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Talk-Line: Dr. David Yeager · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Is Monday. It's August twenty five, the year is twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, and it's time for another informational edition of
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  Speaker 1: Talkline here at w i XN Radio. Good morning, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Steve Marco. It is an exciting time for us here
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  Speaker 1: at FM ninety five one and a fourteen sixty. We're
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  Speaker 1: starting a series of reports from Morrison Community Hospital. You'll,
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  Speaker 1: over the next few months be hearing from our good
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  Speaker 1: friends at Morrison Community Hospital and the work that they're
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  Speaker 1: doing at that location and all across northern Illinois. We
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  Speaker 1: have one of our favorite people from Morrison Community Hospital
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  Speaker 1: to join us in our Ignier report, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday, August the twenty fifth. He's a good
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  Speaker 1: friend of ours. He's been on the air with us
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  Speaker 1: before and we're happy to have him back. He is
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  Speaker 1: a pediatrist at Morrison Community Hospital, but has been across
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  Speaker 1: our entire Stock Valley area. His name is doctor David
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  Speaker 1: Yeager and he is lied with us by telephone this
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  Speaker 1: morning here at WYX and Doctor Yeager.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning seven, Good morning to all your listeners.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful time out there. It's the seasons are
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  Speaker 2: changing a little bit and it's beautiful out there's a
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  Speaker 2: great it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we just enjoyed some great weather this weekend. Looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the Labor Day weekend this weekend. But we're
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  Speaker 1: not here to talk about the holidays. We're here to
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  Speaker 1: talk about doctor Yeager and his efforts with Morrison Community Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: I know, doctor, you have been across our northern Illinois
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  Speaker 1: area serving as a pediatrist at Morrison Community Hospital for
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  Speaker 1: now how long? How long you been there, y head?
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  Speaker 2: You into my seventh year now, Steve Man, Yeah, time
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  Speaker 2: just like you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, yeh, But but you have been in the business
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  Speaker 1: for longer than that, haven't you, a doctor?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty three years? There you go, yeah, you bet.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you've you've been serving our area for you know,
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  Speaker 3: over two decades, but with Morrison Community Hospital, and you
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  Speaker 3: find it a nice fit, Doctor Yeger, I understand right, Morrison,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Steve, it's a phenomenal institution. I mean, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have the best staff that anybody could ask for. We've
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  Speaker 2: actually been able to and fortunate enough to surround ourselves
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  Speaker 2: with the best physicians and surgeons in the area. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, really I like to kind of make the
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  Speaker 2: phrase like you know, it's a kind of a big
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  Speaker 2: city care, you know, it's kind of a hometown player,
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  Speaker 2: and we really understand that patients now are way more educated.
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  Speaker 2: They actually will seek out care that they find that
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  Speaker 2: it's exceptional. And from the time that people walk in
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  Speaker 2: the door to the time that they leave, we just
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  Speaker 2: want them to have an excellent experience and really leave
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  Speaker 2: feeling much much better. So I'm proud to be here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud to work with the people that I work
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  Speaker 2: with each and every day. I think they're just phenomenal individuals,
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  Speaker 2: both here at work and outside of work. And so,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got a clinic expansion that's happening here
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  Speaker 2: in the hospital, and it's really exciting. You know, We've
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  Speaker 2: got two floors that are actually going on to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Just each floor is just shy of twelve thousand square
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  Speaker 2: v mugic and has twenty two exam room, new procedure room,
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  Speaker 2: primary care, and walking actually are going to move to
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  Speaker 2: the new space, and that existing state that we have
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  Speaker 2: here now that's just been beautifully renovated, will be allocated
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  Speaker 2: to our specialty services. So, you know, each and every
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  Speaker 2: day we're finding new and quite frankly Steve. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is is that we have a space problem. Right, we
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  Speaker 2: have all this expansion, We have all these great people
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  Speaker 2: coming in to seeking care and now we're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to allocate some space and then they can seek the
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  Speaker 2: best possibility of care they can have, absolutely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and we're excited. We're having new surgeons, the new staff
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  Speaker 2: all the time. You know, we just had a new
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  Speaker 2: neurose search of ductor for agalla that started. We also
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  Speaker 2: have a new primate care provider, doctor Trevor Trutman. He
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  Speaker 2: starts on September second, so he's ready to hit the
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  Speaker 2: ground running. And we're just really excited for everything that's happening.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, kind of the reason why see we're
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  Speaker 2: doing this is, you know, our clinic volumes have doubled
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  Speaker 2: since we opened the last suspension. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember that in twenty twenty one. Since that time,
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  Speaker 2: our surgery volumes have tripled, and so we realized that
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  Speaker 2: we really need to accommodate the space and really be
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  Speaker 2: able to serve our greater Northern Illinois area that we get.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we have surgeons that have patients that come
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  Speaker 2: all the way from middle of Iowa to all the
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  Speaker 2: way downtown Chicago, and so we're just really proud of
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  Speaker 2: the service that we provide for each and every person
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  Speaker 2: that comes into our.
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  Speaker 1: Facility absolutely seeking out and this is this is the
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  Speaker 1: great news that doctor Jeger shares not only in his area,
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  Speaker 1: but in the many areas of Morrison Community Hospital. People
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  Speaker 1: actually seeking out the experts at Morrison Community Hospital to
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  Speaker 1: handle their needs. And there's your explanation why that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing new facilities and new construction going on at
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  Speaker 1: Morrison Community Hospital. It's in the heart of Morrison, but
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  Speaker 1: of course expands out into serving all of northern Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: right doctor, I mean, yeah, your headquarters are in Morrison,
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  Speaker 1: but as you just mentioned, you're you're even getting out
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  Speaker 1: of state clients.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and that's that's so unique, and we have
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  Speaker 2: the ability and the teamwork here that actually it's the
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  Speaker 2: one stop shop for these patients that are coming out
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  Speaker 2: of town. Uh. And in fact, we really like to
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  Speaker 2: capture and provide the services in one day that that
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  Speaker 2: most other services and other service lines in the area
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  Speaker 2: can And so you know, we as you mentioned, we
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  Speaker 2: branched out to different clinic spaces and you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: got my clinic in Tuesday mornings in Dixon. We're also
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  Speaker 2: going to offer obgyn services there as well, in the
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  Speaker 2: same facility. We also have one in e and Erie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're just branching out to identify the areas
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  Speaker 2: that are our need of good quality care.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and we'll be mentioning the locations that you can
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  Speaker 1: see doctor Yeger as close as Dixon. As doctor Yeger mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: he is in our area for a certain period of
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  Speaker 1: time and at a certain location. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that with his expert area, and that is po
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  Speaker 1: dietary Doctor Jeger. I mean, does something that obviously too
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  Speaker 1: many of us take for granted a lot that should
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  Speaker 1: probably be taken more care of. You know, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to your area, Let's face it. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to foot and ankle, you know we are
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  Speaker 1: you know, not, you know, concentrated in that until a
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  Speaker 1: time of need comes about where we need assistance, right.
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  Speaker 2: Seven. You know, I look at the foot and the
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  Speaker 2: ankle is kind of the base of the body, right
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  Speaker 2: so if your feet and ankles are bad, everything going
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  Speaker 2: upward is going to be effected, whether it's your knees,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's your back, whether it's your hips. And so
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  Speaker 2: really we get the alignment in the foot and ankle
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  Speaker 2: in more of a you know, anatomical position than everything
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  Speaker 2: else should align pretty well. So uh yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: that that's you hit it right on the head in
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  Speaker 2: terms of papers. Really don't realize how am I gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I might need to seek some help until it's too late.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why we offer so many offers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I do walk in patients have my cell phone. If
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  Speaker 2: there's any questions, they can always reach out to me
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  Speaker 2: because really, by the time that they seek help, it
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  Speaker 2: might be too late. So I want to get them
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  Speaker 2: in as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you mentioned a couple of connotations that you
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  Speaker 3: know kind of you know, spark your area, you walk in,
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  Speaker 3: get the you know, hit the ground running. This is
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  Speaker 3: all connected, you know, to that that you catch a
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  Speaker 3: trade on, and that's foot and ankle care, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: But now should we should we be caring for you know,
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  Speaker 1: those areas you know, as as much as we do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, taking regular checkups things like that. Should we
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  Speaker 1: be doing that you know?
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  Speaker 2: With yeah, you know, in fact, Steve, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: uh diabetics could just visit at Actress even once or
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  Speaker 2: twice a year. Studies have shown that the level of amputation,
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  Speaker 2: or the percentage amputation that's gonna ocurge less than fifty percent.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it seems like such a nominal thing,
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  Speaker 2: but really if you visit, the chance of you know,
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  Speaker 2: amputation is greatly diminished in such in our diabetic population,
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  Speaker 2: which as you know, there's millions of people out there
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  Speaker 2: that are undiagnosed diabetics, right, and millions of those diabetics
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  Speaker 2: that are uncontrolled. And so I don't like to amputate.
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  Speaker 2: I tell Page that this is the last and that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have to do the surgery right because
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  Speaker 2: I like to save limbs. I don't like to cut them,
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  Speaker 2: and so inevitably it takes a long time for patients understand, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to take care of this, because if I
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  Speaker 2: get an infection, diabetic for more prompt prone to infection,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, are more prone than not heal as well.
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  Speaker 2: And so at my job basically to try to save limbs,
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  Speaker 2: because number one, a limb that amputated, the amount of
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  Speaker 2: cardiac stress on patients is incredible, and so we want
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  Speaker 2: to prevent that from the current and we want people
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  Speaker 2: to get back to work, back to activities, get back
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  Speaker 2: to their families as quick as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd never like to hear of that situation. But again,
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  Speaker 1: and this is again why we're stressing the importance of
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  Speaker 1: making a regular call to Dr Yeager and his office
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  Speaker 1: on perhaps a by yearly or even once a year
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  Speaker 1: visit would not hurt at all to check up on
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  Speaker 1: those again foot and ankled areas in the pedicetary area
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  Speaker 1: of Morrison Community Hospital. Doctor Jieger, I wanted to in
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  Speaker 1: our latter portion of the talk line talk about something
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  Speaker 1: that you're gearing up for. And this is called a
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  Speaker 1: complications course and you put this together through Morrison Community Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: You've been doing this for the past decade. Now this
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  Speaker 1: will be your eleventh year. Talk about this a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Steep. You know, it's our eleven fear, like
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  Speaker 2: you alluded to in the hospital and our foundation, which
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm very proud that they are so willing
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  Speaker 2: to give back to our communities. And one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of the proceeds that go from the complications course go
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  Speaker 2: directly to the foundation here at our hospital, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a course that we started eleven years
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  Speaker 2: ago that primarily is focused on complications and how to
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  Speaker 2: work through them. And it's an open air concept in
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  Speaker 2: terms of we have about one hundred docs that get together,
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  Speaker 2: we do a lecture in the morning, we break for lunch,
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  Speaker 2: and then they actually have hands on categoric options in
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon to work on some of the complications that
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  Speaker 2: we might have addressed in the beginning. And so it's
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  Speaker 2: a win for the companies that help us and support it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a win for about one hundred hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 2: docks here in Illinois and Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: and really, quite frankly, it's a win for everyone in
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  Speaker 2: terms of they have the exposure to be able to
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  Speaker 2: do these on hands on category speciments, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: for ninety nine dollars, you can't beat that. To receive
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  Speaker 2: sixteen cmees or dots. It's I don't mean it's not
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  Speaker 2: like a commercial, but it's just it's really, really, really
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  Speaker 2: cool that they have this ability to have that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now, when does this particular event take place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be September twenty seven, twenty to
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. Twenty seven in Lyle, Illinois. We identified that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of docs didn't want to travel out to
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  Speaker 2: our area, so we decided to pull put it more
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  Speaker 2: centralized and what better in Lyle in Naplevil And that's
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  Speaker 2: actually at the Northern Illinois University kind of conference center
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  Speaker 2: there in Lyle, and it's a phenomenal opportunity. It's a
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  Speaker 2: great setup, it's a great, great facility, and really a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that participate look forward each year and.
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  Speaker 1: That will be coming up next month and we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure we've again got word on that as
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  Speaker 1: we move forward into the fall of twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and doctor Yeager's area with Pedetary at Morrison Community Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Under all of this construction, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeager, I know that there's been a few setbacks as
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  Speaker 3: far as contacting you and your office, right correct, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit here, going.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what whatever recommendations to do is either call the
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  Speaker 2: main line which is eight one five seven seven two
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  Speaker 2: four thousand and three, and then they can transfer them
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  Speaker 2: down to our office or even directly at eight one
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  Speaker 2: five seven seven two five five three eight, and then
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be able to talk to Kelsey are
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  Speaker 2: exceptional receptionist and she'll be able to guide you through
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  Speaker 2: the process. So, you know, I'm blessed to be a pietist.
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  Speaker 2: I'm blessed to work for Morris Commute Hospital, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: blessed to treat the paper people in northern Illinois. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think the people in this area are phenomenal in
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  Speaker 2: terms of their hearts and they're giving, and I just
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  Speaker 2: am proud to be in this area.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you're in our area as well, doctor Jaeger.
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  Speaker 1: You know, say for your main facility at Morrison Community Hospital,
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  Speaker 1: you're over here in Dixon. A few times during your
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  Speaker 1: time tell us tell us about that and how we
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  Speaker 1: can contact you there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, basically it's the same process, you can call it.
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  Speaker 2: We actually have the phones forwarded on Tuesday mornings over
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  Speaker 2: to there and it's right behind it's the old now
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  Speaker 2: Care building so on Galena Avenue, right across from Angelos
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  Speaker 2: and we're there from about eight to twelve in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I realized that there was a definite need for patients
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  Speaker 2: that were traveling from Dixon to Morrison. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's easy. I still live in Dixon. I still have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of friends and a lot of loved ones
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  Speaker 2: and Dixon as well, So it just is a win
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  Speaker 2: for everyone so that we can bring the services to them.
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  Speaker 2: And like I alluded to before, we're actually adding ob
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  Speaker 2: as well there, so we're pretty excited about offering that too.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's all going into that facility again on North
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  Speaker 1: Galina Avenue and that's where doctor Yeager's Dixon location is located.
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  Speaker 1: But you still get a hold of those numbers that
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  Speaker 1: doctor Yeager shared with us in order to make an
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  Speaker 1: appointment through Morrison Community Hospital. I wish we had more
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  Speaker 1: time to chat because I know that there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of areas we could cover, but hopefully we've gotten the
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  Speaker 1: word out doctor Yeager. Anything else that you'd like to
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  Speaker 1: add before we let you go now, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, Steve just I hope everyone has a great day,
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  Speaker 2: and remember there's no business like Tilvin's, so all right,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to thank you for taking time out.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank everyone for listening and please contact
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  Speaker 2: us if you have any questions or concerns, and look
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  Speaker 2: forward to doing this and making this a kind of
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  Speaker 2: a monthly thing for us and other practitioners here at
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  Speaker 2: more from hospital.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a lot of fun. It'll be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of interesting areas that we contact with Morrison Community Hospital
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  Speaker 1: and doctor Yeger. What a great way to kick things
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  Speaker 1: off right here on wycent. Hey, thanks doctor Yeger. We
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  Speaker 1: appreciate your visit today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks you so much, and thank you so much. Have
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  Speaker 2: a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor David Yeger, prodiatrist with Morrison Community Hospital, our guest
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  Speaker 1: on the Monday morning talk line here at wycent. Time
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  Speaker 1: to go to press Next with Tim Leet