Meet Dr. Iggy Soosay
Still Practising. Still Asking Questions.
I have been in medical practice for over 50 years. Many of my colleagues are retired. I am still here, not from obligation, not from habit, but because the questions that medicine has not yet answered still genuinely compel me.
My background is not that of a practitioner who drifted toward alternative approaches. I came through the centre of mainstream medicine then integrative medicine, as a clinician, and an adviser to the institutions that shape how medicine is practised in Australia.
A Career Built on Rigorous Inquiry
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MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)
FACNEM (Fellow of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine)
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Past roles held during my years in active practice:
Vice President and Senior Lecturer, Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
Founding President, Australasian College of Herbal Medicine
Member, Complementary Medicine Evaluation Committee, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
Part-time Lecturer, Medical Students Program, Monash University
Part-time Lecturer, Registrar Training Program, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Member, RACGP-AIMA Working Party on Complementary Medicine
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Past memberships:
Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (International)
Australasian Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
Journal of Complementary Medicine
I tell you this not to impress. I tell you this so you understand the weight of what comes next.
For the last three decades, my practice has focused on Functional and Integrative Medicine, an approach that looks beyond symptoms to the underlying drivers of chronic illness. Gut health. Hormonal balance. Nutritional deficiencies. Inflammatory pathways. Environmental factors.
It is a powerful framework. Far more comprehensive than conventional medicine alone.
And yet.
There was always a group of patients who troubled me. They did everything right. They followed every protocol. They addressed every identified root cause. And still, something in their health refused to shift.
I began to notice a thread running through many of these cases. Not always obvious. Easy to overlook, easy to dismiss, and even easier to minimise.
Unresolved emotions, held not in the mind but in the body itself, as a physiological reality, not merely a psychological one.
I found myself asking questions that did not fit neatly into any biochemical pathway. Are these stored experiences a form of energy? A vibration? And if so, could they be identified and released?
These questions became the start of a new chapter.
When the Framework Wasn’t Enough
A Deliberate Choice
When I made the decision to step back from medical practice, it was not reluctant. It was not forced.
It was a choice I made so I could offer this work freely, without the constraints that a medical licence, by its very nature, imposes.
Fifty years of practice had given me everything I needed to arrive at this point. Stepping back was not an ending. It gives me the freedom to move in another direction.
What I have found in Energy Medicine is not a replacement for everything that came before.
It is the next layer of inquiry, one that addresses what other frameworks, including Functional Medicine, have not been able to reach.
The research is emerging. The mechanisms are not yet fully understood. But medicine has always moved forward this way, the evidence of what works often arrives long before the explanation of why. Or how.
What I can tell you is this: after 50 years of practice, I do not arrive here lightly.
A New Direction
If You Are Still Searching
If you have exhausted conventional medicine. If you have exhausted functional medicine. If you have done everything asked of you and something still remains…
Biofield therapy may be worth exploring.