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How this Health Care Provider Discovered Essential Oils
And Why I Use Them

Always on a Salary

Dr. Schibly

Over the many years I have worked as a physician I have held a variety of different jobs. But until recently, I was always paid a salary.

After graduating from medical school I decided to make a little money before going on to do a residency. So, I completed a rotating internship and then began working in an ER.

As an ER physician I was an independent contactor, and was paid by the hour.

It wasn’t a lot of money and there were no benefits, but I was young and not concerned about illness or injury interfering with my ability to work. And, it was pretty easy to increase my income if I needed to. . . I just worked more hours!

Now, if you have ever worked in an emergency room, you’ll probably understand why, after 5 years of this, I was ready to get out. But I wasn’t ready to select a residency.

So, when I received a brochure from the US Navy, recruiting physicians for their Undersea (diving and submarine) Medicine Program, I didn’t hesitate to apply. I was accepted, so. . .

I ran away and joined the Navy!

In the Navy . . .With a Secure Military Salary

After joining the Navy, I attended submarine school in New London, Connecticut followed by Navy dive school in Panama City Florida.

After that, I completed a 3-year operational tour with the submarine force at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo CA. This was followed by a 6-month  deployment to the United Arab Emirates during Desert Storm.

All while I received a very secure military salary.

From Submarine and Diving to
Preventive Medicine

At the conclusion of Desert Storm my operational tour ended – and it was finally time to complete a residency.

I chose preventive medicine: an important specialty in the military but one I hadn’t even heard of when I was in medical school. So, I moved to Bethesda MD, home of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).

There were no openings in the preventive medicine residency program at USUHS at the time, so I spent the next 2 years working in the diving medicine division of the Naval Medical Research Institute and then as head of Diving an Submarine medicine at the Navy’s Research and Development Command waiting for a slot to open up. 

Once that slot opened up  I was able to complete my preventive medicine residency. I then spent the next 3 years working as an epidemiologist at the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 2 in Norfolk VA

All on a very secure military salary.

Going Without. . .

Now, I loved the Navy and would have gladly have stayed in until I was eligible for retirement. But father was ill so I decided to separate from the military to help care for him.

As a result, I found myself without a job.

And without an income.

Fortunately, following my father’s death, a Navy friend of mine was able to help me get a job at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick MD.

And once again I was on a salary, albeit not as secure a salary as my previous military one.

I was a civilian now, not a military officer. So, after 5 years, when budget cuts eliminated the job I had been hired to do, I found myself out of a job – and without an income once again.

This was during the height of the war in Afghanistan and, by this time, I had I had joined the Army reserves.  And, as fate would have it, just as my job at USAMRIID was ending I was called up to fill in for the preventive medicine physician at Ft. Campbell KY.

And I was receiving a military salary once again.

I Say Good-Bye to a Secure Income

I liked working at Ft Campbell, but the billet was only for 6-months, so I clearly needed to find some other way to secure an income.

Fortunately, while I was at USAMRIID, my friend had invited me to attend a conference in “anti-aging medicine” with her. I did, and later learned how to prescribe bioidentical hormones. As a result, I was able to find work as a contractor in an integrative medicine office.

In all my years working as a physician this was first time I was not being paid a secure salary.

Instead, my income was now totally dependent on how many patients I saw each week. So, when those patients didn’t show up or cancelled their appointments, I was not happy!

As a contractor I also had no benefits, so I also worried about developing an illness or incurring an injury or disability that would prevent me from working. (This became an even greater concern when I learned my dentist was forced to retire after suffering a stroke.)

Now, at this point in my career, I didn’t prescribe many medications, but I did use a lot of supplements. I saw how much these supplements helped my patients by improving their physical and emotional health– and how much they helped me by providing a passive, recurring income!

But I soon learned that patients can only tolerate so many pills.

So, when I discovered essential oils – oils that can be inhaled or applied topically that could both help my patients’ physical and emotional well-being and create a potentially large recurring income for me - I jumped in with both feet!

An Invitation to Financial Security

That was 6 years ago and I have been using essential oils both personally and in my practice ever since.

I created this website as a way to help other health care practitioners and owners of wellness-oriented business achieve their own financial security with essential oils.

Although this project is just starting, it is my intention to use this website to build a community where we can share our insights and experiences with essential oils to help each other succeed.

I invite you to join me on this journey!

If you are totally new to essential oils you’ll want to start with the basics, but be sure to read through the section on making money with essential oils.

Then, if you decide this is something that would help you, your business, and your family, please contact me.

Let’s get started!

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