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As the patient education coordinator for Transformative Health Center, Halie Peytavin can spend a few minutes on the phone with a patient or up to 45 minutes depending on their questions. She describes herself as “an open book,” and gladly shares her own experience finding relief through medical marijuana after a life-long struggle with anxiety and other debilitating conditions.
Transformative Health Center is a Baton Rouge clinic operated by Dr. Rome Sherrod that specializes in medical marijuana evaluations and recommendations. Peytavin says common questions from patients include how the process works, what debilitating medical conditions can be treated successfully and the timeframe for being approved.
“I am there for every patient when they need me, and they know that from day one,” Peytavin says. “Each person is as important as the next, and we just take care of everyone like they’re family.”
Peytavin shares her personal struggles with patients – what she has tried, what the experience was like and what finally worked. “You would be amazed how often I hear somebody say, ‘I’m not alone. Somebody understands. That’s exactly how my anxiety works.’ I’m able to be relatable to people and provide that one-on-one connection.”
Over the years, Peytavin, now 39, says she was prescribed many different types of medication to treat her medical conditions, which…
