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MEDCLUB BARTLESVILLE · One on One With a Professional

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