Longest Practicing M.D. in the City!

When James P. Frackelton, M.D. opened his family practice in Westlake in February, 1958, he was one of five medical doctors practicing in the city. During 1958, four of the doctors left Westlake leaving him as the only practicing medical doctor in Westlake for one month. Fifty years later, he is still in business as the longest practicing medical doctor in Westlake!

Both medicine and Westlake have changed dramatically since then. Dr. Frackelton recollects that in 1958, Westlake consisted of vast tracts of farmland with some suburbia. He recalls routinely making house calls at the cost of $8.00 cash. Office visits were $4.00 cash. To put things in perspective, a loaf of bread sold for a dime.

A native of Lakewood, he graduated from Lakewood High School in 1945. After graduating from Yale in 1949, Dr. Frackelton received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine (Western Reserve University at the time) in 1954. Prior to establishing his practice in Westlake, he spent two years in Hawaii as a flight surgeon attached to the United States Marine Corp Air Station on Oahu. He says it was quite a shock to come to northeastern Ohio from Hawaii due to the cold!

Dr. Frackelton found family practice exciting. He recalls delivering hundreds of babies, most in the middle of the night. He was active at Lakewood and Fairview General Hospitals and started the Family Practice Residency at Fairview General Hospital. He was the football doctor for Westlake High School and president of the Westlake Kiwanis.

In 1976, his interest in nutrition and alternative medicine developed to the point that he changed his practice from family practice to a preventive alternative medical practice founding Preventive Medicine Group where he practices to this day. At the time, he was one of the first doctors in the country to enter into this medical approach and the first medical doctor in the metropolitan Cleveland area to do so. He is a past President of the American College for Advancement in Medicine, the foremost alternative medical organization in the world.

This type of practice involves testing the patient in order to help increase life expectancy, reduce drugs and surgery,and correct nutrition. Dr. Frackelton has found the rapidly expanding interest in this field professionally rewarding since his patients are interested in health and not just disease care.

Dr. Frackelton has three sons. His wife Marilyn ("Polly") died in 2007. Her great grandfather received the first Medal of Honor in the Civil War and she gave it to Congress in July 1990. The Jacob Parrott Medal of Honor is now in permanent display at the West Point Museum.

Dr. Frackelton looks forward to years of future practice at Preventive Medicine Group located at 24700 Center Ridge Road where the organization has grown to include three additional medical doctors and one naturopathic physician.

Preventive Medicine Group is the private medical practice of James P. Frackelton, M.D., Derrick Lonsdale, M.D., Stanley Garderner, M.D. and Laura DeVincentis, N.D., R.Ac. The practice emphasizes family care, healthy eating and nutritional supplements, healthy lifestyles, energy medicine, acupuncture and preventive medicine.

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