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Eastern & Western
Two traditions, one body. Western precision; Eastern patience. The work is in the bridge between them, not in choosing a side.
The physician
Kristy King, MD
A family physician at the seam of Eastern and Western medicine, practicing on the Kohala coast of Hawai‘i.
In her own practice
A physician at the seam of two traditions, in the place she calls home.
Kristy King is a board-certified family medicine physician practicing on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. She built Embody Medicine to do something her training kept gesturing toward but rarely had time for: care that takes the long arc seriously — the genes a person carries, the soil they live on, the meals and movement and sleep that compose a body over decades.
Her practice sits at the seam of two traditions. Western medicine, with its instruments and its precision. Eastern and integrative medicine, with its patience and its attention to pattern. She does not consider the seam a compromise. She considers it where the real work happens.
She lives on the Kohala coast with her family. The land — pasture above, ocean below, lava in between — informs the practice more than any textbook does.
Credentials.
Formal medical training
- Board-Certified Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family Medicine
- Fellowship — Integrative MedicineUniversity of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
- Residency — Family MedicineUniversity of Washington
- Medical Degree (MD)
Additional training
- Bioidentical Hormone Replacement TherapyAdvanced training & certification
- Somatic MovementPractitioner training
- Lifestyle MedicineSpecialty training
- Whole-Food NutritionClinical training
- Environmental & Regenerative HealthContinuing education
Licensure & access
Dr. Kristy King, MD is licensed in multiple U.S. states and provides virtual physician consultations for eligible patients where permitted. In-person visits are offered on the Big Island of Hawai‘i; ongoing care is delivered virtually within the states in which she is licensed.
A practice philosophy
Whole-person, longitudinal medicine.
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Whole-person
Bodies do not arrive in isolated systems. Care that pretends they do will keep missing the pattern. We work in the whole.
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Environment-aware
Health is not just genome. It is the soil, the water, the air, the season, the people. Embody works in the place a body actually lives.
“The most useful question in medicine is rarely what is wrong with this person. It is what is this person’s body trying to tell us. The instruments are the same. The orientation is different.”
Hawai‘i
Kohala, the Big Island.
The practice is rooted on the northwest coast of the island — pasture above, ocean below, volcanic terrain in between. The land is not the backdrop. It is part of the medicine.
Visits are conducted in-person on the Big Island, with a telehealth option for established patients who travel.
A note from Dr. King
“I begin relationships deliberately. If we begin one, I would like it to last.”
— Kristy
Begin
If you’d like to begin a relationship, the first step is small.
A complimentary fifteen-minute introductory conversation with Dr. King. The next step, when appropriate, is the Initial Physician Consultation + Systems Review.
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