WellnessFX Experience/Experiment Part 2
WellnessFX Experience/Experiment Continued from Part 1
Now this is more like it! By "it" I am referring to the selection of practitioners and the wealth of info provided for each one of them. Most of the WellnessFX practitioners are women, which fits me perfectly. Dudes are great, but I prefer a woman doctor, nutritionist and well, a woman most things. I wasn't that kid with pro football players posters on my wall as a kid. I had the Heather Locklear posters, a-plenty.
For me the filter/search box in the practitioner section is perfect. I am personally mostly interested in Paleo-friendly practitioners and the option to pick from medical doctors, nutritionist or both is pretty cool. In my previous post I was critical of having only two options to pick my practitioner from and while I am still sticking to my guns on that, it would appear that the stable of awesome practitioners I was wishing for, is in fact at my fingertips.
Picking a guru is not as easy as it sounds. I now have a huge stable of gurus to choose from and seeing how none of them are known names to me, I really have to do my homework to find someone who fits my needs.
Feature Request: @WellnessFX does in fact read these users blogs/articles and they were very cool to me on the previous article. So, I'll add another feature request here. I'd love to see Twitter handles and links to blogs and websites for each practitioner. Anything that can help me stalk these people properly and be totally comfortable with them, the better.
It's about to get silly, if you're a skimmer fast-forward past the bullet-points
Here is a little unfiltered access to the inside-voice in my head as I roll through these practitioners:
I dig the doctors that list brain, mental health and stress reduction
I love that many of the woman doctors list "women's heath" but they never really mention guys heath
I had to Google "Bariatric Nutrition" that is actually a big plus. She knows some stuff I've never even heard of, but I've avoid major surgeries to this point.
Good old Ben Greenfield, cool dude but just a bit "sleazy car salesman for me"
If there is a link to a website, it better look damn professional. This is my health we are talking about here
Seeing Paleo and Vegetarian listed in "specialties" doesn't make me think a practitioner is passionate about diet. I mean a mechanic will fix any car, because they get paid to. But I want a practitioner who lives they diet there going to talk to me about. You either eat meat or you don't.
I dig girls in wet-suits. Not sure how it applies to wellness, well, maybe I get it…
I hate to admit it, but the old dude doesn't sell me (I know I am swimming in the shallow-end here) … wait… this guy has a great bio, but he really needs to update his picture to something other than that silly suit. He has videos on his site as well that is very cool.
Some of these people just don't speak my language, a little too spiritual, not enough science!
Okay, WTF, why does one person cost more than the others? Seriously?
Well, after that exposure to my inside-voice it should be clear that there are a few issues here:
Sally Smith, MD is evidently way cooler than all of the other practitioners. You see, if I would like Sally Smith (who I'd chosen as my "Primary" before the lab-test) it will cost me an additional $50. This sucks. I mean, talk about a buzz-kill.
Feature Request: Please make the consultation expectations a bit more obvious in the future. I thought I got any wellness practitioner/expert I wanted for my $175 (typically $200). If I'd payed the full $200 for the package and then found out I had to pay $50 more for the practitioner I chose before the blood test, that'd be 1/5 more and suck 10 times more.
For those of you skimming, let me break this down for you in short-hand:
Part 1: Buying the product and getting your blood test is simple and easy. There are a few user experience elements on the website that need to be address as you input your personal data. But, it's doable.
Part 2: Selecting the wellness practitioner can be a bit of a let down. You do in-fact get a stable of experts to choose from, but… getting a consultation with a medical doctor will cost you an extra $50. I didn't catch this when I read-up about the features of the Baseline product and in my defense, WellnessFX had two ideal places (Expert Consultations pop-up verbiage and the paragraph: Recommendations to Optimize Your Health) on the product page of their website to mention this medical doctor upgrade charge. In defense of WellnessFX, they do in-fact state this in the FAQs. (bottom of the product page, expand #6)
It reads: "WellnessFX has a wide variety of practitioners available with different backgrounds and specialties. WellnessFX Baseline includes a nutritional consult. If you view your results and decide that you’d like to upgrade to a consult with a medical doctor, you may do so when you schedule your consult."
Here are a few tips if you're looking into the Baseline Product from WellnessFX:
The practitioners you see in here, don't really represent what you'll see when you get to the actual picking of practitioners
A consultation with an actual medical doctor (MD), will set you back another $50
Look long and hard for a discount code. They are few and far between but you'll find a few floating around the web or in your email if you can wait it out.
and lastly, a bruise like I've never had before form a blood-draw.
