The Spotlight Series in Tennessee
Getting older in West Tennessee means dealing with people you did not choose: a Medicare plan, a nurse practitioner, a home care agency, a surgeon. The Spotlight Series is Dr. Mike Chua sitting down with those people, on camera, and asking the questions patients and families ask us in the clinic. Five conversations so far, all free to watch.
Five conversations, five people worth knowing.
Each episode is one guest, one subject, and roughly the length of a drive across town. Dr. Mike Chua hosts, and the guests are people our patients and their families end up dealing with anyway: a Medicare broker, a nurse practitioner, an in-home care agency, a physician running a cryotherapy clinic, and a surgeon who treats bone tumors. Every episode is on video and free. Pick the one that matches whatever you are currently trying to figure out.
Leslee Bibb and Ryan Myracle
Comfort Keepers on what in-home help really covers, what long-term care insurance pays for, and why families wait too long to ask.
Ronnie Ragan
Original Medicare, Advantage plans and supplements, sorted out by a Jackson broker who teaches free classes on the difference.
Dr. Ginger Holt
An orthopedic oncologist on bone tumors, custom implants, and why the therapist after surgery matters as much as the surgeon.
Dr. Kellie Wilding
Whole-body and targeted cryotherapy, inflammation, and what a session is actually like, described by the physician who runs it.
Deb Leggett
Managing diabetes with a family nurse practitioner: A1c, screening, glucose monitors, and the symptoms that arrive late.
Why a physical therapy clinic in Tennessee runs an interview show.
Because most of what worries our patients happens outside our building. The Medicare plan that will not cover the visits. The blood sugar nobody explained properly. The parent who needs help at home but will not accept a stranger in the kitchen. Our therapists cannot fix any of that, and pretending otherwise wastes everyone's time. What we can do is find the people in West Tennessee who handle it every day, put a camera in front of them, and ask the plain questions on your behalf. No sales pitch, no script, and nothing you have to sign up for. Watch the ones that apply to you, ignore the rest, and bring your questions to your next visit.
The series is aimed at two people at once: the 72-year-old trying to decide something, and the adult daughter doing the research at eleven at night. Neither of you needs a lecture. You need to hear a real person answer a real question in plain words, and to know that the person is here in West Tennessee rather than in a call center. Dr. Chua closes most episodes with the same four ideas: find people who bring out the best in you, take action, share what helped, and then teach it to somebody else. That last one is the whole reason these get filmed.