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MEDCLUB BARTLESVILLE · One on One With a Professional

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