Winter 2020 Faulkner Lifestyle

medical profile
Kenneth Murphy, MD, FACS, DABS
Doctor of Medicine; owner/operator of the Murphy Clinic
Where do you work/practice and where is it located?
The Murphy Clinic, 719 Front St., Conway – a medical
cannabis certification clinic.
When did you begin practicing/working in Faulkner
County? I had a General Surgery practice 1987-2009 in
Conway. Since then I have held Medical Director, Physician
Advisor, Physician Assessor and Chief Medical Officer
positions with various companies.
Where did you receive your education? Undergraduate,
UA Fayetteville; medical school, UAMS (MD graduate). I’ve
worked in almost every area of healthcare, including Public
Healthcare and have a broad knowledge of the healthcare
system.
Any board certifications? Diplomate of the American
Board of Surgery (DABS). Fellow of the American College
of Surgeons (FACS). Member of the American Association
for Physician Leadership.
Tell us more about Medical Cannabis and your clinic. Pattie
and I opened the Murphy Clinic last spring after much thought
and research. Our 40+ years in healthcare (she is a Registered
Nurse Practitioner) have shown us that there are many unmet
needs in the field. One of them is symptom relief.
Our patients are people with chronic pain, PTSD, severe
arthritis, neuropathy, fibromyalgia and other conditions for
which traditional treatments involve medications – often
opiates – that are less-than-successful and often have undesirable
effects. They are folks who want desperately to enjoy more
normal days doing yard work, playing with grandkids, working
at a job and the like; many just want to get out of the house for
a change and to not be incapacitated by their conditions.
Since it appears that using cannabis for medical conditions is
here to stay, we decided to bring our practice philosophy to
this area. Medically, we evaluate each patient carefully to be
sure that medical issues and needs are legitimate and meet
Arkansas law standards, and that cannabis will be one of the
tools of treatment and not a recreational thing.
We believe in personal, friendly and complete care for each of
our patients and that service is a privilege at which we excel.
Medical care today has become a field where answering
machine recordings, long waits for appointments, hurried
visits and unanswered questions have become standard; we
are “old school” and are here to provide answers, information
and that “down-home style of care” to people in our living
area and beyond, while trying to dispel some of the misunderstandings
about medical cannabis in Arkansas.
The medical cannabis landscape here will surely change in
the coming years as new laws are passed and larger amounts
of true scientific research become available, and the Murphy
Clinic will be here to help educate during the changes.
When you call the Murphy Clinic you will get a real person
who will answer your questions or find the answers to them;
we want every patient to walk out of the door feeling more
hopeful than when they walked in, and believing that they
have a new and dependable resource they can count on.
CONNECT
719 Front St., Conway
501-766-4768 (4POT)
DrMurphyClinic.com
40 faulkner lifestyle | winter 2020