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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. Kelly Peakley right.
Our family has been with doc Healthcare since its inception
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in twenty seventeen here in College Station. It was started
and run by doctor Joel Richards, former er doc here
in town. It's the best healthcare decision we ever made.
He has expanded in a big way, now offering services
outside of Brian College Station. His people include pediatricians, functional medicine,
IV fluids labs and a lot more. They offer affordable
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plans or pay as needed for appointments. We haven't stepped
foot in a doctor's office since twenty seventeen. We only
have visits in the comfort of our own home. CJ.
Landry writes, I love the conzier's doctor we had years ago,
but make sure you ask about critical care support. How
does the concierge doc handle a heartache from their patients.
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Many small business owners can't afford Obamacare or don't want
to pay for this terrible coverage, so they opt for
concierge Care. However, this doesn't cover major medical issues. What
do they suggest for a solution? And finally, John Green writes,
I've been a patient in a concier's practice now for
two and a half years. One of the greatest things
I've ever done, and it changed my life. I'll keep
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it short. He didn't. In twenty twenty one, I was
hospitalized with severe COVID for a week and almost died.
I was overweight and needed my health assessed Tatata. In
late twenty twenty one, I emailed you for a recommendation,
and you put me in touch with doctor Mary Tally Boden.
She recommended I find a concierge practice, but said she
didn't know anyone in my area, which is Richmond, to recommend.
A short while later, I was at a dentist appointment
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that I asked ad this. He recommended doctor Frank Matza
in Richmond. I went talked to him one day, fell
in love. He takes the time to talk to me.
His staff's available by cell phone twenty four hours a day.
He's put me on the road to better health. Michael,
my weight is down, MI cholesterol's low, my AC is low.
AC A one C is low. Most importantly, my wife
is happy that I'm taking care of my health. Yes,
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it is more expensive, but I think Concierg's medicine is
one hundred percent worth every penny. Happy to share my story,
but please refer to me only as Johnny. Oh well,
you should have put that in the first line, since
I read it as it came off hot off the
press printer. All right, doctor will Davis, and then we're
going to go to doctor I think it's Steelman is
the other Will Davis? When patients transfer over to you.
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I'm guessing a lot of your how many, however many patients?
You have hundreds of patients. A lot of them were
already with you and then just moved over to the
concierge practice when you changed over to that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Ah, yes, sir, so a lot of them are originally
patient for a long time. And then most of my
growth over the last six seven years has been through
word of mouth from either family members, spouses, friends, and
that's how it's grown. And you know it was one thing, Michael,
I meant to say earlier, as you know you mentioned before,
is that for me? I think it's I had two
older doctors who are my mentors who are now passed,
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but it's we're basically as concierge doctors, old school doctors.
It's back to the old style that you have that
relationship you had your grandparents had with their doctors.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think that's important. You know, when the NBAS took
over the practices and started trying to wring money out
of them, which is what you do. It's it's it's business.
But but people people had. This wasn't business. This wasn't
trying to make a few more pennies off a Coca
cola or a ticket to a concert with more fees.
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This was this is intimate, man, especially when you have concerns.
You know, you got a lump, you know what? What
what should I do? You you've got something wrong? You
know what? What is the point from which I can't
pass my bowels for twenty four hours becomes forty eight?
What's the point where there's a danger zone? You know,
there's there's there's shame, there's it's raw and and these
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are the kind of things that you want to trust
the person you're talking to. And I think that more
than anything else, more even than the dollars and cents,
I think that matters to people.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I agree. I mean, I think, you know, to a
lot of degree, I'm as much of a therapist at
times to my patients as I am their doctor because
they can come to me for anything, and I really
tell them, you know, some of them hesitate to actually
contact me because they don't want to take up my time.
And I'm like, look, if you have a problem, you
need to let me know because I can't help you
if I if I don't know, and I mean, it's
it's you know, it's again one of the things I
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like to say, it's you know, a lot of doctors
think that it's a privilege for a patient to see them.
For me, I like to always say that it's a
privilege for me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
To be able to take care of them.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, you are in a situation. A lot of doctors
are not. Your bedside manner is fantastic because you are.
You are very social, very easy to communicate. You like people,
You're interested in people. I think a lot of doctors,
traditionally before this was such an important thing. We're all
about the science and the healing. And I find when
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people say so and so is a great doctor, they
don't know how well he cuts when they're under anesthesia.
They don't know how well he recognizes, you know, this
lump or that they know that he's likable, and likability
is key in your politician and your doctor in all
of it. How do folks reach you, Will Davis?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So they most of the time they will text me.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And it is the general public. If you're still if
you're taking new patients, reach you.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So they could call my office number which is seven
one three seven eight three nine two eight seven, or
they can look me up on mdvip dot com under
Will Davis.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Now it says Memorial Hermon Health System. Are you a
so city with them in some way?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So I am affiliated with them through a program called
MHMD which they go ahead and help us manage certain
contracts and a certain other Yeah, it's not it's not
a full affiliation.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That they need more docs so that they can get
the group buying discount. You need their back office. It
makes sense. And you are at guest and.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What West Timer.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Guestner in West Timmer All right, doctor Will Davis, Thank you, buddy, Yes, sir,
thank you, sir, Doctor Steelman. Hello, welcome to the program, sir,
thank you. So tell me about your practice and how
when you got into this concierge model and.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Why sure, so we are a Concier Direct Primary Care
office in Shenandoah, Texas, just outside the entrance to Woodlands,
and we started about a year year and a half ago.
The the why was was pretty easy. Just all of
my patients in the hospital kept asking me to open
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an office, and there weren't a whole lot of primary
care docs around.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's hard to get an appointment. So what does that
look like? What does a patient pay to get started?
And then do they file their insurance with How does
that work?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So our version and a lot of these are very
similar but also a little bit different. So you know
you'll find variation between all different kinds of Concier practice.
But our model, the direct primary care model, is based
on a low cost monthly membership and in exchange for that,
you get no copaid, You get all the services done
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in the office health called texting twenty four to seven,
access anytime you want at no costs. There's no charge
for office visits or anything like that. So we try
to lower the costs for accessibility. It comes right now.
We're at one twenty five a month with no enrollment fee,
no no required membership. We will on everybody to be
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really happy with the service.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Hold with me for just a moment seven one three
nine nine one thousand and seven one three nine nine
one thousand. We will talk further about there have to
be better solutions to healthcare and we can't wait around
for the government to solve that. There are things out
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there that you should at least be looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And this is my damn country. I thought for this country.
This is mine talk.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't say this to frag I say this to
encourage you to look around spending time on your healthcare
before you need it. It's very strategic. You can't wake
up at sixty and go I need to retire. I
need to plan for my retirement because I'm going to
retire in a few years. It's too late. Your first job.
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You should be putting away money into your investments, not
just for your retirement, but so that you're not limited
to what you make being the wealth you create. Other
people are making money by loaning you money. You should
make money off investments from day one, but it's something
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you have to think about ahead of time. Nobody comes
to your desk and signs you up and says, all right,
here are some good investments. Here's how to diversify your portfolio.
Here has historically been the return on this type of investment,
and this is what you'll want to do in you
to figure it out. You got to figure it all out,
but you got to know that this is going to
be more important than a lot of other things that
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people spend a lot of time doing. I know people
who don't have a penny invested, don't have a single
relationship with a doctor, but they can tell you every
detail so soon as are my friends, they can tell
you every detail of the woman Bill Belichick is with
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and they're scandalized, and they've watched every podcast with every
opinion and oh my god, and she said to shut
the interview down and she wasn't going to answer how
they met, and can you believe this? But I know
they met at that Okay, if that's how you want
to spend your time, that's fine. But I can live
life without worrying about Bill Belichick who he's having sex with,
which is really weird while you're that obsessed with it.
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But what I try to take care of is things
that I know are coming, and that is financial needs
and health care. And you're only going to put that
off for so long, there will come a time you
need it. So why not start doing the research now?
Why not start having conversations? I think it's very important,
doctor Steelman. Hell, all right, So what do you find
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most your patients find most rewarding about being in this
concierge practice?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So the I mean, it's it's really individual what they're
looking for. We see a lot of different paces of
different uh, you know, needs, But the biggest thing is
just having access to a doctor is not rushed and
mostly that we're very independent and not influenced by insurance
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or by government you know, requirements and things like that.
So we we operate outside of any of that insurance influence.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And how does that matter practically speaking?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I mean, it's it's actually really really easy to see
and we're very very transparent. That's the first thing is
that in healthcare, one one of the bigger problems that
we have is that nobody knows how much anything costs.
So with our practice, we make a big emphasis on
being very transparent. You see the actual prices with us,
and everything that you get through us after your you know,
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paying the membership fee is wholesale. It is exactly the
price that the market pays, so we pay cash for things,
and we can generally get labs, imaging, medication supplements, things
like that. About a tense the price.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right because we're cutting out the silly, silly, silly insurance scam.
And that's the one. So what's interesting about that is
people say they want truth, but for most politicians other
than Trump, they don't want the truth. They want the
political talk. They want everybody wants to believe that. You know,
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what I want to be the case is what he
wants to be the case. And he wouldn't tell me otherwise. Well,
it's funny. People don't't talk about money. But if you
put a sign up front and it says this is
what it's going to cost, I think that's jarring for people.
And I think that's partly become because they've grown accustomed
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to pretending that that's not going to happen, that there's
not going to be a charge. If we don't think
about it, we put it off. If I don't think
about the exam on Thursday, I don't have to study
for it today and it won't bother me. It won't
cause me any any concern. But it's the only industry
I know of where you go, you go in the
services rendered, and later you find out how much it costs.
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Imagine going to lone Star Chevy, you go see Mike
bachiss a GM, you decide which one you want without
any regard to what anything costs. I really like that
when you drive off and three weeks letter you get
a letter that you owe x amount of money and
you had no idea what. You hope it won't be bad,
but you have no It's just insanity, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Agree, so our you know one example we had just
I mean this is every single week for us, but
we had one patient come in for sick labs. They
had been thrown up and real thick for about a
week or so, and we send them off.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
For a lab.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
We have a national GPO contract to get our labs
a full comprehensive panel to get them straight. Was twenty
one dollars with up and cash price with insurance with
three hundred and eighty three bucks. I mean, that's there's
there's no question where the value is.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, what people people may not know is when you
go to your doctor, there are very likely as many people,
if not more, in a back office who are handling paperwork,
fighting with insurance companies all day long and trying to
get what service they delivered to you which you needed.
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Then you were sick, then forget how important that was.
You get healthy and you go, I know you needed
it then, And that's not the delivery of medicine. That
is simp that is stupid paperwork. You know. We went
to San Antoni this weekend, brought my brother in law
and sister in law, my wife's sister and her husband,
and they live in a and we were planning the
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next day what time we needed to leave, because where
we needed to be, because we had reservations, and they said,
and I said, we'll leave thirty minutes before we're to
be at LaFond of the restaurant because it's fifteen minutes away.
And they said, oh, so we need to be down
at eight thirty instead of nine thirty. And I said,
why would you need to do that and they said, well,
we need to check out probably it's busy. So I'm
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figuring what what should it take forty five minutes to
check out? I said, no, you don't check out, you
just walk out? We do you mean you can't? And
because in India and they learned this from the British.
Everything you stand in line to get a document to
get into the next line, and somebody signs it and
they don't review. It's just all of this rigmarole for
no good reason. It doesn't help heal people. And to
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be able to cut through that, I can't imagine how
much that helps your bottom line because now you don't
have to have all this staff to deal with the
insurance company and all the things that go with that.
That's got to be so much more rewarding for you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, when we started putting the business together, the billing
companies take five or ten percent off the top from
from any money you're making the business, So that's automatically
a much better business relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So well, good for you, doctor Steelman. Thanks for being
our guest seven one three one thousand. I would like
to hear from someone who has switched over to Concierge's
Care and what they thought of it. We didn't get
nothing the hard time to Michael Show, it's a damn shame.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's a damn shame.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. All Right,
we've got folks on the line who have concierge care
response and when we get to those in just a moment.
I did want to make sure we got in today
because Fox has gone wall to wall. I don't know
what the others are doing, but everyone is excited over
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the papal conclave of the big vote today from your
Catholic do y all gather around the TV like it's
an NFL draft because they're showing each of the candidates,
and they show he's like a baseball card. They show
his photo in the country he's from, and who appointed him.
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I'm going to get so many emails from people who
are upset. And you know what I find funny about this,
I mean just hilarious in the most biting way. Michael,
I can't believe you were being disrespectful to Catholics. You
view my reaction to what I'm watching as disrespectful to you.
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I didn't realize you were involved in that. I'm a Catholic. Oh,
you play for that team, So since you play for
that team, I'm supposed to pretend I think this whole
thing is normal. I'm watching grown men parade around and
elect the next most powerful person, one of the most
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powerful people in the world. Who's going to offer opinions
on America's immigration policies. It's completely alien to me. I
know nothing about it. That's not true. But well, how
about this. If I were to show you a Muslim event,
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do you think it would be fair for your boss, employee,
or neighbor to be upset at you because you think
that having a prayer on a busy street in New
York early in the morning before people are up, and
you think that's ridiculous and absurd. Does that mean that
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every Muslim should be mad at you, even though they
live in La they're Shia and that Sunni. Stop this nonsense.
You don't have anything to do with that. And by
the way, it's kind of funny. If you're not part
of it, it's kind of funny. And if it can't
be funny without you gett your feelings hurt, go join
Antifa because it's the same mindset comedian Chris Sanders and
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his friends. Imagine what it would be like if people
did gather around the TV like the NFL Draft. Are
you watching the NFL Draft?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Watching the Pope Draft.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So many good prospects in the College of Cardinals. Yeah,
like Peter and Luis Antonio tag Sanders, I got my
money on there.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why Cardinal a bar.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
I couldn't bless a blind feet if you suck inside
of an orphanage.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Shoug got my rookie year of Pope Benett Cardinals fanatic.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That'll Mitchell and nest I just think they'll take your door.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I heard bombed his confessional interviews.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You honestly believe that Turkson is more popable than Parallel
I advocating, okay, speaks five. Last, it's the Vatican, ever,
it speaks last. He's a playmaker. Okay, he negotiates treaties.
You getting drafted as a Lutheran free but.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
The first to pick in the pope a draft the
Vatican selects.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
The average Catholic has no input on who their next
pope will be. They're just told and then all of
a sudden, I love them. He's great. So we heard
Michael Berris, who have decided that we would have a
lightning round to elect the next pope. We have as
much influence as anybody else. First off, we'll start with
Father Mulka, he from mash You remember him. It's Holy
Thursday and the Good Father is washing his own feet.
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Ah clear, very smart outfit.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You busy? Father?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Just washing my feet?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Parenthetically?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Did you know that it was the custom on Holy
Thursday for the pope to wash a poor man's feet.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So well, there's not much chance of his holiness showing
up here, so I thought i'd.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Do my own.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But seriously, clear, what can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Next, we have Father Carmine. You remember him When Rocky
Boboa needed a little extra help. That's where he'd go. Father,
come in, you know, maybe it's not home.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh lucky, Yo.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Can't talk about this day? Abarta?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Oh well, I didn't want to disturb you that much, Father,
not disturbable, Yeah, if I mean you have I'm man?
Oh excellent, everything is perfect, you know. Father, there's my
new friend Tommy gunn oh tom Dede.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That not a cound of shend zam everything rucky.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Well, I was wanting to you know, Tommy here is
a fighter and I was supposed to be his manager,
you know, So I was wondering if you could do
me a favor, you know, if he ain't that busy,
if you could throw us down a couple of blessings,
you know, like one that I don't messed up being
a manager and be that Tommy does as good as
I think you can do, you know great? And then
don't get hurt on you?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Could you do that?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Said? Who is?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
And you you know with nu padre seed you your
speeding basansu equis to see.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It love.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Times.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Father really appreciate this any time. Okay, I'll see you
at church.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Oh he said, what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Hey man, what'd you do this for?
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Don't hurt of an angel in your clue, you know blood.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Next we have Father Noah hard step Rivers. Extra credit
if you remember the priest in East La played by
Robert Blake in the short lived television program Helltown.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Now, I know you got cause, but remember the rules
in Helltown. Nobody kills nobody, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He was a home when he bought him.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I can't let the die him.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
He was off his turf. He shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Hey man, my people expect me to take care of business.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
You ain't taking care of no business, not unless you're
ready to come by me. Nobody dies in Helltown unless
it's from old age, your homeboy straight and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
He bought it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And finally, it is the projected front runner for those
of you who watched The Smothers Brothers. I've been rewatching
it lately. Oh it's so good, it's so clever, and
their music is just hilarious, or areas Mama always liked
you better. It's it's it's you can go back and
watch them now, and they're better than anything on TV.
Our projected front runner father Guido Sarducci. Here he was
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on The Smothers Brothers.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
That's all I hear about. America has to put the
dwns from all sides. I'm telling her, you have a hericane. Well,
this is one in your opinion, who thinks that it's
the time to speak up for the US. Where else
about in America can you get to the same great
hamburger thousands of miles apartment from one another. And the
same goes for the fries. You know, when you think
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of England, you think of a fish in the chips.
When you think of a Japan you think of a
rough fish. When you think of Iceland, you think of
a cod fish. But when you think of America, you
think of a hamburger. And everyone who knows a hamburger
is better than a fish any day. That's a first show. Otherwise,
why wouldn't God put the fish on land instead of
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those for it's so hard.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
To get.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You know, Christopher Columbus found this country for Spain. But
when there was a blackout on your east coast in
nineteen sixty five, did Spain even stand over one candle?
I answer that to question myself.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, And not one.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
European country came to America's aid when many of your
professional basketball clubs was losing thousands of dollars every day,
And when Richard Knixon resigned leave in America without a president,
not to one Latin American country sent to one of
their presidents to take as a place. Come on, let's
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hear it. Only thing the rest of the world ever
gave America was the flu.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You think of it.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
You've heard the London of flu, you' had the Hong
Kong of flu. Did America ever give it the world
the Trent and the flu? Did you ever give her
the world the Detroit the flu?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
There is no American flu except the Littenberg. And then
after he did, all they did was a copy in
back in the fort, back in and forth all of
the time. And where is in Mexico now that the
lake area is a polluted where are there pestels now?
And the finally, when the Viatnam I had a civil war,
America has sent over thousands of men to hold but
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when in the United States it had it's a civil award.
Feet Nam didn't even send one single assation.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Way a new cattle cattle luck.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I have a fine bott and Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So we've been talking about concierge care, the idea of
having a relationship with your doctor who has fewer patients.
You pay a little more. You pay a fee to them.
Some of the conciers doctors I know, Will Davis is
one of those. The fee that you pay up front,
you get you get this testing done so they have
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a baseline for what all was going on. But some
of that goes to a back office operator. You still
have administrative needs to run a practice, right and he
does testing when you start. I need to look at it,
but it's bp. There's there's one test he does on
your foot or your ankle to see if you're getting
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blood to your extremities, because that's important, folks. I'm not
a doctor, and I don't play one on the radio,
but I read a lot and I engage a lot
of smart people, and I don't take anybody's opinion. You
will never hear me say you know I'm doing that
because doctor says I have to this stupid idea that
I hear people say I have to do this. How
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come my doctor's making me. You have agency over your life,
not your doctor. Your doctor can advise you. Ask him why.
Maybe it's great advice, or maybe they got paid by
pharmaceutical company, or maybe they got a real cute pharmaceutical
rep who brings by lunch for the office every Wednesday,
and they got to push X number of that pill
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in order to keep up with the speaking fee that
they're gonna get at the end of the year, which
is really a kickback. Hey, that's fine too, as long as.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But my doctor told me to my doctorid I have
to I'm doctor told me doctor making me. It is
the dumbest thing I've ever The idea that other people
control you and you allow for that is complete nonsense.
I can't marry that girl. How come pastors said it
wouldn't be godly. Your pastor's in charge of what's godly.
I didn't know you were Catholic. I thought you were
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Southern Baptist. I thought you had agency in your own
relite relationship with Jesus Christ. I thought in prayer you
went and you saw it. I thought you gathered in
the church for a reason other than to be told
what to think. You know, we translated the Bible into
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the languages of the people so that we could read it,
and we don't have to have a god man telling
us what it says. You are aware of that, right,
I'm sorry. I was talking about Concierra's healthy care. Deep breath, Wayne,
You're on the Michael berriersh oh hey, wait, wait when
what I was trying to get out and then I
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get off on these stupid tangents. I don't know why
I do that. It's so irritating it makes me mad.
Is get your baselines folk. You ought to know what
your BP is, what your heart rate is, what your
diabetes pre markers are, your testosterone. You ought to know
all that stuff. I get it all tested once a year.
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That way, when you go into the doctor and he goes,
WHOA your A one C is here? Well maybe it's
always been that way. You'd be surprised how many people
have bad markers, but they've had bad markers. Since they
were thirteen, they got bad genes. What you're looking at
is trend lines. You want to know whether that's going
up or down or remaining flat. And you got to
have a base level when you're healthy to get to
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that point. All right, Wayne, thank you for waiting so long.
I appreciate that. Why did you switch to conciers, Karen,
how's that going for you?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Well? She she used to be a rigor I guess
you call her a grigor practitioner, and then she said
she was moving over and you know, man, that's kind
of expensive. So she gave me information for another doctor
and I went to him, but I didn't like him.
I mean it just he seemed like he was kind
of like rush me in and rushed me out, and
I didn't like that. So I went back to her after,
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you know, a couple of months, and I love it.
I mean, she's it's a female, and she would she
didn't even called check up on me. I could call
her if I needed something or if I had a problem,
or they'd get me in that day, you know, And
I think it's all worth it, I really do.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You know, you said something very interesting. People want really
really good and really really cheap, and it's going to
be one of the other almost always, almost always, you
can fool yourself otherwise. And I find it fascinating that
people will. You know, I went on this carnival cruise
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and it was terrible. Why'd you go? It was cheap.
It was cheap for the other people too. Sometimes we
price things, we bake into an inflated price, keeping other
people out. Now, I'll give you an example. The toll
road authority is an absolute and utter scam. They've collected
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more money than it takes. They have more money that
they could pay it off right now. But then people
would say, stop charging me the toll. It's a very
difficult situation because there's so much fraud and corruption going
on over there, just awful fraud and corruption. However, let's
say you started a new toll road tomorrow and you
charged a dollar to get on it. People say, I
want to drive, pay a dollar, pay my taxes already.
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But we built this on the basis of an income stream,
which is the toll. What nobody understands is paying a
dollar is a way to keep everybody else off of it.
We go on an exclusive vacation or we eat a
fancy restaurant, or this is the one we do every day.
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We all move into the neighborhood with the least crime. Well,
guess what. The neighborhood with the least crime is not
the lowest priced neighborhood. It's the highest price neighborhood. And
factored into that driving the price more than anything else,
more than size, finishes, lot, schools, anything else, is crime rate.
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That's the way it works. That's why places like wes
West University or south Side Place or the villages have
incredibly high prices. They have their own police department. That's serious.
Riverroaks Police, Riverroaks patrol. Ropo guy was breaking into houses
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the other night. Ropo actually carries a gun shot and
killed a bastard. Good be done with him. So you
also have to understand that sometimes you pay a little more. Well,
everybody wants to pour mount. People will tell me I
can't afford that. You're driving one hundred thousand, brand new,
one hundred thousand dollars truck. You just bought a boat.
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You can afford a lot of things you don't want
to pay for that. There's a big difference. I want
really nice stuff, but I don't want to pay for it. Okay,
how does that work? If you want exclusivity, you have
to pay for exclusivity. Now, the guy making eight dollars
an hour, he can't afford that that much. Is true,
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that's a fact. But you're not that guy. Stop acting
like you are by paying more for the concierges that
goes directly to the doctor. You heard what will David said,
he viewed he gets five to ten patients a day
instead of thirty five. See when you go to the
doctor and you're waiting forever because it's stacked up, and
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then you're in and out real quick. You could have
paid a little more. Ten of you could have paid
more so that the doctor could only have to see
ten of you. Oh no, I want that practice where
the NBA owns it and he's got to run as
many people through there as possible. The doctor doesn't enjoy
that either. Well, here's an option. You pay a little
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more to go. I don't have any money, because that's
what people do. Everybody wants a deal. Everybody wants to
pay less. I can't afford it. When I sit down
with people and start talking about what you can and
cannot afford, you can afford this, you just can't also
afford that. And there's a lot of other stuff that
you afford that are probably not as important to you
as having a good doctor. But hey, Sarah, you waited forever, sweetheart,
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Take us to the break. Why did you switch in?
Speaker 9 (33:50):
How do you like it? I just need to go
see it doctor, Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Go ahead, you got it to the break. It's all you.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Oh okay, my insurance actually covered it. And the doctor
the first time I talked to her, she said, your
body is screaming to you. Let's see what it's trying
to say. She drew labs. I left with the referral
to mammogram, a referral to deritologists for a mole. She
found that I was anemic, and then she sent me
to get an ultrasound on my uners to make sure
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that that's not why I'm anemic. But she's covering all
of her bases, and I've just never felt like anybody's
had gotten a clear picture of my physical health.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You didn't have anything wrong with your gew to us,
did you.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Oh okay, and the mole you don't know. Well, good luck, sir.
I'm glad you called good luck to your sweetheart.
It's that time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air. Kelly Peakley right.
Our family has been with doc Healthcare since its inception
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in twenty seventeen here in College Station. It was started
and run by doctor Joel Richards, former er doc here
in town. It's the best healthcare decision we ever made.
He has expanded in a big way, now offering services
outside of Brian College Station. His people include pediatricians, functional medicine,
IV fluids labs and a lot more. They offer affordable
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plans or pay as needed for appointments. We haven't stepped
foot in a doctor's office since twenty seventeen. We only
have visits in the comfort of our own home. CJ.
Landry writes, I love the conzier's doctor we had years ago,
but make sure you ask about critical care support. How
does the concierge doc handle a heartache from their patients.
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Many small business owners can't afford Obamacare or don't want
to pay for this terrible coverage, so they opt for
concierge Care. However, this doesn't cover major medical issues. What
do they suggest for a solution? And finally, John Green writes,
I've been a patient in a concier's practice now for
two and a half years. One of the greatest things
I've ever done, and it changed my life. I'll keep
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it short. He didn't. In twenty twenty one, I was
hospitalized with severe COVID for a week and almost died.
I was overweight and needed my health assessed Tatata. In
late twenty twenty one, I emailed you for a recommendation,
and you put me in touch with doctor Mary Tally Boden.
She recommended I find a concierge practice, but said she
didn't know anyone in my area, which is Richmond, to recommend.
A short while later, I was at a dentist appointment
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that I asked ad this. He recommended doctor Frank Matza
in Richmond. I went talked to him one day, fell
in love. He takes the time to talk to me.
His staff's available by cell phone twenty four hours a day.
He's put me on the road to better health. Michael,
my weight is down, MI cholesterol's low, my AC is low.
AC A one C is low. Most importantly, my wife
is happy that I'm taking care of my health. Yes,
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it is more expensive, but I think Concierg's medicine is
one hundred percent worth every penny. Happy to share my story,
but please refer to me only as Johnny. Oh well,
you should have put that in the first line, since
I read it as it came off hot off the
press printer. All right, doctor will Davis, and then we're
going to go to doctor I think it's Steelman is
the other Will Davis? When patients transfer over to you.
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I'm guessing a lot of your how many, however many patients?
You have hundreds of patients. A lot of them were
already with you and then just moved over to the
concierge practice when you changed over to that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Ah, yes, sir, so a lot of them are originally
patient for a long time. And then most of my
growth over the last six seven years has been through
word of mouth from either family members, spouses, friends, and
that's how it's grown. And you know it was one thing, Michael,
I meant to say earlier, as you know you mentioned before,
is that for me? I think it's I had two
older doctors who are my mentors who are now passed,
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but it's we're basically as concierge doctors, old school doctors.
It's back to the old style that you have that
relationship you had your grandparents had with their doctors.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think that's important. You know, when the NBAS took
over the practices and started trying to wring money out
of them, which is what you do. It's it's it's business.
But but people people had. This wasn't business. This wasn't
trying to make a few more pennies off a Coca
cola or a ticket to a concert with more fees.
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This was this is intimate, man, especially when you have concerns.
You know, you got a lump, you know what? What
what should I do? You you've got something wrong? You
know what? What is the point from which I can't
pass my bowels for twenty four hours becomes forty eight?
What's the point where there's a danger zone? You know,
there's there's there's shame, there's it's raw and and these
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are the kind of things that you want to trust
the person you're talking to. And I think that more
than anything else, more even than the dollars and cents,
I think that matters to people.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I agree. I mean, I think, you know, to a
lot of degree, I'm as much of a therapist at
times to my patients as I am their doctor because
they can come to me for anything, and I really
tell them, you know, some of them hesitate to actually
contact me because they don't want to take up my time.
And I'm like, look, if you have a problem, you
need to let me know because I can't help you
if I if I don't know, and I mean, it's
it's you know, it's again one of the things I
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like to say, it's you know, a lot of doctors
think that it's a privilege for a patient to see them.
For me, I like to always say that it's a
privilege for me.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
To be able to take care of them.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, you are in a situation. A lot of doctors
are not. Your bedside manner is fantastic because you are.
You are very social, very easy to communicate. You like people,
You're interested in people. I think a lot of doctors,
traditionally before this was such an important thing. We're all
about the science and the healing. And I find when
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people say so and so is a great doctor, they
don't know how well he cuts when they're under anesthesia.
They don't know how well he recognizes, you know, this
lump or that they know that he's likable, and likability
is key in your politician and your doctor in all
of it. How do folks reach you, Will Davis?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
So they most of the time they will text me.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And it is the general public. If you're still if
you're taking new patients, reach you.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So they could call my office number which is seven
one three seven eight three nine two eight seven, or
they can look me up on mdvip dot com under
Will Davis.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Now it says Memorial Hermon Health System. Are you a
so city with them in some way?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So I am affiliated with them through a program called
MHMD which they go ahead and help us manage certain
contracts and a certain other Yeah, it's not it's not
a full affiliation.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That they need more docs so that they can get
the group buying discount. You need their back office. It
makes sense. And you are at guest and.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
What West Timer.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Guestner in West Timmer All right, doctor Will Davis, Thank you, buddy, Yes, sir,
thank you, sir, Doctor Steelman. Hello, welcome to the program, sir,
thank you. So tell me about your practice and how
when you got into this concierge model and.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Why sure, so we are a Concier Direct Primary Care
office in Shenandoah, Texas, just outside the entrance to Woodlands,
and we started about a year year and a half ago.
The the why was was pretty easy. Just all of
my patients in the hospital kept asking me to open
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an office, and there weren't a whole lot of primary
care docs around.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's hard to get an appointment. So what does that
look like? What does a patient pay to get started?
And then do they file their insurance with How does
that work?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
So our version and a lot of these are very
similar but also a little bit different. So you know
you'll find variation between all different kinds of Concier practice.
But our model, the direct primary care model, is based
on a low cost monthly membership and in exchange for that,
you get no copaid, You get all the services done
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in the office health called texting twenty four to seven,
access anytime you want at no costs. There's no charge
for office visits or anything like that. So we try
to lower the costs for accessibility. It comes right now.
We're at one twenty five a month with no enrollment fee,
no no required membership. We will on everybody to be
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really happy with the service.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Hold with me for just a moment seven one three
nine nine one thousand and seven one three nine nine
one thousand. We will talk further about there have to
be better solutions to healthcare and we can't wait around
for the government to solve that. There are things out
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there that you should at least be looking at.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
And this is my damn country. I thought for this country.
This is mine talk.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I don't say this to frag I say this to
encourage you to look around spending time on your healthcare
before you need it. It's very strategic. You can't wake
up at sixty and go I need to retire. I
need to plan for my retirement because I'm going to
retire in a few years. It's too late. Your first job.
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You should be putting away money into your investments, not
just for your retirement, but so that you're not limited
to what you make being the wealth you create. Other
people are making money by loaning you money. You should
make money off investments from day one, but it's something
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you have to think about ahead of time. Nobody comes
to your desk and signs you up and says, all right,
here are some good investments. Here's how to diversify your portfolio.
Here has historically been the return on this type of investment,
and this is what you'll want to do in you
to figure it out. You got to figure it all out,
but you got to know that this is going to
be more important than a lot of other things that
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people spend a lot of time doing. I know people
who don't have a penny invested, don't have a single
relationship with a doctor, but they can tell you every
detail so soon as are my friends, they can tell
you every detail of the woman Bill Belichick is with
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and they're scandalized, and they've watched every podcast with every
opinion and oh my god, and she said to shut
the interview down and she wasn't going to answer how
they met, and can you believe this? But I know
they met at that Okay, if that's how you want
to spend your time, that's fine. But I can live
life without worrying about Bill Belichick who he's having sex with,
which is really weird while you're that obsessed with it.
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But what I try to take care of is things
that I know are coming, and that is financial needs
and health care. And you're only going to put that
off for so long, there will come a time you
need it. So why not start doing the research now?
Why not start having conversations? I think it's very important,
doctor Steelman. Hell, all right, So what do you find
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most your patients find most rewarding about being in this
concierge practice?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So the I mean, it's it's really individual what they're
looking for. We see a lot of different paces of
different uh, you know, needs, But the biggest thing is
just having access to a doctor is not rushed and
mostly that we're very independent and not influenced by insurance
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or by government you know, requirements and things like that.
So we we operate outside of any of that insurance influence.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And how does that matter practically speaking?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I mean, it's it's actually really really easy to see
and we're very very transparent. That's the first thing is
that in healthcare, one one of the bigger problems that
we have is that nobody knows how much anything costs.
So with our practice, we make a big emphasis on
being very transparent. You see the actual prices with us,
and everything that you get through us after your you know,
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paying the membership fee is wholesale. It is exactly the
price that the market pays, so we pay cash for things,
and we can generally get labs, imaging, medication supplements, things
like that. About a tense the price.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Right because we're cutting out the silly, silly, silly insurance scam.
And that's the one. So what's interesting about that is
people say they want truth, but for most politicians other
than Trump, they don't want the truth. They want the
political talk. They want everybody wants to believe that. You know,
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what I want to be the case is what he
wants to be the case. And he wouldn't tell me otherwise. Well,
it's funny. People don't't talk about money. But if you
put a sign up front and it says this is
what it's going to cost, I think that's jarring for people.
And I think that's partly become because they've grown accustomed
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to pretending that that's not going to happen, that there's
not going to be a charge. If we don't think
about it, we put it off. If I don't think
about the exam on Thursday, I don't have to study
for it today and it won't bother me. It won't
cause me any any concern. But it's the only industry
I know of where you go, you go in the
services rendered, and later you find out how much it costs.
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Imagine going to lone Star Chevy, you go see Mike
bachiss a GM, you decide which one you want without
any regard to what anything costs. I really like that
when you drive off and three weeks letter you get
a letter that you owe x amount of money and
you had no idea what. You hope it won't be bad,
but you have no It's just insanity, that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Agree, so our you know one example we had just
I mean this is every single week for us, but
we had one patient come in for sick labs. They
had been thrown up and real thick for about a
week or so, and we send them off.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
For a lab.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
We have a national GPO contract to get our labs
a full comprehensive panel to get them straight. Was twenty
one dollars with up and cash price with insurance with
three hundred and eighty three bucks. I mean, that's there's
there's no question where the value is.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, what people people may not know is when you
go to your doctor, there are very likely as many people,
if not more, in a back office who are handling paperwork,
fighting with insurance companies all day long and trying to
get what service they delivered to you which you needed.
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Then you were sick, then forget how important that was.
You get healthy and you go, I know you needed
it then, And that's not the delivery of medicine. That
is simp that is stupid paperwork. You know. We went
to San Antoni this weekend, brought my brother in law
and sister in law, my wife's sister and her husband,
and they live in a and we were planning the
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next day what time we needed to leave, because where
we needed to be, because we had reservations, and they said,
and I said, we'll leave thirty minutes before we're to
be at LaFond of the restaurant because it's fifteen minutes away.
And they said, oh, so we need to be down
at eight thirty instead of nine thirty. And I said,
why would you need to do that and they said, well,
we need to check out probably it's busy. So I'm
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figuring what what should it take forty five minutes to
check out? I said, no, you don't check out, you
just walk out? We do you mean you can't? And
because in India and they learned this from the British.
Everything you stand in line to get a document to
get into the next line, and somebody signs it and
they don't review. It's just all of this rigmarole for
no good reason. It doesn't help heal people. And to
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be able to cut through that, I can't imagine how
much that helps your bottom line because now you don't
have to have all this staff to deal with the
insurance company and all the things that go with that.
That's got to be so much more rewarding for you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, when we started putting the business together, the billing
companies take five or ten percent off the top from
from any money you're making the business, So that's automatically
a much better business relationship.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So well, good for you, doctor Steelman. Thanks for being
our guest seven one three one thousand. I would like
to hear from someone who has switched over to Concierge's
Care and what they thought of it. We didn't get
nothing the hard time to Michael Show, it's a damn shame.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's a damn shame.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's a damn shame. It's a damn shame. All Right,
we've got folks on the line who have concierge care
response and when we get to those in just a moment.
I did want to make sure we got in today
because Fox has gone wall to wall. I don't know
what the others are doing, but everyone is excited over
(16:55):
the papal conclave of the big vote today from your
Catholic do y all gather around the TV like it's
an NFL draft because they're showing each of the candidates,
and they show he's like a baseball card. They show
his photo in the country he's from, and who appointed him.
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I'm going to get so many emails from people who
are upset. And you know what I find funny about this,
I mean just hilarious in the most biting way. Michael,
I can't believe you were being disrespectful to Catholics. You
view my reaction to what I'm watching as disrespectful to you.
(17:43):
I didn't realize you were involved in that. I'm a Catholic. Oh,
you play for that team, So since you play for
that team, I'm supposed to pretend I think this whole
thing is normal. I'm watching grown men parade around and
elect the next most powerful person, one of the most
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powerful people in the world. Who's going to offer opinions
on America's immigration policies. It's completely alien to me. I
know nothing about it. That's not true. But well, how
about this. If I were to show you a Muslim event,
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do you think it would be fair for your boss, employee,
or neighbor to be upset at you because you think
that having a prayer on a busy street in New
York early in the morning before people are up, and
you think that's ridiculous and absurd. Does that mean that
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every Muslim should be mad at you, even though they
live in La they're Shia and that Sunni. Stop this nonsense.
You don't have anything to do with that. And by
the way, it's kind of funny. If you're not part
of it, it's kind of funny. And if it can't
be funny without you gett your feelings hurt, go join
Antifa because it's the same mindset comedian Chris Sanders and
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his friends. Imagine what it would be like if people
did gather around the TV like the NFL Draft. Are
you watching the NFL Draft?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Watching the Pope Draft.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So many good prospects in the College of Cardinals. Yeah,
like Peter and Luis Antonio tag Sanders, I got my
money on there.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why Cardinal a bar.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
I couldn't bless a blind feet if you suck inside
of an orphanage.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Shoug got my rookie year of Pope Benett Cardinals fanatic.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That'll Mitchell and nest I just think they'll take your door.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I heard bombed his confessional interviews.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You honestly believe that Turkson is more popable than Parallel
I advocating, okay, speaks five. Last, it's the Vatican, ever,
it speaks last. He's a playmaker. Okay, he negotiates treaties.
You getting drafted as a Lutheran free but.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
The first to pick in the pope a draft the
Vatican selects.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
The average Catholic has no input on who their next
pope will be. They're just told and then all of
a sudden, I love them. He's great. So we heard
Michael Berris, who have decided that we would have a
lightning round to elect the next pope. We have as
much influence as anybody else. First off, we'll start with
Father Mulka, he from mash You remember him. It's Holy
Thursday and the Good Father is washing his own feet.
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Ah clear, very smart outfit.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
You busy? Father?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Just washing my feet?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Parenthetically?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Did you know that it was the custom on Holy
Thursday for the pope to wash a poor man's feet.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So well, there's not much chance of his holiness showing
up here, so I thought i'd.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Do my own.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But seriously, clear, what can I do for you?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Next, we have Father Carmine. You remember him When Rocky
Boboa needed a little extra help. That's where he'd go. Father,
come in, you know, maybe it's not home.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Oh lucky, Yo.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Can't talk about this day? Abarta?
Speaker 8 (21:12):
Oh well, I didn't want to disturb you that much, Father,
not disturbable, Yeah, if I mean you have I'm man?
Oh excellent, everything is perfect, you know. Father, there's my
new friend Tommy gunn oh tom Dede.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
That not a cound of shend zam everything rucky.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Well, I was wanting to you know, Tommy here is
a fighter and I was supposed to be his manager,
you know, So I was wondering if you could do
me a favor, you know, if he ain't that busy,
if you could throw us down a couple of blessings,
you know, like one that I don't messed up being
a manager and be that Tommy does as good as
I think you can do, you know great? And then
don't get hurt on you?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Could you do that?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Said? Who is?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
And you you know with nu padre seed you your
speeding basansu equis to see.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
It love.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Times.
Speaker 8 (21:57):
Father really appreciate this any time. Okay, I'll see you
at church.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Oh he said, what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Hey man, what'd you do this for?
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Don't hurt of an angel in your clue, you know blood.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Next we have Father Noah hard step Rivers. Extra credit
if you remember the priest in East La played by
Robert Blake in the short lived television program Helltown.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Now, I know you got cause, but remember the rules
in Helltown. Nobody kills nobody, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He was a home when he bought him.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I can't let the die him.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
He was off his turf. He shouldn't have been there.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Hey man, my people expect me to take care of business.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
You ain't taking care of no business, not unless you're
ready to come by me. Nobody dies in Helltown unless
it's from old age, your homeboy straight and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
He bought it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And finally, it is the projected front runner for those
of you who watched The Smothers Brothers. I've been rewatching
it lately. Oh it's so good, it's so clever, and
their music is just hilarious, or areas Mama always liked
you better. It's it's it's you can go back and
watch them now, and they're better than anything on TV.
Our projected front runner father Guido Sarducci. Here he was
(23:11):
on The Smothers Brothers.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
That's all I hear about. America has to put the
dwns from all sides. I'm telling her, you have a hericane. Well,
this is one in your opinion, who thinks that it's
the time to speak up for the US. Where else
about in America can you get to the same great
hamburger thousands of miles apartment from one another. And the
same goes for the fries. You know, when you think
(23:37):
of England, you think of a fish in the chips.
When you think of a Japan you think of a
rough fish. When you think of Iceland, you think of
a cod fish. But when you think of America, you
think of a hamburger. And everyone who knows a hamburger
is better than a fish any day. That's a first show. Otherwise,
why wouldn't God put the fish on land instead of
(23:59):
those for it's so hard.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
To get.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You know, Christopher Columbus found this country for Spain. But
when there was a blackout on your east coast in
nineteen sixty five, did Spain even stand over one candle?
I answer that to question myself.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No, And not one.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
European country came to America's aid when many of your
professional basketball clubs was losing thousands of dollars every day,
And when Richard Knixon resigned leave in America without a president,
not to one Latin American country sent to one of
their presidents to take as a place. Come on, let's
(24:41):
hear it. Only thing the rest of the world ever
gave America was the flu.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
You think of it.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
You've heard the London of flu, you' had the Hong
Kong of flu. Did America ever give it the world
the Trent and the flu? Did you ever give her
the world the Detroit the flu?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:00):
There is no American flu except the Littenberg. And then
after he did, all they did was a copy in
back in the fort, back in and forth all of
the time. And where is in Mexico now that the
lake area is a polluted where are there pestels now?
And the finally, when the Viatnam I had a civil war,
America has sent over thousands of men to hold but
(25:22):
when in the United States it had it's a civil award.
Feet Nam didn't even send one single assation.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Way a new cattle cattle luck.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I have a fine bott and Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So we've been talking about concierge care, the idea of
having a relationship with your doctor who has fewer patients.
You pay a little more. You pay a fee to them.
Some of the conciers doctors I know, Will Davis is
one of those. The fee that you pay up front,
you get you get this testing done so they have
(26:02):
a baseline for what all was going on. But some
of that goes to a back office operator. You still
have administrative needs to run a practice, right and he
does testing when you start. I need to look at it,
but it's bp. There's there's one test he does on
your foot or your ankle to see if you're getting
(26:23):
blood to your extremities, because that's important, folks. I'm not
a doctor, and I don't play one on the radio,
but I read a lot and I engage a lot
of smart people, and I don't take anybody's opinion. You
will never hear me say you know I'm doing that
because doctor says I have to this stupid idea that
I hear people say I have to do this. How
(26:44):
come my doctor's making me. You have agency over your life,
not your doctor. Your doctor can advise you. Ask him why.
Maybe it's great advice, or maybe they got paid by
pharmaceutical company, or maybe they got a real cute pharmaceutical
rep who brings by lunch for the office every Wednesday,
and they got to push X number of that pill
(27:06):
in order to keep up with the speaking fee that
they're gonna get at the end of the year, which
is really a kickback. Hey, that's fine too, as long as.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But my doctor told me to my doctorid I have
to I'm doctor told me doctor making me. It is
the dumbest thing I've ever The idea that other people
control you and you allow for that is complete nonsense.
I can't marry that girl. How come pastors said it
wouldn't be godly. Your pastor's in charge of what's godly.
I didn't know you were Catholic. I thought you were
(27:36):
Southern Baptist. I thought you had agency in your own
relite relationship with Jesus Christ. I thought in prayer you
went and you saw it. I thought you gathered in
the church for a reason other than to be told
what to think. You know, we translated the Bible into
(27:58):
the languages of the people so that we could read it,
and we don't have to have a god man telling
us what it says. You are aware of that, right,
I'm sorry. I was talking about Concierra's healthy care. Deep breath, Wayne,
You're on the Michael berriersh oh hey, wait, wait when
what I was trying to get out and then I
(28:19):
get off on these stupid tangents. I don't know why
I do that. It's so irritating it makes me mad.
Is get your baselines folk. You ought to know what
your BP is, what your heart rate is, what your
diabetes pre markers are, your testosterone. You ought to know
all that stuff. I get it all tested once a year.
(28:40):
That way, when you go into the doctor and he goes,
WHOA your A one C is here? Well maybe it's
always been that way. You'd be surprised how many people
have bad markers, but they've had bad markers. Since they
were thirteen, they got bad genes. What you're looking at
is trend lines. You want to know whether that's going
up or down or remaining flat. And you got to
have a base level when you're healthy to get to
(29:02):
that point. All right, Wayne, thank you for waiting so long.
I appreciate that. Why did you switch to conciers, Karen,
how's that going for you?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Well? She she used to be a rigor I guess
you call her a grigor practitioner, and then she said
she was moving over and you know, man, that's kind
of expensive. So she gave me information for another doctor
and I went to him, but I didn't like him.
I mean it just he seemed like he was kind
of like rush me in and rushed me out, and
I didn't like that. So I went back to her after,
(29:32):
you know, a couple of months, and I love it.
I mean, she's it's a female, and she would she
didn't even called check up on me. I could call
her if I needed something or if I had a problem,
or they'd get me in that day, you know, And
I think it's all worth it, I really do.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You know, you said something very interesting. People want really
really good and really really cheap, and it's going to
be one of the other almost always, almost always, you
can fool yourself otherwise. And I find it fascinating that
people will. You know, I went on this carnival cruise
(30:13):
and it was terrible. Why'd you go? It was cheap.
It was cheap for the other people too. Sometimes we
price things, we bake into an inflated price, keeping other
people out. Now, I'll give you an example. The toll
road authority is an absolute and utter scam. They've collected
(30:35):
more money than it takes. They have more money that
they could pay it off right now. But then people
would say, stop charging me the toll. It's a very
difficult situation because there's so much fraud and corruption going
on over there, just awful fraud and corruption. However, let's
say you started a new toll road tomorrow and you
charged a dollar to get on it. People say, I
want to drive, pay a dollar, pay my taxes already.
(30:57):
But we built this on the basis of an income stream,
which is the toll. What nobody understands is paying a
dollar is a way to keep everybody else off of it.
We go on an exclusive vacation or we eat a
fancy restaurant, or this is the one we do every day.
(31:17):
We all move into the neighborhood with the least crime. Well,
guess what. The neighborhood with the least crime is not
the lowest priced neighborhood. It's the highest price neighborhood. And
factored into that driving the price more than anything else,
more than size, finishes, lot, schools, anything else, is crime rate.
(31:42):
That's the way it works. That's why places like wes
West University or south Side Place or the villages have
incredibly high prices. They have their own police department. That's serious.
Riverroaks Police, Riverroaks patrol. Ropo guy was breaking into houses
(32:02):
the other night. Ropo actually carries a gun shot and
killed a bastard. Good be done with him. So you
also have to understand that sometimes you pay a little more. Well,
everybody wants to pour mount. People will tell me I
can't afford that. You're driving one hundred thousand, brand new,
one hundred thousand dollars truck. You just bought a boat.
(32:22):
You can afford a lot of things you don't want
to pay for that. There's a big difference. I want
really nice stuff, but I don't want to pay for it. Okay,
how does that work? If you want exclusivity, you have
to pay for exclusivity. Now, the guy making eight dollars
an hour, he can't afford that that much. Is true,
(32:42):
that's a fact. But you're not that guy. Stop acting
like you are by paying more for the concierges that
goes directly to the doctor. You heard what will David said,
he viewed he gets five to ten patients a day
instead of thirty five. See when you go to the
doctor and you're waiting forever because it's stacked up, and
(33:03):
then you're in and out real quick. You could have
paid a little more. Ten of you could have paid
more so that the doctor could only have to see
ten of you. Oh no, I want that practice where
the NBA owns it and he's got to run as
many people through there as possible. The doctor doesn't enjoy
that either. Well, here's an option. You pay a little
(33:24):
more to go. I don't have any money, because that's
what people do. Everybody wants a deal. Everybody wants to
pay less. I can't afford it. When I sit down
with people and start talking about what you can and
cannot afford, you can afford this, you just can't also
afford that. And there's a lot of other stuff that
you afford that are probably not as important to you
as having a good doctor. But hey, Sarah, you waited forever, sweetheart,
(33:48):
Take us to the break. Why did you switch in?
Speaker 9 (33:50):
How do you like it? I just need to go
see it doctor, Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Go ahead, you got it to the break. It's all you.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Oh okay, my insurance actually covered it. And the doctor
the first time I talked to her, she said, your
body is screaming to you. Let's see what it's trying
to say. She drew labs. I left with the referral
to mammogram, a referral to deritologists for a mole. She
found that I was anemic, and then she sent me
to get an ultrasound on my uners to make sure
(34:22):
that that's not why I'm anemic. But she's covering all
of her bases, and I've just never felt like anybody's
had gotten a clear picture of my physical health.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
You didn't have anything wrong with your gew to us,
did you.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
I don't know yet.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Oh okay, and the mole you don't know. Well, good luck, sir.
I'm glad you called good luck to your sweetheart.
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