Odenton, Maryland and practices acupuncture at East-West Healing Arts in Crownsville, Maryland.
Over a professional career spanning twenty-five years, her practice of medicine has consistently centered on methods that have the potential to help people become healthy. She has utilized alternative therapies since opening her practice of medicine, and spends a large amount of time learning new approaches to healing. Dr. Richter believes that her role as your physician/acupuncturist is to help you attain the highest possible state of health through whatever means are most effective and appropriate for you as an individual. Dr. Richter specializes in the integration of modern and traditional medical therapies, with an emphasis on the use of natural treatments over medications and surgery. This gives you, the patient, several approaches from which to choose in designing your own health care program. The goal is to find the CAUSE of your problems, and not just cover up the symptoms.