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Hello, this is Karen Nichol, Family Nurse Practitioner and you are listening to Ichi and Bichi, a podcast that provides answers to your many unanswered health questions.

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I am so happy to have with me today my good friend and brilliant journalist David Allen.

He has been kind enough to join while we are on vacation in beautiful Annamaria Island, Florida.

Lovely weather. We're not in that lovely weather. Are we David? We're inside.

We are. We're inside right now, but the lovely weather was the bribe and I took it to be with you today to talk about some important subjects.

Absolutely. We have talked often on over the years about medicine, the state of medicine in the U.S. today and you pointed out to me a blog from the American Academy of Family Physicians website about appointment wait times.

Yes, and it caught my eye because in talking with a lot of friends, they mentioned how long it took to get in to see not just their primary care physician, but also to see a specialist.

And I thought this would be a good topic for us to talk about because what's the story behind those numbers and those statistics and is there one and what is it more importantly for people who are listening to be able to get some good information from.

And I think we are seeing what those numbers are suggesting and what do you think?

I absolutely agree with you and it's interesting in that blog that they they cite the all the statistics, but they don't really explain in that blog or theorize in that blog why this is happening.

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