Joe McCue

Background

About Joe McCue

I spent four years in art school, three as a philosophy major, and two studying education before I realized I wanted to teach folks to live well. I did my medical prereqs in a calendar year with the aim of entering a chiropractic program, at the end of which I discovered osteopathy and, three months from matriculating called to say “thanks again for the offer and.” But I still needed a degree. With a newly minted (read: myelinated) prefrontal cortex, I decided that if I was going to pursue osteopathy with purpose for nearly a decade prior to practice, I should spend the next two years getting an English lit degree with a focus on marginalized voices critical of the dominant paradigm. I graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014 and pursued an unopposed family medicine residency at a high-acuity tertiary care center on the Georgia/Alabama border. Graduating from Piedmont Columbus Regional in 2017, I spent the next year in osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine fellowship at Eastern Maine Medical Center before settling in to practice osteopathic family medicine in Central Maine. After eleven years of training and practice as an osteopath, I was fed up with the way our medical system seems built to get in the way of good patient care. I opened River Mill Osteopathic as a Direct Primary Care practice to help solve the problem of patients and physicians becoming cogs in a machine that profits from disease rather than proffering health. I practice full spectrum prenatal to grave care with a focus on structural stability and food as medicine. Special areas of interest and training include osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine; medical ethics; evidence-based natural birth and development; the neuropsychiatric roots of trauma; obesity, metabolic disease, and weight loss; and addictions medicine.