He calls himself the platypus of medicine because the variety of healing modalities used in his practice distinguishes him from his peers. It is clear, however, that his passion and gift is classical homeopathy, which constitutes about 50% of his practice. While his use of functional tests is discretionary, since the application of homeopathy does not depend on lab results, Dr. Glidden did point out that he is doing relatively more testing for heavy metal poisoning and is seeing it as a growing cause of many chronic health problems.