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