Doctor Paul, MD

A small-town doctor working to preserve the art of old-fashioned primary care.

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Background

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Categories:

  • Alternative View Points
  • Background
  • Breast Cancer – our new normal
  • Dealing with Loss
  • Direct Care
  • Healthcare facts
  • Medicine in the News
  • Practice of Medicine
  • Uncategorized
  • Why Change

Authors:

  • Paul Williams (146)

Monthly:

  • December 2020
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  • December 2019
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  • November 2017
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  • December 2016
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  • August 2015
  • March 2015
  • December 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014

Recent Posts:

  • Conclusion
  • Content whatever the circumstances
  • Life’s defining moments
  • More Firsts; more to come
  • Thoughts on perspective
  • It still is a struggle
  • Uncertain times, solid faith
  • Sustaining love
  • Love language
  • Loss as teacher
  • Perspective
  • Birthday remembrance
  • Christmas
  • Acquainted with grief
  • Thanksgiving
  • A new day, Today
  • Redeeming our stories
  • Grace Disguised
  • Dealing with loss
  • Celebration of Theresa’s life
  • In the loving arms of Jesus
  • We tread on holy ground
  • Rapid turn of events
  • Disney
  • Echo – negligible effusion
  • Anti-Androgen medications
  • A Grief Observed
  • “All is well” in spite of it all
  • PET Scan
  • The maturing of faith
  • Rest and renewal
  • Slow but steady improvement
  • Sepsis, DVT, Anemia, fatigue
  • Complications and God’s Grace
  • Graduation
  • 4 of 6 cycles and graduation
  • A chemo free week
  • Happy Mother’s Day
  • Steadfast
  • Chemo #4
  • Port placement
  • A good week
  • Redeeming suffering
  • And now the Rollercoaster
  • U-turn
  • Facing the inevitable
  • Cough – cancer’s new presentation
  • January 2019 Update
  • June update – all good
  • 1 year anniversary since the end of treatment
  • Thanks Giving
  • 6 months in remission and almost done with Physical Therapy.
  • Recovering from Shoulder surgery and Happy 4th of July
  • Port out, shoulder surgery next.
  • Say Amen
  • The storm has passed, smooth water for now
  • Remission and focus on health
  • Drain placement
  • Enjoying the calm
  • The Final Herceptin dose
  • Island Dance
  • Blessings
  • Time of Thankfulness
  • A time for Thanks
  • Radiation completed
  • Pain and thankfulness
  • Faithfulness
  • Grateful for today
  • Doing what we ought
  • Perseverance
  • Sunshine
  • Sustenance
  • Tattooing
  • More than conquerors
  • Energy enough for canning, what a blessing
  • Analysis and the analytical mind
  • Healing from surgery
  • Surgery
  • Up coming surgery
  • All this and Jesus too!
  • Praise God from whom all blessings flow
  • Life is good right now
  • Trip of celebration
  • How to proceed?
  • PET scan
  • Fork in the road
  • Wavering is part of the journey
  • Trials are blessings…
  • No storms on the horizon
  • Life is good, prayers are answered
  • A Mother’s day we might not have had
  • Light at the end of the Tunnel
  • Gains not losses this week
  • Better Days Ahead
  • 0.3% and the end of Chemo
  • Chemo 3 of 6
  • Cautious optimism (a miracle in progress)
  • Roller coaster
  • The Prayer connection
  • Ups and downs, mostly up

Categories

  • Alternative View Points (3)
  • Background (3)
  • Breast Cancer – our new normal (90)
  • Dealing with Loss (19)
  • Direct Care (8)
  • Healthcare facts (5)
  • Medicine in the News (5)
  • Practice of Medicine (10)
  • Uncategorized (2)
  • Why Change (1)

Recent Posts

  • Conclusion December 19, 2020
  • Content whatever the circumstances November 14, 2020
  • Life’s defining moments September 27, 2020
  • More Firsts; more to come July 14, 2020
  • Thoughts on perspective May 31, 2020
  • It still is a struggle May 3, 2020
  • Uncertain times, solid faith March 30, 2020
  • Sustaining love March 8, 2020

About Doctor Paul

Dr. Paul Williams, MD is a small-town family practice doctor working in Centralia, Washington. He works from the same office where his primary care practice was established by his father over 38 years ago. He believes strongly that the art of the old-fashioned primary care doctor is an important feature of our medical system that should be preserved and protected from excess interference from insurance companies and government regulation alike.

Due to changes in the health care industry and regulations affecting it, and in an effort to preserve the art of old-fashioned primary care, Dr. Paul has shifted his practice to a Direct Care model, meaning that patients pay an affordable monthly fee to purchase primary care health care services directly, rather than having their services billed through an insurance company.

This blog is intended to help Dr. Paul's patients (and anyone else!) understand the changes the medical industry is going through, and to provide information about the Direct Care model of primary care.

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