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HEALTH AND WELLNESS 1-15-25 · One on One With a Professional

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time
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  Speaker 1: now for one on one with the pro right here
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  Speaker 1: at KAY one, the one you trust. I'm Tom Davis
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to be speaking here with our neighbor
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  Speaker 1: next door at Health and Wellness, Mss Aaron. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great?
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  Speaker 1: How are you well? Wonderful? But I if I start
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  Speaker 1: feeling bad, I know where to go.
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  Speaker 2: That's right right across the street.
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  Speaker 1: You got convenient hours too, I might I might say
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  Speaker 1: seven days a week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seven days a week Monday through Friday seven am
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  Speaker 2: to seven pm. And on the weekend we're open nine
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  Speaker 2: to five. So we're always there for you, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. You guys take care of all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of different things, and you even get ahead of things
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  Speaker 1: on preventative health too, And that is something a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are starting to look into, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It is, especially you know, it's a new year, so
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  Speaker 2: people are starting to kind of think about what they
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  Speaker 2: want to do differently in twenty twenty five, So that
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  Speaker 2: is definitely It's definitely something we're seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people come in and ask about. So that's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we do there.
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  Speaker 1: Now when we talk about health and wellness, you do
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more than listen to a heartbeat, take
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  Speaker 1: of polls and say, uh, you do all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: things with your wellness visits. You have everything from what
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  Speaker 1: like labs, vitals, and just all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, we can really do know everything that kind
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  Speaker 2: of a stater primary care clinic can do. We can
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  Speaker 2: do all the labs, we can do all that point
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  Speaker 2: of care testing. As we are seeing flu a lot
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  Speaker 2: in Oklahoma now COVID, so we can take care of
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  Speaker 2: all of that for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it is that time of the year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after the holidays and everybody's been around each other and
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  Speaker 1: around each other's kids do because they've been at school
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  Speaker 1: and they've been around plenty of people. A little sharing
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  Speaker 1: comes post holiday and that they usually comes to the
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  Speaker 1: form of colds and flu.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine, Yes, it definitely does. We are we're seeing,
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  Speaker 2: like I mentioned, an uptake of flu in Oklahoma for sure.
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  Speaker 2: We've been seeing a lot of that in our clinic
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  Speaker 2: here in Bartlesville. So yeah, if you're starting to fill
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  Speaker 2: a little onto the water, definitely come in and we
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  Speaker 2: can get you fixed up.
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  Speaker 1: We getting that RSV thing going around here too, a little.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some of it. A lot of kids are
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  Speaker 2: getting RSV this time of year is pretty common as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Now when we talk about our clinic,
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  Speaker 1: youre health and wellness right here at the corner of
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  Speaker 1: Quappa and Frank Phillips. It doesn't look like a huge building.
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  Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to be a huge building. You're
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  Speaker 1: not running a hospital. We are running We are running
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  Speaker 1: a clinic here and you guys make great use of
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  Speaker 1: your space.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we're a pretty small building, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: We really just pride ourselves on using the space that
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  Speaker 2: we have efficiently. Even though we are small, I like
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  Speaker 2: to call a small but mighty, we can still offer
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  Speaker 2: everything that you know, most primary cares are going to offer,
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  Speaker 2: you know, full visits. We do prevented a health urgent
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  Speaker 2: care needs wellness visits. So just because we have a
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  Speaker 2: small building, it doesn't mean that we can provide less
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  Speaker 2: care than maybe a facility that is larger than ours.
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  Speaker 2: But it does mean that we're going to provide more
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  Speaker 2: personal life care. We aren't going to have you know,
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  Speaker 2: a big slew of patients and the building out. Once
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  Speaker 2: we're di scheduling a little bit longer visits, we can
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  Speaker 2: spend more time with our patients. So yeah, even though
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  Speaker 2: the building is small, it doesn't mean that our care
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  Speaker 2: is small.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, not at all. In fact, it's quite mighty.
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  Speaker 1: I've known people who who've come by for a visit
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  Speaker 1: and they see, my goodness sakes, you'd be surprised what
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  Speaker 1: they can do in there. And it's really interesting too.
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  Speaker 1: I understand you even do some telehealth as well. Is
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  Speaker 1: that is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: We do? So our model is unique. So I'm the provider,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a position assistant. I'm the main provider that see
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  Speaker 2: patients there, and you know, some days I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: clinic seeing patients in person, and then other days I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually remoting into the clinics. So we have really cool
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  Speaker 2: telehealth equipment where we can listen to heart and lungs,
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  Speaker 2: we can look in ears and throats, so even if
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  Speaker 2: I'm not physically on site, you can still get the
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  Speaker 2: same level of care. We have wonderful, two wonderful LPNs
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  Speaker 2: Katie and Rachelle that work there and they are sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they act as as at my hands essentially, but they're
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  Speaker 2: still able to do the same testing to still draw
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  Speaker 2: the same labs, they're able to give the same medications.
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  Speaker 2: So really, this model allows us to expand access to
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  Speaker 2: care by spreading providers out among multiple communities, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's different. But I will say that we've yet to
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  Speaker 2: have a patient that was unhappy with their cares it
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  Speaker 2: was a telemed based visit. So it is our model
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  Speaker 2: is unique. But we believe that it's the future of medicine,
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  Speaker 2: and we believe that it's a way to expand good
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  Speaker 2: quality healthcare to lots of different communities.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, and you're doing it quite well, you know, Like
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  Speaker 1: you say, you're not packing up a waiting room because
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  Speaker 1: that's just not the model. And that is also a
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  Speaker 1: good thing too, if you're a person who might be
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  Speaker 1: susceptible to things, for thinking, oh, the last thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to do is go to the doctor's office to
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  Speaker 1: get sick, and it prevents that right then and there.
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  Speaker 1: But no, really, you've got it all right there being
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  Speaker 1: a PA that is really remarkable. My daughter just graduated
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  Speaker 1: as a PA just about a month or so ago,
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  Speaker 1: one of my daughters, one of my five, and I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, she's keeping the Dad. Healthy. She's trying
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  Speaker 1: to do that, dad, How you doing? You're doing this?
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  Speaker 1: We got okay, I said, look, you know I can
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  Speaker 1: go to Aaron right next door. Okay, I'm nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 1: against exists, but you know she can see me. But
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  Speaker 1: you do a great job over there, and you do
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  Speaker 1: have quite a client tele Now. I do know that
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  Speaker 1: some folks will say, well, it looks like an interesting
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  Speaker 1: place to check out, but it's so new, it's so new. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know something, you've been here for several months. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that new new And six.
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  Speaker 2: Months now we've been open, I think, if my memory
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  Speaker 2: serves me correctly, Yes, it's been a scenario a little while, and.
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  Speaker 1: Folks are becoming much more familiar with the way things
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  Speaker 1: go and how it operates and everything. And like you say,
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  Speaker 1: I see it. Did he stream of folks coming into
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  Speaker 1: to get well and that's really a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we we have a lot of return visits, you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you know, being a new business, we track everything, right,
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  Speaker 2: we love data, and so we are definitely noticing we're
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  Speaker 2: having a lot of return patients. And so you know
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  Speaker 2: what that means is they were happy with their first
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  Speaker 2: visit to our clinic and they're coming back. We also
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  Speaker 2: ask every patient, how did you hear about us? And
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  Speaker 2: almost every patient you know, of course to get some
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  Speaker 2: people that say I got your mailer or I heard
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  Speaker 2: you on the radio, but you know, the majority is
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  Speaker 2: they heard about us from a friend. And so again,
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  Speaker 2: I think that just communicates that patients are so happy
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  Speaker 2: with the care that they're getting and so they're telling
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  Speaker 2: their friends and family about it.
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  Speaker 1: What is the importance of having a primary care doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some folks will say, well, I only get
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  Speaker 1: checked on once in a while, maybe every six or
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  Speaker 1: seven years if I'm feeling really bad, But as time
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  Speaker 1: goes on, you kind of need to make that on
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  Speaker 1: the regular. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you know that just really that's about preventative care.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's twenty twenty five. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people when they get into a new year, they start
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  Speaker 2: saying things like I'm going to pay attention to my
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  Speaker 2: health this year, or I'm going to have a goal
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  Speaker 2: to get more active, or I would like to lose
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  Speaker 2: some weight. There's a lot of different goals that people
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  Speaker 2: can really have, especially around their health and well being.
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  Speaker 2: Heading into a new year and starting with your primary
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  Speaker 2: care provider is the best place to really begin that journey.
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  Speaker 2: You know, having a primary care provider, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have the conversation about preventative health needs. So everything from
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  Speaker 2: the basics of let's make sure your blood pressure is controlled,
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  Speaker 2: Let's check some basic labs, and let's look at your
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  Speaker 2: thyroid levels, let's look at your cholesterol, let's look at
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  Speaker 2: your kidneys and liver and your blood counts, and just
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  Speaker 2: the basic functioning systems of the body. And of course
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about cancer screening prevention, everything from
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  Speaker 2: breast cancer to colon cancer to cervical cancer, just all
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  Speaker 2: those recommended preventative tests. And the goal is to go
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  Speaker 2: to a proactive not a reactive.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be proactive.
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  Speaker 1: About our health and get ahead of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're going to get ahead of it. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna if there's something wrong, we're going to catch it early.
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  Speaker 2: If we know that we have something going on that
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  Speaker 2: could lead to more problems down the road if it's
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  Speaker 2: not addressed, we want to catch it before it causes
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  Speaker 2: that problem. And so definitely having a primary care to
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  Speaker 2: get back to your question, is really a best the
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  Speaker 2: best place to start for making sure you're looking at
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  Speaker 2: that basic foundational things with your body that's really focusing
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  Speaker 2: them of presented of health. And it's also the best
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  Speaker 2: place to start if you're wanting to set a health
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  Speaker 2: goal in twenty twenty five, if you're wanting to get
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  Speaker 2: healthier in twenty twenty five, if you want to make
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  Speaker 2: any adjustments or make any lifestyle changes, the primary care
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  Speaker 2: office is the best place to start.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Aaron Ashley and she is with health
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  Speaker 1: and Wellness right here in Bartlotoville, right here at Kua
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  Speaker 1: Pott and Frank Phillips near the radio station. And you
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  Speaker 1: know some of us have well maybe bet the elbow
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  Speaker 1: a little too much, maybe didn't do table pushaways as
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  Speaker 1: often as we should have over the holidays, and we're
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  Speaker 1: finding ourselves now as it's halfway through January. This stuff
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  Speaker 1: is sticking around a little bit longer than it used to.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, your your your weight is all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden noticeable instead of a temporary thing, and that
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  Speaker 1: kind of becomes with agingior metabolism slows down. Might be
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  Speaker 1: a good idea to kind of get out ahead of
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  Speaker 1: that and just see what's going on and see what
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  Speaker 1: problems could could develop from that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, No, I just mentioned it's it's a new year,
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  Speaker 2: and this is this is a time where everybody's looking
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  Speaker 2: to make goals, they want to make changes. They you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have this like interesting new energy, right and in
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  Speaker 2: this new motivation that kind of sets in January one.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, if you're somebody that's looking to make
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  Speaker 2: a change to your health at all, I have a
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  Speaker 2: few tips that I like to really talk to my
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  Speaker 2: patients about, and really the biggest one is start small.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's very eas to get these big ambitions
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  Speaker 2: and you say I'm going to lose ten pounds or
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  Speaker 2: twenty pounds or fifty pounds, or I want to run
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  Speaker 2: a marathon in two weeks. You know, we get very ambitious.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is is that sometimes when we have
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  Speaker 2: in our mind that we're going to make these massive
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  Speaker 2: changes in a short period of time, we try and
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  Speaker 2: go crash diets, or we try to do things that
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  Speaker 2: are not sustainable or maybe even instances that aren't healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And so my biggest advice to patients when they're looking
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  Speaker 2: to make a change, a lifestyle change as we call it,
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  Speaker 2: it's just start small. So when you're starting small, you're
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  Speaker 2: just choosing one thing that you're going to tweak. I
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  Speaker 2: think about telling people you're going to just make a
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  Speaker 2: one degree change. If you think about a compass, if
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  Speaker 2: you just move the needle one degree in a direction,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to end up in a completely different place.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, you don't have to necessarily make that
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  Speaker 2: full ninety degree turn very quickly. You can just do
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  Speaker 2: one degree at a time. And data shows, very very strong,
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  Speaker 2: data shows consistently that big sweeping changes almost never last.
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  Speaker 2: It's those little changes, those those one degree shifts at
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  Speaker 2: a time is where patients find long standing, lasting change.
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  Speaker 2: And this can be in a dietary change. You know,
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  Speaker 2: this can be we're going to make some very small
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  Speaker 2: dietary changes. This could be in starting to become more active,
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  Speaker 2: you know, instead of being sitting or trying to you know,
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  Speaker 2: run a marathon. You know, some people it's like just
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  Speaker 2: start out walking. Just get out and walk, find a friends,
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  Speaker 2: get out and walk. So that's my biggest advice is
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  Speaker 2: start small. Look to making changes that are sustainable long term,
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  Speaker 2: not things that are really drastic.
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  Speaker 1: You know, So open folks to underline that and put
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  Speaker 1: that with the highlighter because I've seen the fellas over
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  Speaker 1: the years that President company included, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 1: some changes, and you go out and you start doing
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  Speaker 1: a workout routine like you're trying to make the Marines,
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  Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, you're injured and for
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  Speaker 1: like six weeks you're laid up and you put on
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  Speaker 1: more weight. Yeah, and you know that's that's not it's
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  Speaker 1: totally wrong. You got to do what she says, gradual, gradual, gradual.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get there. You'll get this.
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  Speaker 2: And I love lifestyle coaching. That's one thing that I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty passionate about. As in healthcare, a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: I do, unfortunately is trying to, you know, help fix
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  Speaker 2: the things that we find that are wrong with people, right,
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  Speaker 2: But I one of my true passions is really just
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle coaching, helping people with very tangible changes they can
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  Speaker 2: make to change their lifestyle. So if there's anybody that's
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  Speaker 2: interested in that, you can make an appointment for me
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  Speaker 2: and we can do a primary care visit that's all
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  Speaker 2: about lifestyle changes. We can get you connected with the
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  Speaker 2: nutritionist if you really need some very specific help around
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  Speaker 2: some dietary recommendation. So definitely, if anyone is saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, I want to make some changes. Give
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  Speaker 2: us a call because I'm definitely helping. I'm definitely happy
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  Speaker 2: to get get you started on that journey.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is great one, a wonderful way to start
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  Speaker 1: the new year and and help create a better version
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  Speaker 1: of an already pretty good self. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: got the starting you got the building blocks there, folks,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we can go and make those improvements.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is that in time, you'll start to
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  Speaker 1: notice them, maybe a little quicker than you think, even
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  Speaker 1: though you're doing gradually, you'll notice it before other people will.
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  Speaker 1: But it starts from the inside out, and it all
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  Speaker 1: starts with actually just feeling better. M hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love that you said that, that you're already
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  Speaker 2: you're already good self. Like, you know, even if we
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  Speaker 2: have some things we want to change, I think just
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  Speaker 2: remembering at the core that you're actually great how you
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  Speaker 2: are and wanting to make some changes is okay. But
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  Speaker 2: that that doesn't mean that you are a bad person
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  Speaker 2: or your body is bad, you know. I think we
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  Speaker 2: need to change kind of how we're talking about our bodies.
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  Speaker 2: And so I think that that is is just a
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  Speaker 2: good truth or belief.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad to of that, alrighty, And where can
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  Speaker 1: we get a hold of you?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? So, like you mentioned, we're right across the street
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  Speaker 2: from the radio station. We're a brick building with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of red accents which helping them all this right there,
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  Speaker 2: you can walk in. We, like I said, we're available.
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  Speaker 2: We're open seven days a week, Monday through Friday seven
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  Speaker 2: am to seven pm, and Saturday and Sunday nine to five.
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  Speaker 2: You can always call our clinic five three nine three
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  Speaker 2: three seven zero zero zero six for Selle and Katie.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be there to answer your questions to get you scheduled.
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  Speaker 2: We take most insurances, we take all medicares and medicaids,
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  Speaker 2: and then most commercial products. So yeah, we we're happy
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  Speaker 2: to serve anybody. And I know there's I know there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of local communities in bartles around Bartlesville, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Boring and Ramona and Dewey, and you know there's all
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  Speaker 2: these different smaller communities that don't have healthcare. And so
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  Speaker 2: we encourage those communities come see us. We're happy to
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  Speaker 2: take care of you and we're happy to be your
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  Speaker 2: provider even if you don't live in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is absolutely wonderful. I want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being with this today.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I've had the pleasure of speaking with
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  Speaker 2: you many times, and we really are thankful that you're
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  Speaker 2: you're willing to use some of your air time to
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  Speaker 2: talk about health and things like that.