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(upbeat music)

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(indistinct)

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- All these people coming
in, supposed to come in,

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and then we'll have
walk-ins on top of that.

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- So there's only one ready.

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- Yes, ma'am.

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- Okay, you don't sound that good.

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You sound really stuffy.

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- Mm-hmm.

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- Are you sneezing too?

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- [Chani] Mm-hmm.

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- Okay, how long has it been going on for?

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- It started up, I wanna say Saturday.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] And you said
your nerves aren't doing well.

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- My depression isn't doing very well,

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I've been finding myself,

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it's getting harder and harder and harder

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to get out of bed every morning.

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Just don't wanna do anything at all.

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It feels like I'm having
to take care of everybody,

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and nobody wants to clean
up after themselves,

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I'm having to clean up after everybody,

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take care of everybody.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] Has it
ever gotten to the point

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where you think about hurting yourself,

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wishing you weren't here?

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- Um, it has,

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but then I think about Lilly,

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and that seems to help
me stay away from that.

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- Uh-huh.

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- That's another reason I got
love tattooed on my wrist.

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It's there to remind me
that there are people

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that do love me and need me.

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And I know my sister
would, with us combined,

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we've lost a lot already,

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and we don't need to lose each other.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] It's great to have that.

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- Yeah, I know if
anything I have my sister.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] Are we sure
you're not pregnant now?

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- [Chani] I took two
pregnancy tests yesterday,

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and my period's supposed to be showing up

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in four days,

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and they both came back negative.

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- Okay, so you might be. (laughs)

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What do you want?

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- I wanna have another baby.

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I want a little boy.

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I really want a little boy.

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- If you're feeling worse

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in the meantime call me or come in.

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- Okay.

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- Okay?

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Okay sweetheart.

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And maybe it's not quite the right time

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to get pregnant again, I don't know.

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- Well if it happens it happens. (laughs)

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- Okay, sweetheart, hope
you're feeling better.

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- Thank you, bye.

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(gentle music)

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- [Chani] If she closed down,

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that means we'd have to travel

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to find somebody that would take us.

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Like I said, right now we don't
have any health insurance.

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- [Jenna] Did they get the pan fixed?

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- They sprayed the pan
last time they were here,

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they said they,

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- How you gonna fix it by spraying?

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- [Brandi] There's some leak
stuff they can put on it,

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but they said if this does not work

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she's gonna have to get a new unit.

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- There's termites in the door,

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we can't fix the gaps in the door,

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because there's termites in the wall,

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and we'd have to tear out some of the wall

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just to fix the door, it's just
you try and fix one problem,

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and there's another problem behind it-

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- Right behind it.

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- That's even bigger that
you would have to fix

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just to fix a small problem.

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- And the posters on the walls
are mainly covering up holes.

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- [Cameraman] Have health
inspectors come through and...

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- No.

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- I'm sure if they did we'd
shut down. (snapping fingers)

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- When you're in a city like this,

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what health inspectors are gonna come

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to a rural area like this?

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- I mean nobody's gonna shut
down the only doctor's office

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in the county, nobody's
gonna shut it down.

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- Let me explain a little
bit about Clay County.

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We're one of the poorest
counties in Georgia.

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We're not talking about kind of poor,

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we're talking about this being
an extremely poor community.

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Clay County is underserved

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is the polite word for it.

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I'm the only provider in the county.

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I've been the only medical provider here

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for the last 13 years now.

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(solemn music)

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There was a hospital here in Clay County,

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it closed in the late 1980s.

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The closest regional hospitals
are 40 miles away in Alabama,

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or 60 miles in Georgia.

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It's a long ways to get
to medical care here.

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The county's about 3,000.

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It's about 60% Black, 40% White.

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The front streets are White,

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all on the highways and stuff,

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and then when you get back beyond that

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it's pretty much Black.

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It's kind of how it works.

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There was a tree that
fell down in October,

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and it's still there.

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This is all a Black street.

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We really don't know what's gonna happen.

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We know if we don't do something

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there's not gonna be
healthcare here real soon.

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And basically the whole model has been

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that nobody else had any responsibility

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for making sure that
there was healthcare here.

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The county didn't, the city didn't.

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The first year that we ranked worst

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in the Robert Wood
Johnson Health Rankings,

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I told the County Administrator

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that boy, at some point you
guys have gotta step up.

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If you want the healthcare to be here

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and improve you guys have gotta do this.

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I'll retire at some point,

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and unless there's some kind of structure,

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somebody has responsibility
for healthcare here,

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there won't be any healthcare here.

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(gentle music)

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Patricia. (knocking on door)

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Here we are.

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(door creaking)

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Hello!

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I thought you were probably looking at me.

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How are you?

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- I'm okay.

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- Just okay?

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- [Patricia] Yes, ma'am, I'm doing well.

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I've been in this bed going on 14 years.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] 14.

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- Yes, ma'am.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] Wow.

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- If I live to see this year it'll be 14.

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- But you'd rather stay here

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than move to a nursing home or something?

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- Yes, I would.

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- Why?

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- I worked in a nursing home,

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I know how they treat those people

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in the nursing home,

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and I don't like it.

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I would rather go home with the Lord

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than to go to the nursing home.

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If I don't feel sick,

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I'm in The Word,

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or I'm reading or just writing.

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I write about my thoughts,

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how I feel about being in this bed.

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People, you know...

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how you have so many friends when you up,

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but after you get down there's nobody.

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It's like everybody walks away from you.

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And I try my best to stay up,

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not to let this bed get to me.

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- What would you improve

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about this situation though if you could?

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- I think my situation is good.

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If I had someone to help
me get in the chair.

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- Where would you go?

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What would you do?

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- I'd ride around the neighborhood,

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and get to know the neighbors.

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I've been here a long time.

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I never wanted to have
to depend on no one,

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nobody but the Lord,

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we couldn't survive without Him.

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(gentle music)

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- I grew up in Remington, Indiana,

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which is small town in Indiana.

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My family is in the seed business,

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my father did well.

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I've been able to use
that background really

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for support since then.

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I like to think of it as
having just enough money

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to be dangerous.

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I eventually decided that
I really wasn't gonna

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be able to make an impact
with discovering new varieties

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of soybeans or whatever,

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so I moved to New York City.

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Across the street from me,

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there was a man living on the street,

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and I had just never seen
homeless people before,

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and I was so struck by that.

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And started volunteering at

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the New York City
Coalition for the Homeless.

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I was very taken by the
physicians who came.

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They really had an ability
to help people there,

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and so I went back to the idea of

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I'd like to go to medical school.

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(gentle music)

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Since I'd really come from a rural area

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I was very struck by that
there were many rural areas

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that were even more underserved

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than some of these poor
areas in the cities.

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So I literally went to the library,

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took out a map,

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and a book of statistics
looking for poor areas.

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And ended up relocating to
southwest Georgia, Clay County,

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which actually that year was considered

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the most medically underserved
county in the state.

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- Clay County Medical.

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- So many of the people out
here can't pay for care,

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so I volunteered.

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I'm a full time volunteer,

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and that's the only way this system works.

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I have some assets, family money,

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but they're about exhausted,

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so there has to be another plan

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to allow me to continue to volunteer here.

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So hey, how you doing?

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- [Michael] I'm all right.

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Same old, same old.

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- Same old?

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I know you were here a couple weeks ago,

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but you were saying you had just started

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in the flare, right?

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- Yeah, on Wednesday.

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- But you didn't wanna
come in before today?

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- I had to, like I said I had to wait

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until I get my payroll to come in.

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- Okay, honey, and of
course we're always happy

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to see you, if you need to come in,

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you just come on in, okay?

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And I mean that.

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- Okay.

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- Okay.

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So you don't feel any better?

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- Slightly,

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but the pain is still-

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- Stand up and let me see
where you're talking about.

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Take a few steps just
so I can kind of see.

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Yeah.

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Turn around.

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And that, your walk, that's
not that much different

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than how you always are, right?

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- Yeah.

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- How far can you turn
your neck to the side?

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- That's it right there,
almost like a motorcycle.

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- Basically it's just
cementing his spine in place,

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it doesn't have the flexibility

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that you normally would have,

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so he can't twist.

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Yeah, it's degenerative
disease of your spine.

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I notice you're kind of a sweaty guy.

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- Yeah.

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(both laughing)

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That's from carrying the
weight around all the time.

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- Yeah.

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I mean are you real
prone to sweating a lot?

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- Yes, ma'am.

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- Okay, so maybe.

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- From hopping.

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- Is it hot in here?

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- I said from hopping.

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- Oh, hopping.

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- [Nurse] How long do these
flares typically last for?

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- [Michael] About two to three months.

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Some days be worse than others,

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but there'll still be pain.

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Some days are bearable,
some days are unbearable.

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The unbearable days I just stay out.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] Have you
been going to work with this?

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- Oh, ever since I've been
working from '96 til now.

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- [Dr. Kinsell] Did you go ahead

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and apply for disability then?

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- They supposed to call

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and let me know what's the interview date.

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- Good, okay.

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- They say you gotta have no income,

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but how can you have no
income and have a house?

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- A place to stay.

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- Yeah.

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- And particularly because
the process is so long,

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it takes about two years

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from the time you apply for disability

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until you get it in most cases.

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So how are people supposed to live?

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- Exactly.

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- I mean some people are with
their family or something,

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and they can make it,

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but if you don't have that it's-

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- When you're by yourself it's rough.

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So you can't stay out,

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so you gotta go in pain,

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and there's only so
much the job gonna take

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about you staying out.

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- Yeah.

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- I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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- Okay.

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Okay, hun, good to see you.

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- I hope not to see you too soon.

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- [Nurse] I hope you feel better.

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- Thank y'all.

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Y'all have a good day.

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- [Nurse] You too.

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(gentle music)

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- Mercer has started
negotiations to use us

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as a model site for rural healthcare.

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And so the hope would be
that they would be able

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to partially subsidize us partly

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with doing our billing

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and that sort of thing,

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and maybe some cash.

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- This is Brandi at Dr. Kinsell's office.

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- I think Mercer is being a little naive

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by thinking it's just a billing issue.

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About a third of our patients
are on a sliding fee scale.

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I did agree to increase the
minimum sliding fee scale

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to $15 from $10 which is a
50% increase, it's noticeable.

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And it will go up pretty
quickly from the $15,

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and I'm sure that will

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discourage some patients from coming in.

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- You're such a great doctor.

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- And they were asking for all my data

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before we had any kind of agreement.

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And I go, no.

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Who the patients are.

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If you own that data then
you just send an announcement

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to all of them saying hey,
come to this other doctor

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down the road.

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I really don't think they would do that,

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but I don't completely trust them.

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Can't trust anybody completely,

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so I want everything in writing

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before we move much forward.

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Basically I'm giving them patients,

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but then they have to
agree to employee me.

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It wouldn't make any sense for me

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to give them all that,

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and then I not be there
three months from now.

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We're gonna be harder
because I'm very serious

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about this sliding fee scale.

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This is the old hospital.

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So we're gonna renovate that,

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and make it into the new clinic.

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And there'll be additional
services in there,

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mental health,

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and we're still negotiating

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what other services will be there.

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- Yeah, for sure.

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I mean I have spent all
the inheritance basically,

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and so I really can't continue

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to just stay out here for free forever.

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They are making
arrangements with the county

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to have that new space,

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I mean certainly it would be conceivable

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that they would just go ahead,

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and put a doctor in that space.

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I think they would be smart
enough not to do that,

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but that certainly is not inconceivable.

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- We are at what will be

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the Clay County Health Clinic.

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This is a wing of an old hospital

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here in Fort Gaines, Georgia,

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that had been not used
for many, many years.

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And we had a group of senators

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that were traveling around rural Georgia,

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primarily southwest Georgia,

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and they came here,

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and we had a huge community meeting.

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And one of the primary
emphases that we had

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is the need for sustainable
medical presence

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here in Clay County.

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And they took that information back,

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we were able to get funding
from One Georgia Authority.

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That's part of the money that was

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the old tobacco settlement money

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that was received by the state
of Georgia several years ago

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through some helpful negotiation

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with the owner of the facility,

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and the nursing home
that is in the remainder

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of the building, they saw fit

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to allow us to use part of
those funds for healthcare

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in our community.

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It'll be another bullet in
our economic development gun.

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When a retiree is looking
at a potential place

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to relocate there are two
things that they ask about.

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What are the taxes here and
what about the healthcare?

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And if you don't have a good story to tell

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on both of those they're
probably gonna move on

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somewhere else.

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If this didn't happen,

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we'd probably be without a doctor at all.

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- Let's go ahead and call
the meeting to order.

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And the update from Mercer,

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Dr. Kinsell and Mercer are
still negotiating on her salary.

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Charles will facilitate a meeting

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with Dr. Kinsell and Dr. Sumner at Mercer

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for further discussion.

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- I was just curious about

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what the board felt
would be the priorities

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for what should go in those spaces.

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But if this board is
the advisory committee

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for what happens with healthcare here,

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y'all may wanna weigh in

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on what you'd really like to see.

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- Have y'all considered mammograms?

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- We have.

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My vision for Mercer as a whole

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is if we're gonna do
several of these clinics,

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for our more expensive, more specialized

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diagnostic equipment it would be portable

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so we can eventually have
it come to each clinic.

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There is a company out of Columbus

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that has reached out to us

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that is wiling to bring mammography here

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in a mobile unit.

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- We have aged through two sets

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of mobile mammograms in this community,

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and they both have lost their grants,

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so they've stopped coming.

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But that was pretty well used,

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and absolutely is a need.

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- Is there any way possible

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to get some kind of pharmacy in there

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because just a lot of
people need that here.

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- Where Mercer can be most effective

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in partnering with Clay County

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is the core medical services,

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provide medical services to the community,

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and I think pharmacy
falls well within that.

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Pharmacies are very expensive to run.

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To run a full time pharmacy sometimes

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can be as expensive in just cash flow

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of $100,000 a month.

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It has to be there perpetually.

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There's always one thing that stands out

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as the biggest clinic need immediately,

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and I think that is time with provider.

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I think you're tapped out.

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Priority number one really has to be

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bringing in another provider,

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and getting us to a position

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where we can bring in
a nurse practitioner,

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making sure we've got
space for two providers,

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and then I think we move out from there.

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The other option would be to
do a community questionnaire,

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send it out to the community,

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and give them a list of services,

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and ask them maybe on
a scale of one to five

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or one to 10, where do these fall

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into what would be most
utilized by each household.

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- That's the kind of spirit of inclusivity

00:23:09.513 --> 00:23:11.431
that we all would like to have

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rather than us sitting around a table

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and deciding what we'd like to do.

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(gentle music)

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(gentle music continues)

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(phone buttons beeping)

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How's the smoking coming?

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- [Penny] Well, I still
don't have the Chantix

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because they will not
take the food stamp plan.

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- As your proof of income?

00:24:01.606 --> 00:24:02.441
- Yes.

00:24:02.441 --> 00:24:04.192
They said, I meant to bring you

00:24:04.192 --> 00:24:06.319
papers from the hospital so you could see.

00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:07.737
- Is there any other
kind of proof of income

00:24:07.737 --> 00:24:08.655
in the household?

00:24:08.655 --> 00:24:10.490
- There is no income.

00:24:10.490 --> 00:24:12.409
There is no proof of income.

00:24:12.409 --> 00:24:13.994
What I'm saying, the only thing we've got

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is the food stamps.

00:24:15.412 --> 00:24:16.663
- Yeah.

00:24:16.663 --> 00:24:19.791
And how much are your food
stamps for the family?

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- $321 a month.

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- For the two of you?

00:24:23.336 --> 00:24:24.171
- Yes.

00:24:24.171 --> 00:24:26.214
- Okay, so your breathing
is still kind of bad.

00:24:26.214 --> 00:24:28.967
- He did two x-rays at the hospital.

00:24:28.967 --> 00:24:29.801
- Uh-huh.

00:24:29.801 --> 00:24:32.345
- And said that my lungs
are severely damaged.

00:24:32.345 --> 00:24:33.180
- Mm-hmm.

00:24:33.180 --> 00:24:34.681
- It kind of was a wake up call for me

00:24:34.681 --> 00:24:37.100
because I had never
heard it put like that.

00:24:37.100 --> 00:24:38.894
- Okay, with the COPD.

00:24:38.894 --> 00:24:40.353
- It scared me bad.

00:24:40.353 --> 00:24:41.855
- How much are you smoking now?

00:24:41.855 --> 00:24:43.982
- I would say about
three quarters of a pack,

00:24:43.982 --> 00:24:46.359
which is a cut down by
a quarter of a pack,

00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:49.488
but it seems like when I'm trying to quit

00:24:49.488 --> 00:24:51.114
all I think about is smoking.

00:24:51.114 --> 00:24:52.532
- Sure, it's addictive.

00:24:52.532 --> 00:24:54.159
- Yeah.

00:24:54.159 --> 00:24:55.035
Geez.

00:24:55.035 --> 00:24:57.913
- I've got some nicotine in the closet,

00:24:57.913 --> 00:24:58.747
do you wanna try that?

00:24:58.747 --> 00:24:59.789
- I do.

00:24:59.789 --> 00:25:01.082
- Okay, let's do that.

00:25:01.082 --> 00:25:02.250
Let me show you how to do this.

00:25:02.250 --> 00:25:03.668
So the medicine is in here,

00:25:03.668 --> 00:25:05.629
there's a little spike in there

00:25:05.629 --> 00:25:07.589
that's got to soak in here.

00:25:07.589 --> 00:25:09.633
So you kind of line it up,

00:25:09.633 --> 00:25:12.052
and you really have got to,

00:25:12.052 --> 00:25:13.512
that's not far enough.

00:25:13.512 --> 00:25:16.223
You've gotta get it so
it's almost like a nickel

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is all that extends out.

00:25:18.350 --> 00:25:20.602
And then you gotta put
your mouth right on it,

00:25:20.602 --> 00:25:22.145
and press the gray button,

00:25:22.145 --> 00:25:23.772
and suck it in.

00:25:24.731 --> 00:25:26.900
So try that one, you gotta quit smoking.

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Yaaay...

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- I am working on that for sure.

00:25:29.945 --> 00:25:31.446
I know I need to.

00:25:31.446 --> 00:25:33.907
- Yeah, I know it's hard.

00:25:33.907 --> 00:25:34.991
- It's real hard.

00:25:34.991 --> 00:25:37.035
It's harder than anything I've ever quit.

00:25:40.038 --> 00:25:42.707
Like my mom always said,
that's my best friend.

00:25:44.543 --> 00:25:45.502
It is.

00:25:45.502 --> 00:25:46.336
- Really?

00:25:46.336 --> 00:25:49.339
- Yeah, I don't make friends
real easy, never have.

00:25:49.339 --> 00:25:50.882
I don't trust people that good.

00:25:53.510 --> 00:25:54.928
Besides, I've got three sisters,

00:25:54.928 --> 00:25:57.138
I don't need a lot of close friends.

00:25:57.138 --> 00:25:58.265
- Are you close with your sisters?

00:25:58.265 --> 00:25:59.099
- Very.

00:25:59.099 --> 00:25:59.933
- Okay.

00:26:03.311 --> 00:26:05.897
(gentle music)

00:26:07.524 --> 00:26:08.650
- [Penny] I don't have insurance,

00:26:08.650 --> 00:26:10.694
and I don't have the
money to go to a doctor,

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:14.990
so coming here is the only way

00:26:14.990 --> 00:26:16.408
that I would get medical treatment,

00:26:16.408 --> 00:26:19.160
unless I go to the emergency
room every other day.

00:26:20.036 --> 00:26:22.622
(gentle music)

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- I collect solar animated figures.

00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:45.604
It'll stop in a minute.

00:26:47.355 --> 00:26:49.566
But I just thought they were cute.

00:26:49.566 --> 00:26:52.235
And then once you start getting 'em

00:26:52.235 --> 00:26:53.903
every time you see one
you get another one.

00:26:53.903 --> 00:26:56.406
They start dying after a while,

00:26:56.406 --> 00:26:59.618
and so I actually threw a fair number away

00:27:02.537 --> 00:27:04.914
when we were decluttering last time.

00:27:07.792 --> 00:27:10.712
When we closed up my mom's house,

00:27:10.712 --> 00:27:13.673
we took a trailer up there.

00:27:13.673 --> 00:27:18.678
This was my grandfather's rocker,

00:27:19.554 --> 00:27:21.806
and I think it probably predates him.

00:27:21.806 --> 00:27:24.851
He died young so I never met him.

00:27:24.851 --> 00:27:26.811
My grandfather was one of the first

00:27:26.811 --> 00:27:31.358
hybrid seed corn producers in Indiana,

00:27:31.358 --> 00:27:35.195
and my father was very involved in that.

00:27:35.195 --> 00:27:37.614
My grandfather was poor,

00:27:37.614 --> 00:27:41.284
but he and my father
created wealth basically.

00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:45.205
And I've dissolved it all.

00:27:46.247 --> 00:27:50.418
All these oil paintings were by

00:27:50.418 --> 00:27:51.670
both my grandmothers.

00:27:51.670 --> 00:27:54.506
It was very fashionable
for ladies that age

00:27:54.506 --> 00:27:57.175
to paint landscapes.

00:27:58.385 --> 00:28:01.721
This is the one I like the
best from Grandma Gauss.

00:28:03.390 --> 00:28:04.224
It's moody.

00:28:06.685 --> 00:28:10.271
'Cause I don't do stairs well,

00:28:10.271 --> 00:28:12.732
I have a little bit of a balance problem,

00:28:15.235 --> 00:28:17.278
and that's where the roof is leaking,

00:28:17.278 --> 00:28:19.447
so they are going to deal with that.

00:28:20.448 --> 00:28:23.243
Robert will probably move
here when he retires,

00:28:23.243 --> 00:28:25.161
maybe about five years,

00:28:25.161 --> 00:28:27.580
so all this space can be his.

00:28:30.125 --> 00:28:34.254
- Robert Cooke, he runs
a nonprofit in Cordele.

00:28:34.254 --> 00:28:36.339
He'll continue to live over there

00:28:36.339 --> 00:28:38.550
for probably several years,

00:28:40.176 --> 00:28:43.346
but I've cleared out a drawer for him.

00:28:46.891 --> 00:28:50.437
- I didn't get really coupled
while I was in New York City,

00:28:50.437 --> 00:28:51.896
so by the time I came down here,

00:28:51.896 --> 00:28:54.065
which was getting close to
the end of my fertility,

00:28:54.065 --> 00:28:55.608
you figure if you don't find somebody

00:28:55.608 --> 00:28:57.360
in a city of seven million people

00:28:58.611 --> 00:28:59.487
get used to it.

00:29:00.947 --> 00:29:03.491
I don't know that I'd be
that great of a parent.

00:29:03.491 --> 00:29:06.161
I just always had other stuff to do.

00:29:08.037 --> 00:29:09.789
This is the Christmas room,

00:29:09.789 --> 00:29:12.167
and I used to decorate my yard,

00:29:12.167 --> 00:29:16.588
and a parsonage, my church's
parsonage across the street,

00:29:16.588 --> 00:29:19.048
so I used to decorate
it and then the office.

00:29:21.634 --> 00:29:22.969
You know, it's just too much work.

00:29:26.514 --> 00:29:29.934
This is from the women's march

00:29:29.934 --> 00:29:32.103
after Trump was inaugurated.

00:29:33.646 --> 00:29:35.190
The closet is your Fourth of,

00:29:35.190 --> 00:29:37.400
it's your minor holidays, Fourth of July,

00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.612
Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day and Easter.

00:29:42.447 --> 00:29:44.115
And then we get into Halloween.

00:29:44.115 --> 00:29:47.368
Again, a fair amount of
this is already gone.

00:29:47.368 --> 00:29:49.454
We used to have Halloween in the house,

00:29:49.454 --> 00:29:50.789
where the whole house,

00:29:50.789 --> 00:29:52.207
downstairs part of the house

00:29:52.207 --> 00:29:53.792
was the haunted house.

00:29:53.792 --> 00:29:56.461
And the year when the child fell

00:29:56.461 --> 00:29:58.046
and broke his arm I think

00:29:58.046 --> 00:30:00.465
was the last time I really did that.

00:30:05.011 --> 00:30:07.222
And so this is where a
lot of money went to.

00:30:13.603 --> 00:30:16.189
(gentle music)

00:30:18.566 --> 00:30:19.692
When I first came here,

00:30:19.692 --> 00:30:22.570
I believe I was referred to as DYB,

00:30:22.570 --> 00:30:24.405
which stands for Damn Yankee Bitch.

00:30:27.325 --> 00:30:30.078
I had short hair, I wasn't married,

00:30:30.078 --> 00:30:32.455
everyone assumed I was homosexual.

00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:36.668
I'm not from here,

00:30:36.668 --> 00:30:39.170
and honestly after 23 years here

00:30:39.170 --> 00:30:40.672
that still makes a difference.

00:30:41.548 --> 00:30:43.675
(gentle music)

00:30:43.675 --> 00:30:45.552
Also complicating that is because

00:30:45.552 --> 00:30:48.137
there was still the one
physician who was here

00:30:48.137 --> 00:30:49.639
who also happened to be the mayor,

00:30:49.639 --> 00:30:52.058
and he really didn't want
another doctor in town.

00:30:54.310 --> 00:30:56.354
A lot of people supported me

00:30:56.354 --> 00:30:59.190
who didn't have to stick their neck out,

00:30:59.190 --> 00:31:03.278
because, again, the mayor's
people would fight them on it.

00:31:06.072 --> 00:31:08.241
But because of all those experiences

00:31:08.241 --> 00:31:09.951
is why you can't just up

00:31:09.951 --> 00:31:11.911
and walk away from something like this.

00:31:13.788 --> 00:31:16.374
(gentle music)

00:31:32.891 --> 00:31:36.311
(gentle music continues)

00:32:01.628 --> 00:32:02.462
(indistinct)

00:32:02.462 --> 00:32:04.339
- You're so well dressed.

00:32:04.339 --> 00:32:06.591
You're well dressed.

00:32:06.591 --> 00:32:09.677
This is Brad Lian, he's the,

00:32:09.677 --> 00:32:12.263
Dr. Lian is with Mercer.

00:32:12.263 --> 00:32:17.060
This is Ronald Walker,
this is Dr. Lian, this is-

00:32:17.060 --> 00:32:19.145
- How you doing sir?

00:32:19.145 --> 00:32:20.355
- This is a good survey.

00:32:20.355 --> 00:32:21.940
We're trying to help the community,

00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:23.441
so we have every right to feel confident

00:32:23.441 --> 00:32:24.984
and good about doing the survey,

00:32:24.984 --> 00:32:27.320
we're not asking for money
or something like that.

00:32:27.320 --> 00:32:28.529
A clinic is important.

00:32:28.529 --> 00:32:30.198
10 minutes can make a big difference.

00:32:30.198 --> 00:32:32.617
If you have a big emergency

00:32:32.617 --> 00:32:33.451
or any,

00:32:33.451 --> 00:32:34.285
or not even an emergency,

00:32:34.285 --> 00:32:37.372
it's nice to have a medical
facility in your town.

00:32:37.372 --> 00:32:39.290
But, doesn't it also make sense

00:32:39.290 --> 00:32:41.084
to ask the people what
they want in the clinic?

00:32:41.084 --> 00:32:41.918
- Absolutely.

00:32:41.918 --> 00:32:42.961
- And that's what we're doing.

00:32:42.961 --> 00:32:44.504
What we're gonna try to do

00:32:44.504 --> 00:32:46.047
is break up the city into four

00:32:46.047 --> 00:32:47.882
or five different sectors,

00:32:47.882 --> 00:32:50.677
and then you guys go to this section,

00:32:50.677 --> 00:32:52.053
you guys go to this section,

00:32:52.053 --> 00:32:55.974
and I have a list of streets kind of.

00:32:55.974 --> 00:32:56.808
- [Woman] Where's McKinley,

00:32:56.808 --> 00:32:58.476
okay, right here on McKinley Academy

00:32:58.476 --> 00:33:02.021
there's eight duplexes, or four,

00:33:02.021 --> 00:33:03.982
there's eight residences there.

00:33:03.982 --> 00:33:07.318
- Again, we're over sampling low income.

00:33:07.318 --> 00:33:08.736
- [Woman] Right.

00:33:08.736 --> 00:33:10.405
We're not doing door to door,

00:33:10.405 --> 00:33:12.281
we're doing every other one.

00:33:12.281 --> 00:33:13.241
- But we're still over,

00:33:13.241 --> 00:33:15.535
by picking those places to focus on

00:33:15.535 --> 00:33:17.912
we're oversampling poverty.

00:33:17.912 --> 00:33:19.747
- Do you know this area?

00:33:19.747 --> 00:33:20.999
Do you know this area?

00:33:20.999 --> 00:33:22.458
- I know all this area
to tell you the truth,

00:33:22.458 --> 00:33:24.085
I used to stay down here

00:33:24.085 --> 00:33:25.545
in the early part.

00:33:25.545 --> 00:33:27.088
before I moved in the country.

00:33:30.008 --> 00:33:32.635
- Have you been to Dr. Kinsell's office?

00:33:32.635 --> 00:33:33.553
- Mm-hmm.

00:33:33.553 --> 00:33:35.638
- How often do you guys go there?

00:33:35.638 --> 00:33:36.472
Once a year?

00:33:36.472 --> 00:33:39.726
- Well my mom, she goes once a month.

00:33:39.726 --> 00:33:40.727
- Oh, wow.

00:33:40.727 --> 00:33:41.602
- Mm-hmm.

00:33:41.602 --> 00:33:42.437
- So frequently then.

00:33:42.437 --> 00:33:43.396
- She disabled.

00:33:43.396 --> 00:33:45.106
- What type of insurance do you have?

00:33:45.106 --> 00:33:47.358
- I don't have any, I have to pay.

00:33:47.358 --> 00:33:48.151
- Okay.

00:33:48.151 --> 00:33:49.444
- But my mom, she have
Medicare and Medicaid.

00:33:49.444 --> 00:33:50.361
- Okay.

00:33:50.361 --> 00:33:51.904
How about diabetes education,

00:33:52.739 --> 00:33:53.656
how important would that be?

00:33:53.656 --> 00:33:55.616
- It's very important, five.

00:33:55.616 --> 00:33:57.160
My mom, she has diabetes.

00:34:03.583 --> 00:34:06.502
- Do you currently have health insurance?

00:34:06.502 --> 00:34:08.212
- Yes, I have Medicare.

00:34:08.212 --> 00:34:10.965
- [Dr. Lian] Okay, does
everybody in the household-

00:34:12.258 --> 00:34:13.134
- No.

00:34:13.134 --> 00:34:14.218
- [Dr. Lian] Not everybody has it?

00:34:14.218 --> 00:34:15.344
- He don't have insurance.

00:34:15.344 --> 00:34:16.304
- Okay.

00:34:16.304 --> 00:34:19.307
How important would these
services be in your opinion.

00:34:19.307 --> 00:34:20.558
Smoking cessation,

00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:23.936
like education to show
people how to stop smoking

00:34:23.936 --> 00:34:24.854
and stuff like that?

00:34:24.854 --> 00:34:27.231
So would that be not
important, do you think,

00:34:27.231 --> 00:34:28.274
or would that be very important?

00:34:28.274 --> 00:34:29.108
- It would be very important

00:34:29.108 --> 00:34:29.984
'cause I'm a smoker.

00:34:29.984 --> 00:34:32.612
- [Dr. Lian] What about
behavioral health issues,

00:34:32.612 --> 00:34:35.364
like a psychologist or psychiatrist?

00:34:35.364 --> 00:34:39.827
- Yeah, because I take
mental medicine, yeah, five.

00:34:39.827 --> 00:34:40.661
- Okay.

00:34:40.661 --> 00:34:42.872
What about a local pharmacy?

00:34:42.872 --> 00:34:44.665
- A five.

00:34:44.665 --> 00:34:47.210
- It sounds like it might
be a six on that one, huh?

00:34:47.210 --> 00:34:48.044
- Yes.

00:34:48.044 --> 00:34:49.629
- What about drug abuse treatment?

00:34:49.629 --> 00:34:51.255
- Oh, five.

00:34:51.255 --> 00:34:52.048
- Okay.

00:34:52.048 --> 00:34:54.133
Do you have any specialists you see

00:34:54.133 --> 00:34:55.927
once in a while, like a heart specialist?

00:34:55.927 --> 00:35:00.723
- I see a counselor for substance abuse.

00:35:00.723 --> 00:35:01.557
- Okay.

00:35:06.729 --> 00:35:08.272
How would you rate the attentiveness

00:35:08.272 --> 00:35:11.526
and responsiveness or
promptness of the staff to you?

00:35:13.361 --> 00:35:15.530
- [Rosie] I mean I won't really complain,

00:35:15.530 --> 00:35:17.615
anything's better than nothing.

00:35:17.615 --> 00:35:19.158
- Yeah, absolutely.

00:35:19.158 --> 00:35:22.495
- Even if I'm not one
that will just attend

00:35:22.495 --> 00:35:24.413
or go to the health clinic

00:35:24.413 --> 00:35:25.790
or whatever the situation is,

00:35:25.790 --> 00:35:28.709
I would love for my
community to have better.

00:35:28.709 --> 00:35:31.587
We have, it has not been
easy in this community.

00:35:31.587 --> 00:35:33.172
I was born and raised here.

00:35:33.172 --> 00:35:34.006
- [Dr. Lian] Really?

00:35:34.006 --> 00:35:34.841
- Yeah.

00:35:34.841 --> 00:35:36.634
And this is such a rural community.

00:35:36.634 --> 00:35:40.221
There's a lot of things
that we were so deprived of,

00:35:40.221 --> 00:35:42.014
that's why so many people left

00:35:42.014 --> 00:35:45.852
and went north or somewhere
so they could have jobs

00:35:45.852 --> 00:35:46.853
and medical facility.

00:35:46.853 --> 00:35:48.896
A lot of people wanna move back here,

00:35:48.896 --> 00:35:52.441
they say no, the closest
hospital is Dothan,

00:35:52.441 --> 00:35:53.276
Eufala

00:35:53.276 --> 00:35:54.819
and they didn't wanna come back because

00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:56.487
they got medical issues,

00:35:56.487 --> 00:35:58.447
and they was afraid to come back,

00:35:58.447 --> 00:36:00.116
'cause they thought they might not be able

00:36:00.116 --> 00:36:02.869
to get to some medical facilities in time.

00:36:02.869 --> 00:36:05.329
This town here needs everything,

00:36:05.329 --> 00:36:07.540
or it needs to be closed completely down.

00:36:07.540 --> 00:36:09.333
It's just keeping it real.

00:36:09.333 --> 00:36:11.085
It's all or none.

00:36:11.085 --> 00:36:15.339
If it don't get no
better just shut it down,

00:36:15.339 --> 00:36:17.216
because if it never happens like that

00:36:17.216 --> 00:36:19.051
we will stay here and struggle forever.

00:36:19.051 --> 00:36:22.555
So it's still the slavery mentality here.

00:36:22.555 --> 00:36:25.224
My mother passed about three years ago,

00:36:25.224 --> 00:36:27.185
and this is what she
told me on her dying bed,

00:36:27.185 --> 00:36:29.854
"Whatever you do get up out of here."

00:36:29.854 --> 00:36:32.440
Get up out of this place.

00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:36.110
'Cause she knew I was only
here to really help her.

00:36:36.110 --> 00:36:39.322
So I'm thinking on taking
my mother's advice,

00:36:39.322 --> 00:36:41.991
get the heck up outta here while I can.

00:36:41.991 --> 00:36:43.576
- [Cameraman] What keeps
you here right now?

00:36:43.576 --> 00:36:45.536
- Well, just trying to
get things together.

00:36:45.536 --> 00:36:47.330
And asking God to help me,

00:36:47.330 --> 00:36:49.582
to give me guidance and direction,

00:36:49.582 --> 00:36:51.167
asking which way to go,

00:36:51.167 --> 00:36:53.836
'cause I don't wanna swap
the devil for the witch.

00:36:53.836 --> 00:36:56.422
See you, it could be bad here,

00:36:56.422 --> 00:36:59.133
but if I go somewhere else
it could be even worse.

00:36:59.133 --> 00:37:01.677
So I'm asking, "God send me somewhere

00:37:01.677 --> 00:37:04.430
"that is gonna be better not worse."

00:37:04.430 --> 00:37:06.224
But I'm grateful and I'm thankful.

00:37:06.224 --> 00:37:07.850
I'm not in no depression

00:37:07.850 --> 00:37:10.019
where I'm thinking about
leaping over nowhere,

00:37:10.019 --> 00:37:11.979
I'm just holding, I'm riding it on out.

00:37:11.979 --> 00:37:14.023
I'm riding the storm on out.

00:37:14.023 --> 00:37:14.857
- [Dr. Lian] Alright.

00:37:14.857 --> 00:37:15.983
Hey, thanks again for your time.

00:37:15.983 --> 00:37:17.818
- [Rosie] All right, you so very welcome.

00:37:17.818 --> 00:37:18.694
Y'all take care.

00:37:18.694 --> 00:37:19.528
- [Dr. Lian] Enjoy the-

00:37:19.528 --> 00:37:23.074
- [Rosie] I wish you
well with the project.

00:38:03.030 --> 00:38:05.283
- Again, you are doing great,

00:38:05.283 --> 00:38:09.036
you came back at two
weeks at your appointment

00:38:09.036 --> 00:38:11.539
'cause your sugar was crazy last time.

00:38:11.539 --> 00:38:12.540
- [Calvin] Yes ma'am.

00:38:12.540 --> 00:38:14.583
- And you have done such a
good job of bringing it down.

00:38:14.583 --> 00:38:17.670
Now you were talking about
you drinking so much soda,

00:38:17.670 --> 00:38:19.005
are you doing better with that?

00:38:19.005 --> 00:38:20.256
- Yes ma'am.

00:38:20.256 --> 00:38:22.133
- How much you drinking now?

00:38:22.133 --> 00:38:23.592
- I drink diet soda.

00:38:23.592 --> 00:38:25.011
- You went to diet soda?

00:38:25.011 --> 00:38:26.137
- Yeah.

00:38:26.137 --> 00:38:27.346
- Bless your heart.

00:38:27.346 --> 00:38:28.889
But you gained 12 pounds.

00:38:28.889 --> 00:38:30.141
That's probably 'cause you're

00:38:30.141 --> 00:38:32.810
just not so sick from
your sugar being so high.

00:38:32.810 --> 00:38:33.686
- Yes ma'am.

00:38:33.686 --> 00:38:35.604
- I bet you feel better too, don't you?

00:38:35.604 --> 00:38:37.356
- I feel much better.

00:38:40.401 --> 00:38:45.323
- So I'm gonna order
you one more medicine.

00:38:45.323 --> 00:38:46.866
You know, someplace that be good for you

00:38:46.866 --> 00:38:48.117
to get your pills from

00:38:50.745 --> 00:38:51.579
these people.

00:38:52.913 --> 00:38:55.666
They'll send you pills for free.

00:38:55.666 --> 00:38:58.669
Now, do you use the computer much?

00:38:58.669 --> 00:38:59.503
- [Patient] No ma'am.

00:38:59.503 --> 00:39:00.338
- Okay.

00:39:03.174 --> 00:39:04.425
Your girlfriend was here last time,

00:39:04.425 --> 00:39:06.886
is she good with a computer?

00:39:06.886 --> 00:39:09.138
- [Calvin] Yeah, I
think my sister had one.

00:39:09.138 --> 00:39:09.972
- Okay.

00:39:09.972 --> 00:39:11.891
Or they use it on their phone?

00:39:11.891 --> 00:39:13.225
- I think so.

00:39:13.225 --> 00:39:14.143
- Okay.

00:39:14.143 --> 00:39:15.186
- [Telephone Prompt] If
you are a new patient

00:39:15.186 --> 00:39:18.064
and need to register, press one.

00:39:18.064 --> 00:39:20.149
If you are a current...

00:39:20.149 --> 00:39:22.735
- And nobody has an email then.

00:39:22.735 --> 00:39:23.611
- No.

00:39:23.611 --> 00:39:25.529
- Okay.

00:39:25.529 --> 00:39:26.864
This is Dr. Kinsell,

00:39:26.864 --> 00:39:30.242
K-I-N-S-E-L-L, at Clay
County Medical Center.

00:39:30.242 --> 00:39:31.077
Medical Center.

00:39:31.077 --> 00:39:32.787
So many of our patients don't have emails

00:39:32.787 --> 00:39:35.206
so we can't register email,

00:39:35.206 --> 00:39:37.708
and it won't take the form without that.

00:39:37.708 --> 00:39:39.460
Can you tell them they said

00:39:39.460 --> 00:39:43.589
they would send us faxable forms down,

00:39:43.589 --> 00:39:45.049
said that other day.

00:39:46.926 --> 00:39:48.344
- That was a doctor, yes ma'am.

00:39:48.344 --> 00:39:50.721
Like she said he doesn't
have an email address.

00:39:52.348 --> 00:39:53.265
- What they're gonna do

00:39:53.265 --> 00:39:57.019
is they're gonna send you
three months of this one

00:39:57.019 --> 00:39:59.105
and this one and the two new ones,

00:39:59.105 --> 00:40:02.608
and then they're gonna
send you a bill for $6

00:40:02.608 --> 00:40:03.526
for the first time,

00:40:03.526 --> 00:40:06.487
and then you can send him a
money order or something back

00:40:06.487 --> 00:40:08.781
so it does work out quite a bit cheaper.

00:40:08.781 --> 00:40:11.283
So we can make you an
appointment back next month,

00:40:11.283 --> 00:40:12.535
and then if you keep doing so good,

00:40:12.535 --> 00:40:14.745
we'll make it like every three
months or something. Okay.

00:40:14.745 --> 00:40:15.579
Okay?

00:40:15.579 --> 00:40:17.039
- Okay.

00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:18.249
- You've done your job,

00:40:18.249 --> 00:40:21.043
now just figure out how to
use the machine so you can...

00:40:22.002 --> 00:40:22.962
If you can figure it out,

00:40:22.962 --> 00:40:25.089
if you can check it maybe once a day.

00:40:26.298 --> 00:40:30.594
(gentle music)

00:40:35.641 --> 00:40:38.477
Well, we're still talking with Mercer.

00:40:41.147 --> 00:40:45.860
They seem to have changed
their plans for this clinic.

00:40:48.529 --> 00:40:50.573
The plan was always that they would

00:40:50.573 --> 00:40:53.159
take care of the poor
people who live here.

00:40:54.410 --> 00:40:56.912
There was talk about a
minimum sliding fee schedule

00:40:56.912 --> 00:41:00.124
starting at $15 but that no
one would be turned away.

00:41:02.585 --> 00:41:05.713
They kind of questioned
that we needed that.

00:41:11.093 --> 00:41:13.137
I think we've resolved that,

00:41:13.137 --> 00:41:16.640
but it just makes no sense for healthcare

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:18.350
to be open in Clay County

00:41:18.350 --> 00:41:20.603
if we can't see all the
people who are here.

00:41:20.603 --> 00:41:22.313
And of course that's
the reason why I'm here,

00:41:22.313 --> 00:41:24.773
and if I can't do that I won't stay here.

00:41:28.777 --> 00:41:30.863
- [Jenna] Hot dog.

00:41:30.863 --> 00:41:31.989
- I certainly hope

00:41:31.989 --> 00:41:34.241
and expect things will
still work out with them,

00:41:34.241 --> 00:41:35.951
I'm not sure in what manner.

00:41:37.786 --> 00:41:40.539
- Our walk-in's are from 7:30 to 10 today.

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:43.792
- I haven't seen you in,
gosh, almost two years.

00:41:43.792 --> 00:41:46.086
Okay, so you've been going to school?

00:41:46.086 --> 00:41:49.256
- School and online classes now.

00:41:49.256 --> 00:41:50.591
- [Dr. Kinsell] You're online now?

00:41:50.591 --> 00:41:52.718
- [Javon] Yes, three online classes.

00:41:52.718 --> 00:41:53.552
- [Dr. Kinsell] How's that going?

00:41:53.552 --> 00:41:54.512
- I'm doing good.

00:41:54.512 --> 00:41:56.805
I got all A's and B's for now.

00:41:56.805 --> 00:41:59.058
- So your major would be computers then?

00:41:59.058 --> 00:41:59.934
- [Javon] Yeah.

00:41:59.934 --> 00:42:00.809
- Okay.

00:42:00.809 --> 00:42:02.353
- [Javon] Yes ma'am.

00:42:02.353 --> 00:42:03.854
(Dr. Kinsell laughing)

00:42:03.854 --> 00:42:04.980
- [Kemble] So what's wrong with you?

00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:06.899
What you don't do at night?

00:42:06.899 --> 00:42:08.484
- I can't sleep.

00:42:08.484 --> 00:42:10.152
- [Kemble] And I know I hear him at three

00:42:10.152 --> 00:42:12.071
4:00 in the morning.

00:42:12.071 --> 00:42:13.614
- [Javon] That's the TV.

00:42:13.614 --> 00:42:15.449
- No, I heard you.

00:42:15.449 --> 00:42:16.909
That was you singing.

00:42:16.909 --> 00:42:18.327
You be making noise and stuff.

00:42:18.327 --> 00:42:19.745
- I was a little singing.

00:42:19.745 --> 00:42:23.624
- We do think he has sleep
apnea that's not treated,

00:42:23.624 --> 00:42:26.877
if you make him more drowsy
that could actually be

00:42:26.877 --> 00:42:29.296
kind of dangerous 'cause the snoring

00:42:29.296 --> 00:42:32.174
is kind of him waking
up a little bit almost.

00:42:32.174 --> 00:42:34.927
And if he's more drugged out

00:42:34.927 --> 00:42:36.470
he wouldn't be able to wake up as much.

00:42:36.470 --> 00:42:40.015
So if he's ready to go
ahead and do a sleep study,

00:42:40.015 --> 00:42:42.935
that would be real important
to go ahead and do.

00:42:42.935 --> 00:42:44.436
- [Kemble] I need one too.

00:42:44.436 --> 00:42:45.646
- [Dr. Kinsell] Okay.

00:42:45.646 --> 00:42:47.815
- If we could get the
same night would be great.

00:42:47.815 --> 00:42:49.733
'Cause I have an appointment
for a sleep study,

00:42:49.733 --> 00:42:51.735
but it's in Tifton.

00:42:51.735 --> 00:42:53.737
- [Dr. Kinsell] So you don't
wanna do the one in Tifton?

00:42:53.737 --> 00:42:55.948
- No, because I don't have anybody,

00:42:55.948 --> 00:42:58.534
140 miles, I don't think
I'm gonna go there.

00:42:58.534 --> 00:42:59.994
- Yeah.

00:42:59.994 --> 00:43:04.248
Well it might be 120 miles
to Albany round trip.

00:43:04.248 --> 00:43:07.418
- Yeah, but that's one way to Tifton.

00:43:07.418 --> 00:43:08.752
- Okay.

00:43:08.752 --> 00:43:11.213
- Medicare, that's what
they do for transportation,

00:43:11.213 --> 00:43:14.842
you can only get 12 trips
a year with Medicare.

00:43:14.842 --> 00:43:17.761
'Cause I was trying to get
them to take me to Tifton

00:43:17.761 --> 00:43:19.888
from 512 North Washington,

00:43:19.888 --> 00:43:22.349
and I asked for them to take me to Tifton,

00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:24.518
and she said she couldn't 'cause it was

00:43:24.518 --> 00:43:26.687
over 60 miles one way.

00:43:26.687 --> 00:43:28.480
- [Dr. Kinsell] Okay.

00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:31.734
- I also want my Ambien
so I can go to sleep,

00:43:31.734 --> 00:43:33.652
so I won't be up when he...

00:43:33.652 --> 00:43:35.738
Well he'll be asleep now.

00:43:36.822 --> 00:43:38.782
- And, again, we worry about doing that

00:43:38.782 --> 00:43:41.243
because if you do have sleep apnea,

00:43:41.243 --> 00:43:43.621
if you sleep harder you
may forget to wake up.

00:43:44.872 --> 00:43:47.082
- Oh believe me my
bladder's not gonna let me

00:43:47.082 --> 00:43:48.250
forget to wake up.

00:43:48.250 --> 00:43:51.795
- Well it only takes about
four minutes to be a problem.

00:43:51.795 --> 00:43:53.756
I know you've tolerated it before

00:43:53.756 --> 00:43:55.591
but it is a worry.

00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:57.968
Okay?

00:43:57.968 --> 00:43:58.802
- Okay.

00:43:59.678 --> 00:44:02.640
- All right, so take that out front.

00:44:02.640 --> 00:44:04.099
Good to see you though.

00:44:04.099 --> 00:44:04.933
- Good to see you too.

00:44:04.933 --> 00:44:06.143
- And Javon, real proud of you.

00:44:06.143 --> 00:44:07.019
- [Javon] Thank you.

00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:08.270
- Real proud of you.

00:44:08.270 --> 00:44:10.856
(gentle music)

00:44:12.858 --> 00:44:13.984
- [Kemble] We have to go out of town

00:44:13.984 --> 00:44:16.403
for every other doctor.

00:44:16.403 --> 00:44:18.822
Like we was talking about the dentist,

00:44:18.822 --> 00:44:21.075
when we actually had a dentist right here,

00:44:21.075 --> 00:44:24.453
and they turned the dentist
office into a liquor store.

00:44:25.537 --> 00:44:28.832
(gentle music continues)

00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:50.938
- Mercer has told me from the beginning

00:44:50.938 --> 00:44:52.439
that they would hire me,

00:44:52.439 --> 00:44:54.149
although at a very low salary.

00:44:56.902 --> 00:44:58.904
And then they literally came down,

00:44:58.904 --> 00:45:02.866
and signed the agreement to get the lease

00:45:02.866 --> 00:45:05.369
on the building that's being renovated,

00:45:05.369 --> 00:45:06.286
and drove over here,

00:45:06.286 --> 00:45:09.206
and told me that they
decided not to hire me.

00:45:10.332 --> 00:45:12.918
(gentle music)

00:45:14.211 --> 00:45:17.256
I was completely devastated.

00:45:19.591 --> 00:45:21.969
Could not function.

00:45:24.805 --> 00:45:27.015
I think really it has more to do with

00:45:27.015 --> 00:45:30.185
they do not want to
honor their commitments,

00:45:30.185 --> 00:45:31.311
their repeated commitments

00:45:31.311 --> 00:45:33.021
to offer affordable care here.

00:45:37.985 --> 00:45:39.027
When they open the clinic,

00:45:39.027 --> 00:45:40.654
I think they're primarily expecting

00:45:40.654 --> 00:45:42.823
people who have insurance.

00:45:45.784 --> 00:45:48.746
And that kind of makes
sense except for the fact

00:45:48.746 --> 00:45:49.830
that Clay is one of

00:45:49.830 --> 00:45:53.041
the top five uninsured
counties in Georgia,

00:45:53.041 --> 00:45:55.043
one of the poorest counties in Georgia,

00:45:55.043 --> 00:45:57.171
and has the worst health
status in Georgia.

00:46:01.175 --> 00:46:03.385
I couldn't envision at first

00:46:03.385 --> 00:46:05.888
even being able to stay open here

00:46:05.888 --> 00:46:08.223
'cause I assume they'll
take some patients,

00:46:08.223 --> 00:46:10.476
but I'm gonna stay open.

00:46:12.227 --> 00:46:16.940
I can't abandon my individual patients,

00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:18.400
knowing that they're not gonna

00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:20.152
get the care that they need.

00:46:21.904 --> 00:46:24.823
And so I can't leave.

00:46:27.701 --> 00:46:32.623
You can't just walk away.

00:46:32.623 --> 00:46:33.957
- Have a good day now, take care now.

00:46:33.957 --> 00:46:35.000
- You too.

00:46:36.126 --> 00:46:38.712
(gentle music)

00:46:58.941 --> 00:47:01.693
(birds chirping)

00:47:14.790 --> 00:47:16.166
I just love to sit here,

00:47:16.166 --> 00:47:17.835
and look up at the...

00:47:17.835 --> 00:47:21.255
During the COVID the leaves
were just starting to come out,

00:47:21.255 --> 00:47:22.297
it's really...

00:47:22.297 --> 00:47:25.551
(phone ringing)

00:47:25.551 --> 00:47:27.135
This is Dr. Kinsell,

00:47:27.135 --> 00:47:29.221
I'm sorry I'm calling you late.

00:47:29.221 --> 00:47:31.306
What's going on with you?

00:47:31.306 --> 00:47:33.559
Did your wife end up with a virus?

00:47:33.559 --> 00:47:35.853
- [Fredrick, On Phone] Yeah,
she end up with the virus.

00:47:35.853 --> 00:47:38.063
- Oh my word, how is she now?

00:47:38.063 --> 00:47:39.606
- [Fredrick] She's fine.

00:47:39.606 --> 00:47:41.900
She went back to work
about three weeks ago,

00:47:41.900 --> 00:47:43.443
and I did too.

00:47:43.443 --> 00:47:44.486
- But you never caught it?

00:47:44.486 --> 00:47:45.404
- [Fredrick] I never caught it.

00:47:45.404 --> 00:47:46.864
If I had it, I didn't know it,

00:47:46.864 --> 00:47:49.157
'cause I didn't have the first symptom.

00:47:49.157 --> 00:47:51.785
- How do you feel otherwise?

00:47:51.785 --> 00:47:52.786
- [Fredrick] Sugar's doing good.

00:47:52.786 --> 00:47:54.288
Last time I spoke with you,

00:47:54.288 --> 00:47:56.039
I had got on this diet,

00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:59.418
and I lost about 25 pounds.

00:47:59.418 --> 00:48:01.837
- [Dr. Kinsell] Have
you kept the weight off?

00:48:01.837 --> 00:48:03.922
- [Fredrick] No, I done gained it back.

00:48:03.922 --> 00:48:05.299
- Huh.

00:48:05.299 --> 00:48:09.303
Would you be able to come
over to the office tomorrow?

00:48:09.303 --> 00:48:12.014
COVID still is kind of
really going around,

00:48:12.014 --> 00:48:14.099
we're getting a lot of calls
in Clay County this week,

00:48:14.099 --> 00:48:18.228
so that's why we're not
just opening the doors,

00:48:18.228 --> 00:48:20.731
but I'll have the nurse
call you in tomorrow,

00:48:20.731 --> 00:48:23.317
'cause I definitely wanna
check your sugar again.

00:48:23.317 --> 00:48:24.651
- [Man On Phone] Okay, that'll work.

00:48:24.651 --> 00:48:25.444
- Okay, good.

00:48:25.444 --> 00:48:27.821
I'm glad you get, glad you
let us know about this.

00:48:27.821 --> 00:48:28.697
- [Fredrick] All right.

00:48:28.697 --> 00:48:29.615
Thanks ma'am.

00:48:29.615 --> 00:48:30.449
- Be safe, okay.

00:48:30.449 --> 00:48:31.408
- [Fredrick] Yes ma'am, you too.

00:48:31.408 --> 00:48:32.242
- Okay, hun.

00:48:32.242 --> 00:48:33.076
Bye-bye.

00:48:41.084 --> 00:48:43.670
(gentle music)

00:48:46.214 --> 00:48:48.383
I say I wanna work for
another five or 10 years,

00:48:48.383 --> 00:48:49.968
till I'm 70 or 75,

00:48:49.968 --> 00:48:53.764
but I don't have much of
anything saved up for retirement

00:48:55.349 --> 00:48:56.683
so I have to be working part-time

00:48:56.683 --> 00:48:59.019
even just to sustain myself.

00:49:04.483 --> 00:49:06.610
I started work as the medical director

00:49:06.610 --> 00:49:08.570
at the methadone clinic in Columbus.

00:49:12.407 --> 00:49:15.619
Right now I'm getting up
at 3:45 four days a week,

00:49:15.619 --> 00:49:20.123
and that gets tiring.

00:49:31.259 --> 00:49:35.347
You know, I presume Mercer
is still planning on opening.

00:49:37.474 --> 00:49:39.393
I don't know what'll
happen when they open.

00:49:39.393 --> 00:49:41.770
I mean, they may suck
up everybody over there.

00:49:43.772 --> 00:49:46.358
(gentle music)

00:50:27.441 --> 00:50:30.235
- Ms. Kathy, this is Brandi
at Dr. Kinsell's office,

00:50:30.235 --> 00:50:31.945
please gimme a call.

00:50:31.945 --> 00:50:36.908
- Our computer part doesn't
work right now. (laughs)

00:50:36.950 --> 00:50:38.994
It's the best thing I can-

00:50:38.994 --> 00:50:41.204
- [Michael, On Phone] Well
when I use the cell phone

00:50:41.204 --> 00:50:43.331
I have to go out into the yard,

00:50:43.331 --> 00:50:45.584
and it's either hit or miss.

00:50:45.584 --> 00:50:48.879
- I've heard that so many times, yep.

00:50:48.879 --> 00:50:52.132
I've seen people standing
under the shed outside

00:50:52.132 --> 00:50:53.884
out of the rain so they can make a call.

00:50:53.884 --> 00:50:57.387
I mean this whole idea
of the video is just,

00:50:57.387 --> 00:50:59.931
we're not ready for that out here yet.

00:50:59.931 --> 00:51:01.725
How is your sugar doing?

00:51:01.725 --> 00:51:04.519
- [Michael] I haven't checked it lately.

00:51:06.188 --> 00:51:08.231
I've been, but I've been doing well.

00:51:08.231 --> 00:51:12.277
The worst part about all
this, this staying at home,

00:51:12.277 --> 00:51:14.780
I think I've gained some weight, okay?

00:51:14.780 --> 00:51:15.864
- Uh-huh.

00:51:15.864 --> 00:51:16.907
- [Michael] Before I was really,

00:51:16.907 --> 00:51:18.116
I was really working on the weight

00:51:18.116 --> 00:51:19.284
before you had to stay at home,

00:51:19.284 --> 00:51:20.827
and you couldn't go anywhere.

00:51:20.827 --> 00:51:23.538
Then I started to having
to cook for myself.

00:51:23.538 --> 00:51:25.749
- Maybe that cut it down.

00:51:25.749 --> 00:51:26.917
- [Michael] Still there?

00:51:26.917 --> 00:51:28.752
- [Dr. Kinsell] Yeah.

00:51:28.752 --> 00:51:31.463
- [Michael] Okay, hold on,
I've gotta change phones,

00:51:31.463 --> 00:51:33.590
the battery on it.

00:51:33.590 --> 00:51:36.551
- [Dr. Kinsell] Okay.

00:51:36.551 --> 00:51:38.303
- [Michael] You still there?

00:51:38.303 --> 00:51:39.763
- [Dr. Kinsell] Yeah.

00:51:39.763 --> 00:51:40.847
- [Michael] Okay.

00:51:40.847 --> 00:51:42.265
Now what was you saying?

00:51:42.265 --> 00:51:43.850
- Michael, you were 301

00:51:43.850 --> 00:51:45.936
when you were in the office last time.

00:51:47.062 --> 00:51:47.896
- [Michael] I know that,

00:51:47.896 --> 00:51:52.234
but I told you I've been
having to sit at home,

00:51:52.234 --> 00:51:53.485
I've been cooking.

00:51:53.485 --> 00:51:54.319
- [Dr. Kinsell] Okay, okay.

00:51:54.319 --> 00:51:56.530
- [Michael] It might not be 310, you know?

00:51:56.530 --> 00:51:57.447
- Okay.

00:51:57.447 --> 00:51:58.740
- [Michael] You really certainly,

00:51:58.740 --> 00:52:01.118
my health is much better

00:52:01.118 --> 00:52:03.453
with the visitations.

00:52:03.453 --> 00:52:06.832
I do miss you though, a personal visit,

00:52:06.832 --> 00:52:08.208
and thank you for all that you do for me.

00:52:08.208 --> 00:52:10.877
- Okay, sweetheart, take care.

00:52:10.877 --> 00:52:12.003
- [Michael] You too, good day.

00:52:12.003 --> 00:52:12.963
- Okay, hun.

00:52:15.173 --> 00:52:18.760
You, line two was someone
calling about an appointment,

00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.096
you said Kendra was on hold for me?

00:52:21.096 --> 00:52:23.265
- In tonight's "Brief but Spectacular,"

00:52:23.265 --> 00:52:25.225
we visit Dr. Karen Kinsell,

00:52:25.225 --> 00:52:28.395
she's the only physician
in Fort Gaines, Georgia,

00:52:28.395 --> 00:52:31.439
where she serves her
town's 3000 residents.

00:52:32.566 --> 00:52:34.943
(gentle music)

00:52:34.943 --> 00:52:37.362
- Our office was not built
as a doctor's office,

00:52:37.362 --> 00:52:38.655
and really shouldn't be a doctor's office.

00:52:38.655 --> 00:52:41.324
I really wish I was a
better public speaker.

00:52:41.324 --> 00:52:43.493
And it comes off as such a downer.

00:52:43.493 --> 00:52:44.494
I'm not animated.

00:52:44.494 --> 00:52:46.580
- [Cameraman] Is that why
you have "smile" over here?

00:52:46.580 --> 00:52:49.249
- Well, that's the camera thing.

00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:53.753
There was a PBS piece that
aired about two months ago,

00:52:53.753 --> 00:52:55.172
and they had told us

00:52:55.172 --> 00:52:57.007
"Oh, be sure you have a Facebook page

00:52:57.007 --> 00:52:57.841
"and everything 'cause you're gonna

00:52:57.841 --> 00:52:59.384
"get a lot of donations afterwards."

00:52:59.384 --> 00:53:01.136
And I kind of poo-pooed that,

00:53:01.136 --> 00:53:03.471
but we just started getting letters

00:53:03.471 --> 00:53:05.724
and donations in the mail.

00:53:05.724 --> 00:53:06.766
Got some phone calls,

00:53:06.766 --> 00:53:08.560
but most people just mailed things.

00:53:08.560 --> 00:53:10.729
One lady called Saturday morning,

00:53:10.729 --> 00:53:13.064
and asked me if I could use $2,500.

00:53:13.064 --> 00:53:14.649
I go "Sure."

00:53:14.649 --> 00:53:16.860
And I said "Well, do
you need a tax deduction

00:53:16.860 --> 00:53:17.903
"to the nonprofit?"

00:53:17.903 --> 00:53:21.031
And she said "Well, no these
checks were from Donald Trump,

00:53:21.031 --> 00:53:24.159
"so we don't care if
they're non-profit or not."

00:53:28.496 --> 00:53:33.501
This is the grocery bag
of letters we've gotten

00:53:35.587 --> 00:53:38.798
from people who sent us money.

00:53:40.300 --> 00:53:42.219
This is from California.

00:53:42.219 --> 00:53:45.013
Hello, we heard about the
extraordinary work you do

00:53:45.013 --> 00:53:49.226
on the news hour, hope this
helps a little, take care.

00:53:49.226 --> 00:53:51.895
Greetings, I saw you on PBS recently,

00:53:51.895 --> 00:53:53.563
and was inspired to send
you a little donation

00:53:53.563 --> 00:53:55.065
to use however you see best.

00:53:55.065 --> 00:53:57.400
Thanks for being you, best wishes.

00:53:57.400 --> 00:53:59.569
Out yonder in rural Georgia,

00:53:59.569 --> 00:54:00.445
in rural Oregon.

00:54:00.445 --> 00:54:02.572
She's out yonder in rural Oregon.

00:54:02.572 --> 00:54:03.657
That's sweet.

00:54:03.657 --> 00:54:06.284
So far it's been a little over 30,000.

00:54:06.284 --> 00:54:10.914
People have no idea how touching that is

00:54:10.914 --> 00:54:14.793
that someone happened to see that piece,

00:54:14.793 --> 00:54:16.294
and mailed a check.

00:54:16.294 --> 00:54:17.921
I mean, it's just astonishing.

00:54:20.215 --> 00:54:22.550
And I feel inadequate.

00:54:22.550 --> 00:54:24.803
You know, I mean what is
a good enough response

00:54:24.803 --> 00:54:26.221
to thank them for this?

00:54:26.221 --> 00:54:28.473
This is from Tennessee.

00:54:28.473 --> 00:54:30.392
This is from Maryland.

00:54:30.392 --> 00:54:32.811
I'm gonna be able to purchase the building

00:54:32.811 --> 00:54:34.938
where the clinic is,

00:54:34.938 --> 00:54:37.482
the estate that we've been renting it from

00:54:37.482 --> 00:54:39.442
is giving me a very reasonable price.

00:54:42.612 --> 00:54:44.322
We closed for COVID,

00:54:44.322 --> 00:54:45.573
and we had this opportunity to,

00:54:45.573 --> 00:54:47.826
to make some major
renovations to the office.

00:54:49.411 --> 00:54:51.997
(gentle music)

00:54:53.164 --> 00:54:55.875
I think it will maintain our patient base,

00:54:55.875 --> 00:54:57.669
probably attract new patients,

00:54:57.669 --> 00:55:00.714
and prevent the building
from just rotting out

00:55:00.714 --> 00:55:01.798
in the meantime.

00:55:04.551 --> 00:55:07.971
(gentle music continues)

00:55:09.556 --> 00:55:11.683
We knew this building had to be upgraded

00:55:11.683 --> 00:55:12.726
one way or another,

00:55:12.726 --> 00:55:16.146
and I didn't see how I
could afford to do it.

00:55:16.146 --> 00:55:18.732
(gentle music)

00:55:22.485 --> 00:55:24.779
It's really been a lifesaver.

00:55:34.831 --> 00:55:38.168
(indistinct chattering)

00:55:42.255 --> 00:55:44.507
It probably would work, but...

00:55:44.507 --> 00:55:45.467
- It would.

00:55:45.467 --> 00:55:47.802
- Does that look too stupid?

00:55:49.929 --> 00:55:52.182
- [Brandi] I don't think so.

00:56:05.862 --> 00:56:10.825
- That was fun. (laughs)

00:56:14.204 --> 00:56:16.790
(cell phone ringing)

00:56:16.790 --> 00:56:18.625
Hey, it's Dr. Kinsell.

00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:27.467
- First to start I'd like to find an area

00:56:27.467 --> 00:56:30.678
that you feel comfortable
being interviewed in,

00:56:30.678 --> 00:56:31.763
whether it's your desk,

00:56:31.763 --> 00:56:34.099
or a chair that you like somewhere.

00:56:34.099 --> 00:56:36.226
- You're aware that
this was a Tasty Freeze,

00:56:36.226 --> 00:56:37.060
this was the freezer.

00:56:37.060 --> 00:56:38.686
- Yes, I did catch that.

00:56:38.686 --> 00:56:41.564
- Do I need a better
background than Post-Its?

00:56:41.564 --> 00:56:42.565
- I don't dislike,

00:56:42.565 --> 00:56:44.359
do you have something in mind?

00:56:44.359 --> 00:56:46.903
I don't completely dislike the Post-Its.

00:56:50.698 --> 00:56:52.534
Whenever you're ready.

00:56:55.703 --> 00:56:57.038
- You know, we don't need someone

00:56:57.038 --> 00:56:58.873
who owns a New York Stock Exchange

00:56:58.873 --> 00:57:01.042
as our senator for Georgia,

00:57:01.042 --> 00:57:03.211
I want someone who's been arrested

00:57:03.211 --> 00:57:05.964
for fighting for Medicaid expansion.

00:57:05.964 --> 00:57:09.050
It's time, it's time for change.

00:57:09.050 --> 00:57:10.468
We need a warrior.

00:57:10.468 --> 00:57:13.221
We need a Warnock, a warrior.

00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:19.102
I think they should be using war.

00:57:19.102 --> 00:57:20.979
And I realize that kind of conflicts with

00:57:20.979 --> 00:57:22.856
some of the other core values,

00:57:22.856 --> 00:57:24.649
but 20 people on the ballot,

00:57:24.649 --> 00:57:26.276
and your second from the last,

00:57:26.276 --> 00:57:29.779
you have to have some identifier.

00:57:29.779 --> 00:57:31.698
You parked up front?

00:57:31.698 --> 00:57:33.700
- I did.

00:57:33.700 --> 00:57:35.994
- Do you need the bathroom
or a protein shake?

00:57:37.328 --> 00:57:39.164
- Protein shake?

00:57:39.164 --> 00:57:39.998
- Uh-huh.

00:57:41.124 --> 00:57:41.958
- Woo.

00:57:41.958 --> 00:57:42.792
Those are the good kind.

00:57:42.792 --> 00:57:43.626
- Uh-huh.

00:57:46.045 --> 00:57:47.505
Awesome.

00:57:47.505 --> 00:57:48.756
- Appreciate y'all,

00:57:48.756 --> 00:57:50.967
I'm sure we will share a
copy of the video with you

00:57:50.967 --> 00:57:52.010
once it's done.

00:57:52.010 --> 00:57:52.886
- [Dr. Kinsell] Thank you.

00:57:52.886 --> 00:57:53.720
- Thanks.

00:57:53.720 --> 00:57:54.554
- Okay.

00:57:54.554 --> 00:57:55.597
Drive carefully.

00:58:00.268 --> 00:58:02.103
Hey, it's Dr. Kinsell.

00:58:21.789 --> 00:58:24.459
(Ken whistling)

00:58:26.794 --> 00:58:30.256
- This is to the nursing
home through these doors.

00:58:30.256 --> 00:58:31.424
Heating and air conditioning,

00:58:31.424 --> 00:58:34.219
it's control room, computer room.

00:58:34.219 --> 00:58:37.347
This is the clinic break room.

00:58:40.099 --> 00:58:45.063
Medicine storage,
samples, vaccine storage,

00:58:45.063 --> 00:58:47.899
refrigerator, nurse's quarters.

00:58:47.899 --> 00:58:51.110
And this will be the doc's
office, doctor's office.

00:58:52.904 --> 00:58:57.534
And he has his own bathroom.

00:58:57.534 --> 00:58:58.618
This is the lab.

00:58:58.618 --> 00:59:01.371
Go ahead and take a urine sample,

00:59:01.371 --> 00:59:03.414
you'd put it in there.

00:59:05.792 --> 00:59:08.461
(Ken whistling)

00:59:10.213 --> 00:59:14.342
This room is gonna be
primarily telemedicine,

00:59:14.342 --> 00:59:16.010
and then x-ray room.

00:59:21.933 --> 00:59:24.435
Mercer will provide the x-ray.

00:59:27.313 --> 00:59:30.233
- [Ken] Couple weeks I would guess.

00:59:38.491 --> 00:59:41.077
(gentle music)

00:59:47.875 --> 00:59:49.586
It is happening, thank goodness.

00:59:49.586 --> 00:59:52.088
After years and years it is happening.

00:59:53.506 --> 00:59:56.092
(gentle music)

01:00:26.497 --> 01:00:28.416
- [Robert] You wanna tell the story?

01:00:28.416 --> 01:00:29.459
- [Dr. Kinsell] OkCupid.

01:00:29.459 --> 01:00:31.127
- We met on OkCupid.

01:00:32.086 --> 01:00:34.172
- [Robert] I couldn't believe
that I didn't know her already

01:00:34.172 --> 01:00:36.466
'cause she was writing about

01:00:36.466 --> 01:00:38.968
being interested in
social justice on OkCupid,

01:00:38.968 --> 01:00:41.179
how did I miss this
woman in South Georgia?

01:00:42.513 --> 01:00:44.849
We've lived in separate
towns the whole time.

01:00:44.849 --> 01:00:49.145
We've been commuting about
two hours each way on weekends

01:00:49.145 --> 01:00:51.564
for going on 12 years now.

01:00:52.607 --> 01:00:54.776
- A situation that I've never
really seen before here,

01:00:54.776 --> 01:00:56.778
people have been stealing the signs,

01:00:56.778 --> 01:00:59.947
so we've been placing them back,

01:00:59.947 --> 01:01:02.784
but the idea of removing the signs

01:01:02.784 --> 01:01:06.329
I find pretty abhorrent.

01:01:06.329 --> 01:01:08.289
- [Cameraman] So who are you voting for?

01:01:08.289 --> 01:01:10.833
- Um, that's even not so... (laughs)

01:01:13.127 --> 01:01:16.547
I support anyone who supports
access to healthcare,

01:01:17.632 --> 01:01:20.385
and it seems to be Ossoff
and Warnock in this case.

01:01:29.185 --> 01:01:31.020
Here's a Warnock sign,

01:01:37.944 --> 01:01:40.863
and here's a couple
Ossoff and Warnock signs.

01:01:42.907 --> 01:01:44.367
So they're kinda wet.

01:01:46.994 --> 01:01:48.538
Often they'll bend them like this

01:01:48.538 --> 01:01:51.082
so you can't really put
'em back up straight again.

01:01:58.423 --> 01:02:00.758
Yeah, can I have an Ossoff over here?

01:02:01.884 --> 01:02:02.719
- [Robert] Have a which one?

01:02:02.719 --> 01:02:03.636
- An Ossoff at least.

01:02:12.478 --> 01:02:16.733
And generally people respect
if it's on private property,

01:02:16.733 --> 01:02:17.567
they won't touch it,

01:02:17.567 --> 01:02:21.571
but signs were stolen
in front of my house.

01:02:21.571 --> 01:02:25.199
This, I'm just, covered under some gravel,

01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:27.410
is a Stacey Abrams for governor sign.

01:02:29.787 --> 01:02:32.540
So, yeah, there's been many signs

01:02:32.540 --> 01:02:34.667
born and died here,

01:02:34.667 --> 01:02:36.711
and it's litter.

01:02:57.565 --> 01:03:00.318
(knocking on door)

01:03:01.611 --> 01:03:02.779
Hey.

01:03:02.779 --> 01:03:03.613
- [Bonnie] Hey.

01:03:03.613 --> 01:03:04.489
- [Dr. Kinsell] How are you?

01:03:04.489 --> 01:03:07.033
- I've been seeing that psychiatrist,

01:03:07.867 --> 01:03:12.288
I been going to the group
sessions there in Cuthbert,

01:03:12.288 --> 01:03:15.541
and it was tied into
the Cuthbert Hospital.

01:03:15.541 --> 01:03:16.709
- [Dr. Kinsell] Yeah.

01:03:16.709 --> 01:03:18.711
- Well they closed the Cuthbert Hospital.

01:03:18.711 --> 01:03:19.545
- Yeah.

01:03:19.545 --> 01:03:21.464
- Thereforth I don't have
a psychiatrist anymore.

01:03:21.464 --> 01:03:23.841
- Well what did they say to do then?

01:03:23.841 --> 01:03:25.843
- They said I'd have to find a doctor.

01:03:25.843 --> 01:03:27.762
- They didn't set anything up?

01:03:27.762 --> 01:03:29.055
- No, that's exactly what they said,

01:03:29.055 --> 01:03:31.682
you gotta find a doctor,
find you another doctor.

01:03:31.682 --> 01:03:35.311
- Okay, let me give you the phone number

01:03:35.311 --> 01:03:38.481
for the one that's closest.

01:03:38.481 --> 01:03:40.775
And you've lost some more
weight too, haven't you?

01:03:40.775 --> 01:03:42.610
- Yeah, that concerns me too.

01:03:42.610 --> 01:03:44.695
- [Dr. Kinsell] What's going on there?

01:03:44.695 --> 01:03:46.697
- I just don't feel like eating anymore.

01:03:47.782 --> 01:03:49.659
- Do does your stomach hurt?

01:03:49.659 --> 01:03:50.618
- Nuh-uh.

01:03:50.618 --> 01:03:51.869
My stomach don't hurt.

01:03:51.869 --> 01:03:53.579
- You just don't have interest in it?

01:03:53.579 --> 01:03:55.832
Is it partly the COVID?

01:03:55.832 --> 01:03:57.208
- No, no.

01:03:57.208 --> 01:03:58.918
- You're fine with COVID, okay.

01:04:04.674 --> 01:04:06.592
I heard you were dizzy today.

01:04:06.592 --> 01:04:08.678
- [Bonnie] I've been dizzy
for about a week now.

01:04:08.678 --> 01:04:10.096
- Whoa, what's going on?

01:04:10.096 --> 01:04:14.559
- I don't know, I'm just tired,
my legs hurt when I walk.

01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:16.394
I just get so dizzy.

01:04:16.394 --> 01:04:18.771
Yesterday at Walmart I
had to call my husband,

01:04:18.771 --> 01:04:20.857
tell 'em come get me.

01:04:20.857 --> 01:04:23.776
- But, yeah, if you're
having symptoms with this

01:04:23.776 --> 01:04:25.486
we're gonna have to get you to someplace

01:04:25.486 --> 01:04:27.572
where they can check you out better.

01:04:27.572 --> 01:04:29.490
Do you wanna go to Albany or Dothan?

01:04:30.449 --> 01:04:31.951
- I mean, what am I gonna do?

01:04:31.951 --> 01:04:32.785
I mean-

01:04:32.785 --> 01:04:33.744
- Well, go to the ER.

01:04:33.744 --> 01:04:35.037
- Oh.

01:04:35.037 --> 01:04:37.582
- We can't have you feel this miserable.

01:04:37.582 --> 01:04:38.708
- Nuh-uh.

01:04:38.708 --> 01:04:40.418
- [Dr. Kinsell] Do you want
us to call the ambulance,

01:04:40.418 --> 01:04:42.169
or you're gonna go home
and get your husband?

01:04:42.169 --> 01:04:43.796
- I'll go home and get my husband.

01:04:43.796 --> 01:04:45.548
- [Dr. Kinsell] Okay.

01:04:49.468 --> 01:04:51.929
Do you feel strong enough
to drive back up there?

01:04:52.805 --> 01:04:55.182
- Yeah, I can do it.

01:04:55.182 --> 01:04:57.351
Oh, that's a lot medicine.

01:04:57.351 --> 01:04:58.519
- Yeah, it is.

01:05:03.357 --> 01:05:05.943
(gentle music)

01:05:41.646 --> 01:05:45.066
(gentle music continues)

01:06:34.115 --> 01:06:37.368
So that's at 2.6 degrees, which is,

01:06:37.368 --> 01:06:39.495
it has to be under five.

01:06:39.495 --> 01:06:42.540
Well we thought the office
freezer would be functional

01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:44.125
by the time it came,

01:06:44.125 --> 01:06:45.376
and it was not,

01:06:45.376 --> 01:06:47.086
so we had to bring it to my home freezer,

01:06:47.086 --> 01:06:48.879
which is maintaining temperature.

01:06:50.006 --> 01:06:51.882
So I have 30 people scheduled,

01:06:51.882 --> 01:06:54.760
so I'm gonna go ahead
and remove three vials.

01:07:04.603 --> 01:07:05.896
So you're gonna take those in your car?

01:07:05.896 --> 01:07:06.731
- Yeah, I'll take 'em in my car.

01:07:06.731 --> 01:07:07.565
- Okay.

01:07:15.406 --> 01:07:20.411
- Thermometer here is 37, which is good.

01:07:26.459 --> 01:07:28.044
Okay.

01:07:28.044 --> 01:07:32.173
This was the list of
patients from our computer

01:07:32.173 --> 01:07:34.717
who were 75 or over.

01:07:34.717 --> 01:07:38.429
I contacted everyone who I knew

01:07:38.429 --> 01:07:41.057
was not in a nursing home,

01:07:41.057 --> 01:07:44.310
or that I know had passed.

01:07:44.310 --> 01:07:45.978
And, Robert, what we didn't do yesterday

01:07:45.978 --> 01:07:47.897
is temperatures at the door.

01:07:48.981 --> 01:07:50.066
- All right.

01:07:50.066 --> 01:07:51.650
- Okay, that's the on button
towards the bottom there.

01:07:51.650 --> 01:07:52.610
- Okay.

01:07:52.610 --> 01:07:53.694
- [Dr. Kinsell] Good morning.

01:07:53.694 --> 01:07:56.572
- Good morning, good
morning, come in the house.

01:07:56.572 --> 01:07:57.698
I need to take your temperature.

01:07:57.698 --> 01:07:58.532
- Okay.

01:08:01.535 --> 01:08:02.912
- And y'all are, bless your hearts,

01:08:02.912 --> 01:08:03.871
the first group today,

01:08:03.871 --> 01:08:06.207
so you're gonna get the
brand new fresh vaccine

01:08:06.207 --> 01:08:08.793
that's just had a chance to warm up.

01:08:08.793 --> 01:08:11.295
- Gonna let you have a seat over here.

01:08:12.129 --> 01:08:16.300
Clay County's been hit
badly this past week or two,

01:08:16.300 --> 01:08:18.427
city hall is closed,

01:08:18.427 --> 01:08:20.971
there's been an outbreak
at the post office,

01:08:20.971 --> 01:08:23.015
so we decided it,

01:08:23.015 --> 01:08:25.309
we just need to go ahead and get this out.

01:08:25.309 --> 01:08:27.478
We weren't expecting to get it so soon,

01:08:27.478 --> 01:08:31.941
but it just arrived by
FedEx Wednesday afternoon,

01:08:31.941 --> 01:08:34.985
so that's why y'all got called.

01:08:34.985 --> 01:08:38.447
This is Dr. Frank Isle,
he's a retired pathologist

01:08:38.447 --> 01:08:39.824
that lives out on the lake,

01:08:39.824 --> 01:08:44.120
so he gave me my shot
yesterday that still hurts.

01:08:44.120 --> 01:08:46.163
(everyone laughing)

01:08:46.163 --> 01:08:48.958
I'm not saying it's your fault but...

01:08:48.958 --> 01:08:51.335
- Well she gave me my
shot and it still hurts.

01:08:51.335 --> 01:08:52.962
(everyone laughing)

01:08:52.962 --> 01:08:54.880
- Is there somebody else
that can give the shot?

01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:57.883
(everyone laughing)

01:08:59.510 --> 01:09:04.056
- The state has kind of a priority list.

01:09:04.056 --> 01:09:07.184
We're getting very little
direction from the state

01:09:07.184 --> 01:09:09.687
about how that's supposed to happen.

01:09:09.687 --> 01:09:12.273
They've done no planning
that we can perceive

01:09:12.273 --> 01:09:13.440
about this whole thing.

01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:15.943
You okay?

01:09:15.943 --> 01:09:16.777
- I'm good.

01:09:16.777 --> 01:09:17.611
- Good.

01:09:25.578 --> 01:09:26.412
Hello.

01:09:28.372 --> 01:09:30.583
Do you want me to bring
your shot over here

01:09:30.583 --> 01:09:32.543
so you don't have to walk over?

01:09:32.543 --> 01:09:33.377
- I got it yet?

01:09:34.253 --> 01:09:35.254
- Yeah, you did.

01:09:46.223 --> 01:09:47.725
- Here for the COVID vaccine?

01:09:47.725 --> 01:09:49.935
Come in, come in.

01:09:49.935 --> 01:09:51.437
Hi, hi.

01:09:51.437 --> 01:09:52.438
- Who's next?

01:09:53.522 --> 01:09:56.192
- Quite seriously, I would
love to help if I can.

01:09:56.192 --> 01:09:57.610
I can sure do phone calls,

01:09:57.610 --> 01:10:00.404
and handle any paperwork
if you need any help.

01:10:00.404 --> 01:10:01.363
- Thank you.

01:10:01.363 --> 01:10:02.865
Okay, you're good.

01:10:05.242 --> 01:10:08.579
- Well you're welcome, it's a privilege.

01:10:23.928 --> 01:10:24.762
- Yeah, that's what I like,

01:10:24.762 --> 01:10:26.889
stray old men hollering at me.

01:10:26.889 --> 01:10:29.892
(everyone laughing)

01:10:32.478 --> 01:10:35.147
If I sneeze I’ll have to pick my drawers back up.

01:10:35.731 --> 01:10:38.734
(everyone laughing)

01:10:41.904 --> 01:10:44.865
- Now let your arm down, let it relax.

01:10:44.865 --> 01:10:47.284
- I can't let it relax you
got a needle in your hand.

01:10:47.284 --> 01:10:48.994
- I don't have it in your arm yet.

01:10:51.455 --> 01:10:52.915
Okay.

01:10:52.915 --> 01:10:53.749
- Mm-hmm.

01:10:55.668 --> 01:10:57.378
- Let me get a bandaid on you.

01:11:00.547 --> 01:11:02.758
- First I decided I wasn't gonna take it,

01:11:02.758 --> 01:11:04.885
'cause I don't wanna be a guinea pig.

01:11:04.885 --> 01:11:06.720
Me and my brother, we talked the last two

01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:07.554
or three weeks,

01:11:07.554 --> 01:11:08.764
and I told my brother last week,

01:11:08.764 --> 01:11:10.641
I said "As soon as I get a chance,

01:11:10.641 --> 01:11:12.559
"I'm gonna go ahead and get it."

01:11:12.559 --> 01:11:14.144
My family's up in Kentucky,

01:11:14.144 --> 01:11:18.816
I lost my oldest daughter a
couple weeks ago to COVID-19,

01:11:21.777 --> 01:11:24.655
and I didn't go up to
the funeral or nothing.

01:11:24.655 --> 01:11:26.699
- [Cameraman] Well, did
losing your daughter

01:11:26.699 --> 01:11:29.159
make you change your mind
about the, did that impact it?

01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:31.203
- No, that ain't have
nothing to do with it.

01:11:31.203 --> 01:11:32.037
Nuh-uh.

01:11:32.037 --> 01:11:33.163
If they wanna go ahead

01:11:33.163 --> 01:11:34.123
and use me for guinea pig,

01:11:34.123 --> 01:11:36.542
if that's what they wanna do at my age,

01:11:36.542 --> 01:11:37.876
I'd rather them use me at my age

01:11:37.876 --> 01:11:40.462
than to use some young person.

01:11:46.635 --> 01:11:49.013
No, see, this isn't blood
pressure, it's a shot,

01:11:49.013 --> 01:11:51.974
so pull your arm out
of the sleeve, I think.

01:11:51.974 --> 01:11:52.808
- Oh, yeah, okay.

01:11:52.808 --> 01:11:54.435
- [Dr. Kinsell] Go ahead and do that.

01:11:56.603 --> 01:11:58.897
Thank you, Lord.

01:11:58.897 --> 01:12:00.482
Thank you, Jesus.

01:12:01.400 --> 01:12:04.320
In Jesus' name, let this work.

01:12:04.320 --> 01:12:05.154
- [Dr. Kinsell] Yes.

01:12:05.154 --> 01:12:06.822
- In Jesus' name I pray to you.

01:12:07.906 --> 01:12:08.741
Oh, Jehovah.

01:12:09.783 --> 01:12:10.576
Amen.

01:12:23.547 --> 01:12:25.382
Hey, this is Dr. Kinsell.

01:12:27.885 --> 01:12:31.263
We have the coronavirus vaccine in now,

01:12:32.556 --> 01:12:37.561
do you think Erline would
be interested in taking it?

01:12:37.895 --> 01:12:39.730
It should work, yeah.

01:12:40.564 --> 01:12:42.107
Would you want me to stop by the house

01:12:42.107 --> 01:12:44.026
and give it to her?

01:12:45.402 --> 01:12:48.530
Okay, we'll be up in just about,

01:12:48.530 --> 01:12:50.032
the next half hour.

01:12:50.991 --> 01:12:51.992
Okay, bye, bye.

01:13:08.550 --> 01:13:11.553
Well don't you look nice.

01:13:11.553 --> 01:13:12.721
- [Erline] How you doing?

01:13:12.721 --> 01:13:14.223
- I am doing great.

01:13:14.223 --> 01:13:15.224
- [Erline] Merry Christmas.

01:13:15.224 --> 01:13:17.351
- Merry Christmas.

01:13:17.351 --> 01:13:19.103
How old are you?

01:13:19.103 --> 01:13:22.439
- 100 and three months.

01:13:24.983 --> 01:13:27.027
- [Dr. Kinsell] Are you sick today?

01:13:27.027 --> 01:13:31.573
- No, ma'am.

01:13:31.573 --> 01:13:33.534
- That was it.

01:13:33.534 --> 01:13:34.618
- That's it?

01:13:34.618 --> 01:13:35.619
- That's it.

01:13:36.787 --> 01:13:38.747
- You looking good.

01:13:41.166 --> 01:13:44.002
You look like you're in your 20's.

01:13:45.003 --> 01:13:46.505
Thank you, ma'am.

01:13:46.505 --> 01:13:47.589
- It didn't hurt?

01:13:47.589 --> 01:13:49.258
- No, ma'am it didn't hurt.

01:13:49.258 --> 01:13:52.261
And I thank you.

01:13:52.261 --> 01:13:54.346
- Okay, it was fun.

01:13:55.889 --> 01:13:58.809
- She's got a good appetite.

01:13:58.809 --> 01:14:01.395
(gentle music)

01:14:17.870 --> 01:14:19.121
- I mean if people need to be seen,

01:14:19.121 --> 01:14:21.623
they need to be seen.

01:14:21.623 --> 01:14:24.168
We can make time anytime.

01:14:24.168 --> 01:14:26.962
(gentle music)

01:14:26.962 --> 01:14:29.840
That one's pretty crunchy.

01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:31.842
I saw him...

01:14:35.596 --> 01:14:36.889
You want some more water?

01:14:37.931 --> 01:14:39.808
- Want some more water?

01:14:39.808 --> 01:14:43.228
(gentle music continues)

01:15:15.469 --> 01:15:17.554
Although I should put the pearls on here.

01:15:18.597 --> 01:15:19.765
- Yeah, let me take the pearls out

01:15:19.765 --> 01:15:20.933
so you can put them on.

01:15:23.268 --> 01:15:25.145
- I got pearls for Christmas.

01:15:25.145 --> 01:15:27.022
- They look pretty decent.

01:15:27.022 --> 01:15:29.191
Well we decided to get married

01:15:29.191 --> 01:15:34.196
because we see death and
illness all around us, partly.

01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:38.659
Robert actually had some
reaction to the vaccine,

01:15:38.659 --> 01:15:42.412
and you think something
could happen, shit,

01:15:42.412 --> 01:15:45.040
and we decided it was time
to get on with our lives.

01:15:46.166 --> 01:15:48.585
- Well and honestly
that's been my big issue

01:15:48.585 --> 01:15:51.922
about marriage in the first
place is something could happen,

01:15:51.922 --> 01:15:53.840
and I don't want to have to argue

01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:55.008
with hospital personnel about

01:15:55.008 --> 01:15:56.426
do I get to see my beloved.

01:15:57.386 --> 01:15:58.428
We both had the commitment,

01:15:58.428 --> 01:15:59.471
we've got a commitment

01:15:59.471 --> 01:16:01.890
to a long-term monogamous relationship,

01:16:01.890 --> 01:16:02.975
and that's what it is.

01:16:02.975 --> 01:16:04.309
- So your ring is here.

01:16:04.309 --> 01:16:05.394
- [Robert] My ring is there.

01:16:05.394 --> 01:16:07.563
- And this is the-

01:16:07.563 --> 01:16:09.022
- That's the green lantern ring,

01:16:09.022 --> 01:16:09.856
in case we should want to get married

01:16:09.856 --> 01:16:11.316
with the green lantern ring, yes.

01:16:12.568 --> 01:16:13.944
- Yeah, we didn't buy anything.

01:16:13.944 --> 01:16:15.070
- We didn't buy rings.

01:16:16.405 --> 01:16:17.406
- My...

01:16:17.406 --> 01:16:20.242
- After my paternal grandmother died

01:16:20.242 --> 01:16:24.663
when I was in college,
her engagement ring,

01:16:24.663 --> 01:16:28.625
I had it reset to this,

01:16:28.625 --> 01:16:30.544
and I've really never worn it.

01:16:30.544 --> 01:16:33.255
And Robert has his great-

01:16:33.255 --> 01:16:35.007
- Great-grandfather's ring.

01:16:35.007 --> 01:16:39.052
We think it's, the family says
the providence is European.

01:16:40.095 --> 01:16:43.181
You wanna put that ring
in here or keep it on?

01:16:43.181 --> 01:16:45.183
- Well, I need to have it on me somehow.

01:16:45.183 --> 01:16:47.603
- That's fine, I just
wanna make sure I know.

01:16:47.603 --> 01:16:48.812
- Yeah, I'll keep it.

01:16:48.812 --> 01:16:49.771
- Okay.

01:16:52.941 --> 01:16:54.318
You got it,

01:16:54.318 --> 01:16:55.944
and we have another ring for emergencies.

01:16:55.944 --> 01:16:57.613
That's why we have emergency rings.

01:16:57.613 --> 01:16:58.572
- Okay.

01:16:58.572 --> 01:16:59.406
- Yes.

01:16:59.406 --> 01:17:00.240
- Okay.

01:17:30.562 --> 01:17:32.689
- [Woman] And I think we're live.

01:17:32.689 --> 01:17:33.815
- We're live.

01:17:33.815 --> 01:17:35.859
- And here comes the bride.

01:17:36.902 --> 01:17:38.362
Very nice.

01:17:38.362 --> 01:17:40.405
- You're wearing pearls, how Republican.

01:17:41.448 --> 01:17:43.241
- They're not, it's like the flag.

01:17:43.241 --> 01:17:45.369
It's not a Republican symbol,

01:17:45.369 --> 01:17:47.120
it's a Republican, it's a symbol of-

01:17:47.120 --> 01:17:48.955
- I'm just messing with you.

01:17:48.955 --> 01:17:50.415
- [Dr. Kinsell] Oh my gosh.

01:17:50.415 --> 01:17:51.792
- [Woman] Oh, they're pretty.

01:17:51.792 --> 01:17:53.126
- [Dr. Kinsell] Oh my gosh.

01:17:54.086 --> 01:17:56.880
Look at your how pretty.

01:17:56.880 --> 01:17:57.714
Oh, how pretty.

01:17:57.714 --> 01:17:58.882
Oh my gosh.

01:17:58.882 --> 01:18:00.092
- [Woman] They did a good job.

01:18:00.092 --> 01:18:01.843
Where'd y'all order 'em from?

01:18:01.843 --> 01:18:03.762
- Tisa's in Eufaula.

01:18:03.762 --> 01:18:06.807
Karen, let me please
borrow you for a minute.

01:18:08.517 --> 01:18:09.851
Hope you can get it off.

01:18:09.851 --> 01:18:12.938
It's gonna be awkward if I have to...

01:18:15.065 --> 01:18:17.025
- [Robert] There it goes.

01:18:17.025 --> 01:18:18.110
- Okay, good.

01:18:18.110 --> 01:18:19.152
Maybe that's not the right place.

01:18:19.152 --> 01:18:20.779
- Maybe that's not the right.

01:18:20.779 --> 01:18:23.365
(upbeat music)

01:18:29.413 --> 01:18:31.998
- The lighting from the windows.

01:18:31.998 --> 01:18:32.916
One, two, three.

01:18:32.916 --> 01:18:35.502
(gentle music)

01:18:36.795 --> 01:18:37.796
- Beautiful.

01:18:37.796 --> 01:18:38.672
- Thank you.

01:18:38.672 --> 01:18:39.923
- All right, one more.

01:18:39.923 --> 01:18:42.050
- Thank you.

01:18:42.050 --> 01:18:43.093
- I know you're tired.

01:18:43.093 --> 01:18:43.927
- Yeah.

01:18:43.927 --> 01:18:46.513
(gentle music)

01:18:46.722 --> 01:18:48.849
- Walk slowly.

01:18:48.849 --> 01:18:51.435
(gentle music)

01:19:08.243 --> 01:19:09.077
- [Robert] I Robert.

01:19:09.077 --> 01:19:10.370
- [Officiant] Take you, Karen.

01:19:10.370 --> 01:19:11.663
- [Robert] Take you, Karen.

01:19:11.663 --> 01:19:14.124
- [Officiant] To be my spouse
and partner in marriage.

01:19:14.124 --> 01:19:16.877
- [Robert] To be my spouse
and partner in marriage.

01:19:16.877 --> 01:19:17.711
- I Karen.

01:19:17.711 --> 01:19:18.754
- [Officiant] Take you, Robert.

01:19:18.754 --> 01:19:19.921
- Take you, Robert.

01:19:19.921 --> 01:19:21.923
- [Officiant] To be my spouse
and partner in marriage.

01:19:21.923 --> 01:19:25.218
- To be my spouse and partner in marriage.

01:19:25.218 --> 01:19:26.678
- [Officiant] To have and to hold.

01:19:26.678 --> 01:19:28.430
- To have and to hold.

01:19:28.430 --> 01:19:29.264
- [Officiant] From this day forward.

01:19:29.264 --> 01:19:30.932
- From this day forward.

01:19:30.932 --> 01:19:33.101
- [Officiant] To love and to cherish.

01:19:33.101 --> 01:19:34.686
- To love and to cherish.

01:19:34.686 --> 01:19:36.772
- [Officiant] Until we
are parted by death.

01:19:36.772 --> 01:19:39.441
- Until we are parted by death.

01:19:39.441 --> 01:19:40.901
- [Officiant] This is my solemn vow.

01:19:40.901 --> 01:19:42.569
- This is my solemn vow.

01:19:42.569 --> 01:19:44.821
- [Officiant] You may kiss.

01:19:46.031 --> 01:19:50.577
(Star Wars Theme Song)

01:20:00.337 --> 01:20:03.340
(guests applauding)

01:20:08.553 --> 01:20:10.263
- I'm gonna take my mask off.

01:20:10.263 --> 01:20:12.599
- Yeah, take your masks off.

01:20:18.021 --> 01:20:21.691
- To boldly go where
no one has gone before.

01:20:22.484 --> 01:20:25.070
(Star Trek Theme Song)

01:21:16.830 --> 01:21:18.957
- [Dr. Kinsell] I really
feel more energized

01:21:18.957 --> 01:21:20.834
than I have in years.

01:21:29.009 --> 01:21:32.304
It is such a privilege
to know you're needed,

01:21:32.304 --> 01:21:34.764
and good in all these areas.

01:21:37.267 --> 01:21:39.144
It's almost like magic.

01:21:46.860 --> 01:21:48.612
I thought we were just gonna have to close

01:21:48.612 --> 01:21:49.613
when Mercer opened,

01:21:50.989 --> 01:21:53.158
and that's not been the case at all.

01:21:56.077 --> 01:21:57.704
We've been able to keep the office open,

01:21:57.704 --> 01:22:00.540
and actually the clinic
is now paying me some.

01:22:00.540 --> 01:22:02.918
I found some princess stuff for you,

01:22:02.918 --> 01:22:05.086
do you like princesses?

01:22:05.086 --> 01:22:06.004
You do?

01:22:06.004 --> 01:22:09.174
Okay, well there's' a
coloring book and some colors.

01:22:09.174 --> 01:22:10.842
How's your breathing doing?

01:22:10.842 --> 01:22:11.676
- My breathing's fine,

01:22:11.676 --> 01:22:12.802
but my side-

01:22:12.802 --> 01:22:14.304
- [Dr. Kinsell] We will
continue to see people

01:22:14.304 --> 01:22:16.431
regardless of their ability to pay,

01:22:16.431 --> 01:22:19.517
but the reality is that
is the reality here,

01:22:19.517 --> 01:22:22.312
people cannot afford
to pay for healthcare.

01:22:26.691 --> 01:22:29.486
If I leave town or drop dead

01:22:29.486 --> 01:22:31.279
or whatever there isn't anything,

01:22:33.365 --> 01:22:34.991
people won't get healthcare.

01:22:38.662 --> 01:22:40.538
So I really worry after me.

01:22:47.879 --> 01:22:51.800
Again, what do you do
with the poor people?

01:23:02.894 --> 01:23:07.774
(gentle music)

01:23:18.243 --> 01:23:20.829
(gentle music)

01:23:33.258 --> 01:23:36.636
(gentle music continues)