0:01 my name is Alfred Hurley I'll be at the
0:03 mle office um in [Music]
0:09 Tyson's I went to University of Kentucky
0:11 for a medical school and then in my
0:13 general medicine training I was in South
0:15 Carolina Greenville South Carolina and
0:16 then for Cardiology was in Milwaukee
0:18 then West Virginia for my focal
0:21 Interventional procedural Based training
0:22 um and then my first job was in Delaware
0:25 before essentially uh moving to Northern
0:28 Virginia in my last job I worked on
0:30 emergent heart attacks so I did the
0:31 minimal invasive procedures where you'd
0:34 open up blockages I worked on periphal
0:35 arterial disease where we opened up
0:37 blockages in the legs for people who had
0:39 pain um for limb Salvage people who had
0:40 Gang Green and were at risk for
0:42 amputations um and it was during that
0:45 job that I actually first got exposed to
0:47 veins so I worked in the deep vein
0:49 system putting stance as well as a
0:51 superficial vein system where we treated
0:57 [Music]
0:59 insufficiency so like I kind of
1:02 mentioned earlier um uh you know and I I
1:04 find this is actually a very common
1:06 thing in medical training especially at
1:08 the time that I was training Venus inici
1:10 was not something that was widely
1:11 focused on um obviously you learned
1:14 about it but it definitely wasn't um a
1:17 point of of of focus um and it was
1:19 actually after working and managing vein
1:22 patients um it was just it it was wild
1:24 how all of my patients had the same
1:26 story where they had pain for years and
1:28 years and years unresolved no answer at
1:31 all and Ne just by by a random ad on a
1:33 computer or TV or they happen to be
1:34 seeing a doctor that had some
1:35 familiarity with it they would end up
1:37 with us and we'd do a very simple
1:42 procedure and literally years of I hate
1:44 saying like the suffering you know they
1:46 magically had Improvement a better
1:48 quality of life and they were extremely
1:52 extremely um uh grateful you know Ju
1:53 Just for something small I feel like
1:55 that we were doing um made a big
1:56 difference in our life [Music]
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2:03 yeah so CVR um I mean it's just kind of
2:04 a perfect fit so I've been with Center
2:07 for vascular medicine um for the past
2:10 year um where we focus on the deep vein
2:14 system um working with Mayers or
2:16 compression in the more Central veins um
2:19 pelvic congestion syndrome and um
2:22 treating that kind of links directly to
2:23 what we do with Center for vein
2:26 restoration where we're managing the
2:28 veins and the legs The Superficial veins
2:29 um and there's so much crossover and overlap
2:30 overlap
2:32 um and what's actually very familiar
2:34 with me is taking a very comprehensive
2:35 approach to treatment so by joining
2:38 Center for vein restoration I get to see
2:40 kind of a more complete full patient and
2:42 manage that patient on on both ends of
2:45 it um and you know I think it's
2:48 important uh from a patient standpoint
2:49 but also a provider
2:52 standpoint that continuity as far as
2:53 position I think there's there's value
2:55 in that as well so it's just a kind of a
2:56 perfect fit and and and works in seamlessly
3:05 something very important to me um is
3:09 patient education um and it sounds kind
3:11 of cliche but kind patient empowerment
3:14 um you know I I think very commonly in
3:17 medicine I would uh see patients um and
3:19 you know they when you kind of go
3:20 through their history there are plenty
3:23 of times where they're um have no idea
3:25 why they're seeing me in the first place
3:26 and this is even from a cardiologist
3:29 standpoint in my my past life um uh and
3:32 as a procedur list um very commonly you
3:33 end up seeing a patient in the hospital
3:35 and they have no idea what's about to
3:38 happen what is about to be done um so I
3:41 I make it a priority of mine to make
3:42 sure patients have at least a good
3:45 understanding or even a a visual an
3:47 image of what it is we're even looking
3:49 at why we're looking at it what to
3:52 expect as an improvement um and then you
3:54 know when they make that transition from
3:55 seeing us in office to the procedure
3:58 that it's not coming out of nowhere um
4:00 they I never want them to leave with the
4:01 impression that oh the doctor's just
4:03 doing this to me no there's actually a
4:06 very specific reason and a specific
4:07 thing we're trying to achieve and
4:08 everything we're trying to do so I I do
4:09 try to take the time to kind of explain
4:11 all those things and you know it's
4:12 always a lot of information for patient
4:15 to process and digest in one setting but
4:16 again in trying to paint the picture and
4:17 knowing that you're going to repeat
4:20 these things from me to all of our staff
4:22 from in the office as well as in the
4:23 procedure Arena they're going to hear
4:24 these things multiple times So
4:26 eventually you know it kind of builds up
4:28 over time it all starts with that kind
4:30 of more comprehensive explanation of [Music]
4:36 things you know the way I think of
4:37 referring Physicians is the same way I
4:40 think in the hospital as a consultant is
4:43 you know usually when um people are
4:44 reaching out to you it's because there's
4:48 a need um and as primary providers
4:49 there's a lot on the plate and a lot of
4:50 different movement parts and things they
4:54 have to manage and so we take that
4:56 responsibility um very seriously and we
4:58 want people to feel free to send patient
5:00 to us and know that we're going to guide
5:02 treatment from start to finish and even
5:03 if we're not doing the treating we're
5:04 getting them to the place that they need
5:07 to be um and so we want people to feel
5:09 that freedom and that levity of that
5:11 relieve that weight of just be able to s
5:12 in patient to us and just kind of take
5:14 care and handle of it so um we do take
5:18 that responsibility very seriously [Music]
