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MEDCLUB BARTLESVILLE · One on One With a Professional

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  Good morning, Good morning, good morning, and welcome to Ask the Doctor
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  with doctor Carrie Williams with Med Club, Bartlesfail. How are we today?
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  We're good? Are you well? You know I'm great because I've got a
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  great doctor. By the way, transparency, Carrie Williams is my doctor direct
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  primary care. Tell us about this particular model. This particular model is somewhat
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  new in the United States. It's a practice model where patients make direct contact
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  contracts with physicians primary care physicians to provide them services at mid Club. We
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  have a monthly charge depending on your age, and what that covers is my
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  time, my consultations care for chronic diseases and things like physicals, but we
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  do midchecks. Extra things are extra labs, prescriptions, and we offer those
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  at a club at a discounted rate. Whis really great. It's kind of
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  like a one stop deal there. And you're not finding yourself. You know
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  it's your choice, but you're not finding yourself, you know, going all
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  over town to get things done. You can get most everything you need done
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  right there at Med Club. Artist. Well, yes, sir, and
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  I genuinely more doing them. You are now the advantage, of course of
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  being a member of a med club. You got plenty of But let's take
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  a look at it. You well, first of all, through transparency,
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  you know how much you're going to pay every month. It's not changing.
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  You know getting unexpected bills. Wait a minute, this is medical stuff and
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  we're not getting unexpected bills. No, and this is usually less expensive.
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  The average patient save it over twenty percent that they use versus traditional healthcare interns
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  as far as they're overall cost according to the statistics, and we cut out
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  the middle man. There's not an insurance company with their hands out m M.
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  And the statistics show that if you're a patient of a direct primary care
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  practice, you have, as a general rule, there is a sixty five
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  percent less chance that you will end up in the emergency room on an emergency
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  room visit. Well, that's great, but those are expensive. They are
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  it's a it's not a day at Disney World and for sure, but it
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  may cost as much. Oh my, yes, yes, And what I
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  like is the accessibility I have to the doctor. Yes, we try to
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  do same day or next day appointments. Some people like to book out further,
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  but we do that. For instance, if you've had an unexpected hospitalization
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  and you need to be seen quickly after you've been dis from the hospital,
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  We'll try to make room for you to be seen. And a lot of
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  times the number one advantages is that you get explanations of what's happened. Because
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  the medical field can be very subservient. You don't know what's going on when
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  you're in the hospital, So having somebody to give you a play by play
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  or they did this procedure for that reason, and that's what that's providing that
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  patient understanding gets through. It gets rid of a lot of the fear,
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  and fear is misery, and so if we can help a patient get comfortable
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  with their medical care or what's been done and what to expect, to've really
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  done our job. One thing I like is that the appointments are waiting in
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  a waiting room for an hour, can be seen for five minutes, well,
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  there's no wait to hear. We try not to make any one way
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  and limit the size of the practice. When I was in a traditional medical
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  practice, I had over three thousand patients. At med Club, we limit
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  our patients just seven hundred, so I have time to get to know you
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  and most of the appointments are at least a half hour, and you know,
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  some patients want that, some patients don't. But the explanation going back,
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  the accessibility is a huge thing. Being accessible to a natural physician is
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  huge. Well, you get more personalized care and for a lot of people
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  that goes a long way because we used to kind of being shuffled around and
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  you might only get to see your doctor three to four minutes and tops,
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  yes, and then it's in out by seaa, here's your bill. Yes,
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  And it's not that way there. As a patient, I get to
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  ask questions about you encourage that. Yes, I encourage my patients to bring
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  a list with them to the appointment written please, because you're not going to
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  remember them. That's exactly right. Hey, it getting their questions answered again
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  takes takes the guesswork out by the patient. You can go and read the
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  computer look it up, but getting through the vocabulary is a lot of time,
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  very confusing, and some of the things mean the same thing and understanding
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  oh they did this that means sad and I have to anticipate this coming at
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  me. Yes, every patient is different, but the disease process is kind
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  of with most act similar. One thing I like is that you'll actually bring
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  out a physical book if needed. Absolutely, I'm shure the patient exactly what
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  is going on and why so that we understand it. And that's something that
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  I've never witnessed is a patient in my entire life until being a member of
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  med Club article well, providing that patient explanation and understanding, understanding how that
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  doctor's thinking about you, Understanding this is where this particular organ lives, and
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  showing the patient a picture and say when you talk to the doctor, they're
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  going to be talking left right, antier post here, and how that doctor
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  determines what that means. Then the vocabulary is not so bad. The way
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  that doctor talks to you is not that confusing, but bringing that knowledge level
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  up. Also, if I send a patient to a specialist, I want
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  them to understand what the specialist is going to be thinking about, oh yeah,
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  and what to anticipate and how not give the any answers, but how
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  to answer the questions that have been asked by the specialist. Therefore, the
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  communication is automatically approved by tenfold. Yes, and my patient will be looked
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  at as a cooperative patient so when they want to have back in their office,
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  and that makes doctors are no different than anyone else. If they like
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  you, they'll spend more time with you. Now, the met Club bartletpill,
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  we talked about that, the monthly fee, it covers the primary care
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  consultation. Now we did kind of mention labs and another thing, tell us
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  more about labs and other things if you okay, yeah, for lab basic
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  labs for our office, bloodwork, during other things. And we have discounted
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  prices in comparison to the national labs. We're not adding on what the insurance
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  company would add or what that middleman for processing is. You know what your
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  lab bill's going to be. And also with the medications. I am in
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  a buying group with other direct primary care practices and we get discounted hostel medicines.
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  Oh yes, you do a lot of times it will cost you less
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  to purchase it at mid club, will be cost you what your insurance will
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  cover. Very good. This is all really pretty cool. Now when we
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  take a look at this for IRS purposes, and I know some people do.
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  I know I have to these days because the I R seems to like
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  me. What is there some kind of coding or something that we have to
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  kind of go through here we talked about, I think called a health plan.
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  A health plan, the IRIS does not allow individuals to detect the monthly
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  costs from their taxes. That should and that's basically the only intervention that the
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  IRIS has in this. Now, when we go through a cost and payments
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  from med Club, there is the monthly fee. And also there's a lot
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  of great things that come along with this, because like you said, it's
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  not like every time you visit it's a monthly feed. You're going to visit
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  as much as you need to visit. Correct, So if I need some
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  screening, I can just come in with an appointment and we get that taken
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  care of it. Like say I got an acre of pain. A week
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  later, I can call up and say, hey Doc, yes, and
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  it's still one monthly fee. Yeshow that here? We also text and email
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  my patients and I communicate a lot. Even though you may not see me
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  every month, there's a lot of communications that goes on behind behind the scenes.
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  Your labs are sent to you, I have looked at them. I'll
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  make comments on them, and or X rays or other tests. Patients have
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  questions. You know, my medicine that I started is doing this is this
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  normal or is this not? And also there's access emergency access to me after
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  hours and on the weekends, So that's that cuts down on a lot of
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  the er visits. It does, yeah, absolutely does we keep you well,
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  We'll try. And I put an enorming amount of time into the patients
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  figuring out where they're at, what needs to be done, what they've done,
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  what they haven't done, and get them caught up on their screenings,
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  figure out their medicines. And sometimes I've got patients that are on medicines that
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  don't agree together and adjust things and figure out more than anything, figure out
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  what that patient's goals are. You know, you said meet your patients where
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  they are. I know a fellow who hadn't been to a doctor for twenty
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  years until he visited you, and he raves about how fast you caught up
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  and how fast everything came into play simply because there was communication and propertystic and
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  know we're a patient, what their goals are, how they plan on living,
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  what their goals are. You know, everyone wants a healthy life,
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  but that's not realistic and setting the realistic expectations. Also, it's a little
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  known fact doctors are not reimbursed for reading past medical records in the office.
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  And there are patients who come with hundreds of pages worth of past medical records
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  and that's where doctors find their discrepancies, but they it takes hours to go
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  through them. And my theory on that if it's important enough to hit my
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  office, this is important enough for me to read and understand and see what's
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  been done. And a lot of the costs of a patient are cut down
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  in that step right there, because patients don't remember if they've had a test,
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  but those records will indicate yay or name that is correct, and usually
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  as the result, yes, that is correct, And in understanding that and
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  being able to document that, it's a big deal. Also for traditional healthcare,
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  Medicare and Medicaid, there's something called medical necessity, which is a big
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  nuisance. From time to time you have to prove as a physician why that
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  patient needs that test, and a lot of times there's a lot of hoops
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  to jump through. If I have old medical records that I am familiar with,
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  sometimes I can find medical necessity in those. Now sometimes you're gonna need
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  health care insurance with the direct primary care sometimes tell us about them. Sometimes
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  they sometimes are on catastrophic events things that you don't anticipate. Surgeries, heart
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  attacks, cancers. These are devastating to patients in their financial well being because
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  it's easy to run up chains of thousands of dollars worth of medical bills.
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  Also, if you've got cancer, some of those drugs are exorbitantly expensive,
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  and so a high deductible health care insurance plan is what we recommend to go
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  with this because in direct primary care, we can catch most of these many
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  of the health care needs ahead of time and possibly ward things off or catch
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  them early before they are a catastrophic event. Very good. How do we
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  become a patient of doctor Cary Williams at bed Club Bartlesville. You have a
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  website that will answer almost every question you may have. Also, if you'd
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  like to become a patient, there's a place to sign up online. Mike
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  Electronic Medical Workers were flagged me and tell me to take a look at this
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  and we will contact you and set up an appointment. If you don't want
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  to become a patient, but you have questions, we have one appointment up
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  front that does not contain any medical but will answer questions about med Club for
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  free. I you like that and what is the website again? It is
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  Medclub dot Clinic www. Medclub dot Clinic. Are you located. We're located
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  on Highway seventy a five, across the street from Jimmy six. There you
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  go, doctor, Thank you for being with us today. Thank you,
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