Dr. Smith DirectCare

10/30/2025

I’m very excited to announce the launch of eDoc Complete Care. Following over 30 years of providing online medical information through eDocAmerica, we now offer comprehensive virtual health care. We are initiating this service in Arkansas, but will be adding additional states soon.

Our service provides primary medical care with immediate access to your physician through messaging, texting, or cell phone, refill of existing prescriptions, notes to your employer after work absence, and referral to specialists when needed for just $35.00/month. For an additional $40.00 per visit, we offer video visits for acute assessment, including new prescriptions or referral for lab work or x rays.

Please take a close look at the web site and either join us or send a link to a friend or relative who may be interested.

Discover expert-led care for individuals and employers with a platform designed for accessible, secure, and convenient health and wellness experiences.

08/11/2025

E Doc America has just launched a new program, E Doc Complete Care, available to both businesses and invididuals. This is a virtual primary care practice for Arkansans with access to specialty services. Membership allows prescription refills, zoom visits, referrals, preventive care and more.

Check it out!

Welcome to eDocCompleteCare, a unique service that offers primary care video visits, prescription refills or new prescriptions, referrals, online text messaging, lab tests, x-rays and the ability to send and receive messages from specialists, including:

08/01/2025

Many patients who are uninsured or whose insurance has lapsed find that direct primary care such as Dr Smith Direct Care offers an affordable, attractive option that covers many of their health care needs such as preventive care, prescriptions, and management of their medical conditions. I am happy that I can be available to many of you for this circumstance.

07/26/2025

It’s been awhile since I posted anything here. One of my recent new patients suggested I “update” the page, so I’ll start by giving a short update on the state of things:

My two wonderful daughters, Amber and Rachael, have moved on to new horizons. Rachael gave birth to her third child about a year ago and named her after my dear, deceased son Jordan. She is now a busy mother of 3 and is enjoying her role immensely.

Amber advanced her education and got a masters in mental health care and counseling and is currently serving as inpatient consultant/provider at Baptist Medical Center.

I miss the two of them greatly but made a decision to forge ahead with managing my practice on my own and, so far, it seems to be going well. Nothing has fundamentally changed in the practice but patients are being asked to use Quest Labs to get blood drawn for tests. Quest is connected to my medical records for ease in transferring lab reports.

I also made a decision to refer all of my “pain management” patients to providers who are doing this job full time, as it was difficult to provide what they need with my limited practice staffing arrangement.

In the meantime, we have just about completed an overhaul of our e Doc company to a revamped e Doc Complete Care, which provides zoom visit and prescription services in addition to the other benefits that e Doc has alway provided.

I still offer the same personalized availability that I have alway provided. People ask me how much longer I’m going to “do this” and I answer: “I don’t know, I’m in good health and enjoy what I do, so currently I have no plans to stop”.

So, if you want to see someone who is available, affordable, and affable (as well as competent and experienced), give us a call.

Thanks to James for suggesting I do an “update”.

CWS
Dr Smith Direct Care

05/26/2024

For anyone living in Arkansas, you can get affordable access to online care, consultations, zoom visits for acute problems, annual wellness Zoom visits, prescriptions, lab or x ray orders, work notes and more. Check this out:

Welcome to eDoc Complete Care, a unique service that offers primary care video visits, prescription refills or new prescriptions, referrals, online text messaging, lab tests, x-rays and the ability to send and receive messages from specialists, including:

07/23/2022

Celebrating Jordan’s 38th birthday. What an uplifting influence he’s had on so many through the years. Happy Birthday Jordan.

12/18/2021

As we approach Christmas next week, and as the end of the year draws near, it is a time to post reflections and remembrances. It has been an odd and sometimes not-so-great year, but each day remains welcome (since I have fewer and fewer of them as time marches on). Thankfully, in 2021, made it through a hip replacement, followed by an infection, requiring a revision and finally resolution and a return to mobility. Further, I weathered a rare form of Leukemia (Hairy Cell), which responded well to treatment and, I believe, is in a state of remission. I’ll find out more when I return to MD Anderson in January for follow up.

We are starting to experience the unwelcome arrival of yet another Coronovirus variant, the Omicrom version. This one seems to spread faster, but may lead to somewhat milder clinical disease—I hope that continues to be the case. Clearly, getting vaccinated, and receiving a booster after 6 months, is important in stemming the tide of this wave of tragic illness. It is beyond me why those of you out there who haven’t done so continue to resist this life saving immunization. We have tamed smallpox, polio, and many other dreaded illnesses through vaccines just like this one and, yet, there seems to be singular resistance Covid vaccine that wasn’t present for these others. Why is that? My only explanation seems to be some weird political connection or orientation that has led to a barrage of misinformation and fear and a sense that the “federal government is foisting this upon us”. At any rate, I hope you’ll all change your minds and get vaccinated before its too late. One only has to look at colleagues and weary burned out staff at institutions along with heartbroken family members of intubated or dying patients to realize how foolish it is to continue to refuse to get vaccinated. If you haven’t seen the move “The First Wave”, I highly recommend that you watch it! You may never be the same afterwards, at least in respect to how you view the effects of the Pandemic.

Enough rambling, though…

Thanks to my patients at Dr. Smith Direct Care for your continued confidence in me as your physician. I am always honored and humbled by that.

Here’s hoping that 2022 brings an end to the Pandemic and that it is a (more) joyful year that this one was.

Merry Christmas to you from Dr. Smith Direct Care.

09/30/2021

If you are 65 and older, have a health condition that. Increases your risk, or are a health care worker, and if you received the Pfizer vaccine for Covid, you are eligible for a booster.

I urge you to get one.

And, while you’re at it, get your flu shot!

09/15/2021

Dr. Smith is an established leader in the field of Family Medicine, having spent a career as Faculty and Associate Dean at UAMS. He continues to teach in the outpatient clinic every Wednesday afternoon.

His practice specializes in personal attention to your health care needs and availability (in office, through texting, phone calls, or e mailing) to answer your every health question or attend to your health needs. In addition, he will coordinate your care, making referrals whenever needed and incorporate those suggestions into his care for you.

If you would like this type of primary care, make an appointment to come and see him. If you have other questions, please give us a call!

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