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>> My name is Lisa Stevenson.

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I'm a nurse practitioner, and that means
that I am able to see patients and treat,

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diagnose their illnesses and treat them and
manage their health on an ongoing basis.

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I go to work in the morning, and the day
begins where I see urgent care sick visits

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for a couple of hours from 7 to 9.

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Anything that anybody wants to
come in with and complain about.

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It's a little bit more convenient and it's
certainly less time-consuming than going

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to the emergency room for things that can
be handled usually in a general urgent care.

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This isn't for something
that's life-threatening.

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This is for folks who may have something
that needs to be sutured or have strep throat

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or fear that they do, or they have bronchitis.

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So I see those folks on a walk-in basis,
which is a convenience to our population.

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And then starting it 9 o'clock, I start to
see regularly scheduled patients who may need

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to follow up on their diabetes, may actually
just have another kind of illness for that day.

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Might need to have a general health
physical, receive immunizations.

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So I work in a family practice.

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We see anyone from newborn.

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I think we have somebody who's 107, okay?

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But you know, we see people of all
ages and follow them for, you know,

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as long as they choose to stay with us.

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And so that would include anything
from just managing your health

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and just making sure you remain
healthy, checking your cholesterol,

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checking your cholesterol, to, you know, maybe
discovering that there is a health problem

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and then beginning to treat that or
covering for incidental illnesses that come

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up as they might anybody's life along the way.

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If you, again happen to get a cough or
sore throat or something like that, or you,

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or you know, simpler things like wounds
of that can be managed, you know,

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on an outpatient basis or something.