Your Life is Bigger Than Your Diagnosis
Concierge Medicine inNashville, Tennessee with William Conway, MD
Your first visit with me has a reason: what we internists call a chief complaint. I listen to what you tell-and observe what you do not tell me. I consider the many possible causes. We discuss. We decide together what is best for you. I hint at an understanding of your past-both spoken and unspoken. I communicate to you an optimism of many future birthdays. We share a faith that the best is yet to come.
William Conway, MD, FACP, FASAM
FACP — Primary Care Internal Medicine | FASAM — Addiction Medicine

The First Visit is Only the Beginning
Our 12th visit is more comfortable than our first visit. By our 24th visit, your life has changed. Your new business is prospering. You have used some of my insights from the Wall Street Journal. Time passes by our 48th visit. New chronic illnesses have begun, which we deal with together. I start a daily review of your Dexcom continuous glucose monitor while you adapt to taking two different insulins. By your 60th visit, your children have grown-going to work, or joining the Army, or going to an overpriced college a long way away. You experience pride mixed with loneliness as you adapt to being a different type of parent. Your spouse is plagued by perimenopause or experiencing significant erectile dysfunction. Both of you are transitioning to a new you. By your 80th visit, you have grandchildren, a Mom struggling to stay in a home that isn’t really safe, and a changing America that challenges you. By your 100th visit, you are finally interested in longevity. From your first visit to your last, we share the faith that the best is yet to come for you.
Time is Everything
Today’s American healthcare offers you a richness of choices. Excellent hospitals and specialists- driven by professional excellence married to consumer sovereignty- are available to you, both close and far away. You have choices. For your parents, or perhaps grandparents, their medical care was often quite different. Many had a family doctor who knew them, their kin, and their world. Their family doctor had time for them-time shared over the years. Their family doctor became their confidant-their companion in struggle. Their relationship with their doctor was special and treasured-both by them and their doctor. Your parents or grandparents did not have the wealth of treatments, specialists, or hospitals that you have. Was their relationship to their doctor an archaic of the past?
Times change. You have the complexity required to deliver the extraordinary medical care now available. You have systems to deal with. Your choices will be limited by your circumstances. Multiple entities will affect your range of real choices. You have acute care, which your parents did not.
Time over months to years with the same generalist physician- the family physician, general internist, or pediatrician- is not automatic today. Your life! Your Choice!
Knowing You
Knowing You occurs in real time. With catastrophic illness, your intensivist may learn your fears and your preferences in a very compressed time- shaped by a life-altering illness. Your oncologist has the opportunity to know you over a longer period of time.
I operate over a longer time frame. For those patients who remain with me over years to decades, I learn them well. They learn me well. On every visit, I am always thinking about how to increase your longevity- more years of good life.
Knowing Me

Concierge Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine Services in Nashville

Who We Serve in Concierge Primary Care Medicine in Nashville
Adults managing chronic medical illnesses
Patients seeking care from one physician over time
Patients focused on longevity
Professionals and Business Owners
The Mature Woman in Transition
Vignettes about Our Patients
We have many women in practice who work in the trades. Their dedication to building Nashville while caring for their families inspires me. Each of them reminds me of my mother who did all the home repairs in our home that were required, after she completed a day teaching business office education in our local public high school.
My grandfather worked in Detroit during the depression while supporting his family of fifteen in Paducah, Kentucky. We have many men in the trades who do essential work in building Nashville and keeping it running. Each visit is an opportunity to focus upon strength, durability and long term health.
Medicine 3.0, as associated with Dr. Peter Attia, is a type of healthy aging. I spent several years early in my career developing a Center for Independent Living to help people remain in their homes as they grew older. I spent time in England studying the English home care system. My mother, at the end of life, lived with me until she died.
The care of aging parents can be quite a challenge. As an experienced geriatric physician in Nashville, Dr. Conway can provide 'healthy aging' including for the very old.
Our Patients Say
These are just a few of the reviews you’ll find on Google from patients who have stayed with Dr. Conway for years, many for over a decade.
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