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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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  And the doctor is Carrie Williams with med Club bartles Direct primary Care.
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  Some folks have heard it, but they don't know exactly what it means,
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  but it pretty much means what it says. It does. It means that
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  that patient contracts directly with that position for primary care. And you do that
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  at med Club Bartlesville, right here in Bartlesville, across from Jimmy's Egg on
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  seventy five. Yes, and we've been doing it in Bartlesville since twenty seventeen.
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  Now. This is kind of a cool model. It's something that got
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  started really up in Kansas, didn't it. It did, Yeah, and
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  it started kind of when Obamacare was coming about and people were looking for different
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  ways to you know, affordable see a doctor and make it work not only
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  for the patient but for the doctor and for the health of a community.
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  As a matter of fact, Yes, and doctors are a lot happier because
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  they're not dealing with a lot of insurance companies and administration. No. In
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  fact, you have one monthly fee and that takes care of a lot of
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  things. It doesn't take care of everything, but by value takes care of
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  a pretty good swap of it. It does, and you know what to
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  expect. There's transparency, Oh yeah, very much. So it's all right
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  there in black and white. Plus you'll tell them too, yes, And
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  also at mccleb we offer discounted labs and prescriptions and you know how much it's
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  going to cost before you leave. My goodness, sakes, so all of
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  the mystery is taken out and you can get down to medicine. Yes,
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  Oh, how rare is that? That is very rare in our medical climents
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  today? Oh my goodness. You know, I was taking a look at
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  some of these facts and figures here. Whenever I need a medical constitution or
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  looked at it for anything I call, I'm either there that afternoon or the
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  next day. We try very hard, ninety nine times out of a one
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  hundred, but going the traditional route, we got some late times that are
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  kind of I wasn't aware, and I'm glad that I didn't go that route.
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  Well, intraditional practices, Yeah, there's nearly a thirty day wait to
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  get an appointment, and as a new patient it will be even longer.
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  And if you go to a specialty clinic, it will be over thirty days,
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  more like thirty five or forty days to get an appointment because there's not
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  enough doctors in the United States. Well, you know, I just took
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  a look at a chart there, and you're absolutely correct. When we talk
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  about primary care workforce projections, we start out with what looks like a lot
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  of doctors, but in comparison to how many people there are, the ratio
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  pardon my grammar, ain't that great, No, sir, it's not.
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  In primary care physicians they're basically what populates rule Oklahoma, rural America, and
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  there's not enough of them. And because our population as a nation is growing,
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  so you ratio it and doctors can lose see so many patients today and
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  that limits how many patients they have. Indeed, and when we talk about
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  the demand for doctors, it's it's almost off the scale and it all comes
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  down in numbers. But it's nice to know that you're here and you're abailable.
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  Yes, And you know, because of a decrease ratio of physician to
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  patients in the United States, because of the increase in our populations, are
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  filling in with other medical providers like nurse practitioners and physicians assistants. Now I
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  look at family positions. Yeah, maybe you get six percent a year coming
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  into the field, but the increase is thirteen percent. Thirty. Wow,
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  kind of losing ground there. We are losing ground goodness ages a general,
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  internal physicians it's almost double that's a that's crazy. And the ratios that go
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  on here, nurse practitioners in primary care there seems to be a bunch of
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  those. But the increase in demand is only sixteen percent. So we've got
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  like a little crossing there of the on the diagram as far as supply and
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  demand. But it all depends on what you're looking for it does, and
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  what that patient's goals are. And one of the questions I asked my patients
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  with age, do you think you're going to get healthier? And Andrews absolutely
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  not no, And you think your medical conditions are going to get less complicated
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  with age with age? And so you need someone with experience that has spent
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  a lot of time with patients, and it's seen a lot of patients.
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  By the time we complete residency, which in family medicine is three years,
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  we've seen a lot of patients. We've worked a lot of hospitals, We've
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  worked a lot of clinics, and I did a fellowship in emergency medicine and
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  also can do that and am boards ordified in hospice and pality medicine. It's
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  so seeing that many patients, having much experience, you can kind of weed
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  through the complications a lot more quickly. You can now death rates. I'm
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  just taking a look at that because you know, I'm sixty four and I
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  didn't quite really care about this until you turned like sixty two. I don't
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  know why. I all aden sixty two was like, hey, I better
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  check up on this. But it's amazing here in the United States. You
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  think you're going to live forever, well, none of us get out of
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  here alive. But there are hard facts and hard numbers and real reasons why
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  you should really be in good hands of a physician knows what's going on.
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  Well, you know, with age, you know, ourselves get damaged just
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  by injury and stress and DNA mutations, and our body has a lessoned ability
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  to correct those problems, so the disease processes will creep up on you.
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  And you know, the deterioration of the organs in the United States, cardiovascular
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  disease is the number one cause of death. Cancer is right behind it.
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  So those two together of all the death in the United States, contribute to
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  over forty percent. And a lot of times we can kind of control the
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  encroachment of that. We can we can start doing prementitive messages. And a
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  lot of people will not address their health concerns until they have a catastrophic event,
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  they have their heart attack, their stroke, their cancer. They won't
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  keep up with their maintenance. They will spend more time on their car,
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  changing the oil, doing the maintenance on their car than they will themselves.
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  And then when the catastrophic event happens, then it's expensive. Wow. Wait,
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  that is that? That is something else? You know, when we
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  think that our body is what we have that's going to take us to where
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  we need to go, that folks wally to think about their conveyances more than
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  you know, what's keeping them alive, what's keeping you you? And we've
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  got to change the mind shift here on this. It's hard, yeah,
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  because you have to come to groups with your own mortality, and most people
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  don't like doing it. No one likes doing it. Let's do it that
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  way. But it's an inevitable event and a lot to die. So let's
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  see if we can keep the misery out of it, if we can anticipate
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  it, if we can ward off, we can catch things early and take
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  care of them. Now, the model you have is ideal for what catching
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  things early and to get ahead of things because with the way you're set up
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  one feed monthly fee, you can get checked in just about any old time
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  we want making the appointment. You're usually there in the day or half a
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  day, and you give your patients anywhere from a half hour to an hour
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  of your time each time they're there in order to get things explained, examined
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  properly and help them help themselves in getting ahead of the curve of what's coming
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  ahead. Any education of it is a lot and the understanding that the patient
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  has of the medical system, the system, the system, and people go,
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  well, that's not right, they shouldn't do it that way. I'm
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  sorry they do do it that way, and we have to learn to live
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  with it. But we have to also learn how to manage it. Wow
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  and what I also have a degree in a master's in healthcare administration to try
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  to understand this and to understand the system and break it down and put it
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  into fanal English for us common folk to how this all operates and how it's
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  going to affect you. Absolutely, and for a doctor to speak English,
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  let alone Oki English, it's difficult. We've spent a lot of years learning
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  to speak that high pollutant vocabulary. But the thing is is that when people
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  are looking for answers, they're looking for direct response, in the very direct
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  communication. And with med Club Bartlefield, everything is based on communication and very
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  direct communicating. Yes, and we have several means of communication, not only
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  a face to face appointment time, but we text and email. I do
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  telephone appointments. There are time times I'm going to really almost manage to come
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  in because I need to see something, examine something. But a lot of
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  the questions, a lot of the labyordies and things are done via the telephone
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  or face to face something like that. Also, some of medicine isn't what
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  it appears. Do tell things like metabolic problems, they don't show up until
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  there's a problem. We can kind of anticipate them. Also, as a
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  primary care position, I'm a gatekeeper. Most the information comes through me or
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  to me, and so getting different specialists very information and getting hospital information plus
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  my information and being able to put a canelative together and see trends, see
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  reasons, see timings of problems is really important. It is, it truly
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  is. Now how can folks get started with becoming a member of med Club,
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  Artilesfel. We'll go to our website at www dot medclub dot clinting.
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  That website will answer almost every question you may have about direct primary care and
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  med Club. Also, there's a page on there to sign up as a
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  patient, and my electronic medical record will let me know that someone new has
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  signed up and we will get back with you. Good. And you offer
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  an opportunity for folks to come in once they've gone through that portion, come
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  in and just ask questions and that's great. A free there is an appointment
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  available that we don't provide medical advice, but we answer the questions about direct
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  primary care in mid club. Sure, so you know everything what to expect
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  and why see the best of our ability, just the best of our ability
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  now with this one month fee, that is all kinds of checkups, and
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  that's visits, that's consultations and everything else. However, you do provide some
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  other service at reduced costs. Like labs them right there. Yes, in
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  our office we have lab pick up every day, blood work every day we're
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  open and we do blood work you'reine, and some other things like pap smears
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  and the contract with the lab. We also have discounted and that is greatly
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  discounted. And we also have discounted prescriptions. As a direct primary care doctor,
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  we're going to buy a group with other direct primary care practices and can
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  buy purchase prescription medications that are very discounted rate and we don't have the markup
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  of the retail pharmacies. Another bonus for the patient. Yes, and for
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  I have some patients who are are snowbirds who go to different states. We
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  mail them prescriptions that are a small fee. So it's the one stop shop
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  works on so many different levels for so many different people. It does,
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  And the main thing is accessibility and time. Time is everything. It's fun.
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  It's something that if you're a patient, you want someone who's able to
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  take the time to explain exactly what's going on with you in a way that
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  you'll understand it, and you can't do that in five minutes. I've been
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  on the receiving end of that work well and being able to explain it having
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  resources there. Some people are very visual. They need to see pictures and
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  understand it. They need to know where certain organs are located on their body
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  and to understand what certain things mean. If I poke you here and it
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  shows up over here, it means so and so. Yeah. So it's
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  great that we have that time to get that. That will explain And I'm
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  going to tell you folks full transparency. I'm a patient of doctor Williams.
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  She'lldn't even haul out the grave anatomy and and they'll show you exactly what's going
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  on, and she'll tell you where to find other information so you can do
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  some homework on your own and really absorb it in your own way and in
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  your own time as well. On top of the long but that's the key
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  to medicine is understanding and it has been an enigma to so many people,
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  and they use great big words and getting past that. I send almost every
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  new patient, I will send some type of link to a website of some
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  kind for them to start their learning. Because a lot of medicine has turned
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  into online college classes where you have to do a lot of it yourself to
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  get caught up. And stay caught up. Any things is if medical advance
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  has changed that is pertinent to that patient. Sometimes out of the blue,
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  you'll get something from me that is relevant to you, and that's because the
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  doctor really takes the time to get to know each and every individual patient.
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  You don't have thousands of patients like other clinics do that Club Barbelsfield. You
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  have a set number and that's by design. Yes, we limit our number
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  of patients at seven hundred and we're still accepting new patients. And in my
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  old practice and a traditional method, I had over three thousand. How'd you
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  keep tracked? You don't. You have a staff and my staff is limited
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  where I'm at and a lot of the time I'm the one doing things because
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  and more than anything that trust for the time and the communications is built both
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  ways. And our phone number is nine one eight two one four eight two
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  zero zero. Very good. And of course the website, the all important
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  website to get the ball rolling. Yes, it's www dot medclub dot clinic