Transcript of conference held at Jan 28, 2026 in room first_test@conference.miaiconvo.com Initial people present at 6:06:08 PM: Mallory Joseph - Doctor Kate-Patient Transcript, started at 6:06:08 PM: ________________________________________________________________________________ <6:06:08 PM> Kate-Patient joined the conference <6:06:08 PM> Joseph - Doctor joined the conference <6:06:08 PM> Mallory joined the conference <6:06:13 PM> Joseph - Doctor: hi Kate thanks for coming in today can you tell me a little bit about what brings you back in <6:06:17 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay well do you have any concerns at this time <6:06:19 PM> Kate-Patient: I'm just here like for just to check up just to check and make sure things are going well <6:06:27 PM> Kate-Patient: I'm not really know just want to make sure I'm healthy <6:06:29 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay good and I guess I'm just gonna run through a few quick questions for you <6:06:35 PM> Kate-Patient: nope <6:06:39 PM> Joseph - Doctor: uh no concerns for your health <6:06:42 PM> Joseph - Doctor: can you tell me <6:06:42 PM> Joseph - Doctor: no okay <6:06:47 PM> Kate-Patient: sure um <6:06:47 PM> Joseph - Doctor: little bit about just what your average day looks like <6:06:51 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:06:54 PM> Kate-Patient: so work full-time I'm a medical assistant at a local doctor's office <6:07:03 PM> Kate-Patient: um <6:07:06 PM> Kate-Patient: so I work all day and then I go and I pick up my son and go home and make dinner <6:07:14 PM> Kate-Patient: and then we kind of just hang out and relax and do it all again the next day <6:07:18 PM> Kate-Patient: know <6:07:19 PM> Joseph - Doctor: when you're not working like on the do you work on the weekends <6:07:23 PM> Joseph - Doctor: can you tell me about what happened what you do on the weekends <6:07:26 PM> Kate-Patient: oh maybe get together with friends <6:07:32 PM> Kate-Patient: you know I like to go for walks <6:07:34 PM> Kate-Patient: um sit down have a few beers <6:07:35 PM> Joseph - Doctor: uh and when you say a few beers what do you mean by that <6:07:46 PM> Kate-Patient: like I don't know I don't always count I guess it could be <6:07:52 PM> Kate-Patient: anywhere from three to <6:07:56 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:07:57 PM> Kate-Patient: six or eight beers <6:08:00 PM> Kate-Patient: here it's probably both days <6:08:02 PM> Joseph - Doctor: and is that both days of the weekends how many days are you having <6:08:07 PM> Joseph - Doctor: here <6:08:09 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:08:10 PM> Joseph - Doctor: and then with the beard do you use any other forms of alcohol besides beer <6:08:13 PM> Kate-Patient: yeah sometimes might have like margarita <6:08:23 PM> Kate-Patient: glass of wine <6:08:24 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:08:28 PM> Joseph - Doctor: how often would you have a margarita or wine <6:08:28 PM> Kate-Patient: it depends on whether I'm home or out with friends I'd say maybe a couple margaritas once a weekend <6:08:46 PM> Kate-Patient: maybe a few glasses of wine if I'm home <6:08:49 PM> Joseph - Doctor: um and is there a particular reason you like having the beer Margaret Rita's wine <6:08:52 PM> Kate-Patient: it's just fun you know kind of helps me relax and you know whenever you're with friends it's just makes it more of a good time <6:09:05 PM> Joseph - Doctor: Tim oh with the alcohol use have you <6:09:09 PM> Kate-Patient: um <6:09:14 PM> Joseph - Doctor: ever had alcohol and then went to drive <6:09:18 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:09:21 PM> Kate-Patient: yeah like maybe if I've had a couple margaritas out at a restaurant all still drive home <6:09:28 PM> Joseph - Doctor: a does that concern you when you drive home after a few drinks <6:09:36 PM> Joseph - Doctor: oh can you explain just what's not concerning about that <6:09:38 PM> Kate-Patient: I mean I don't really feel impaired I always make home okay <6:09:41 PM> Joseph - Doctor: has there ever been a time where you felt more impaired when you've been behind the wheel <6:09:54 PM> Kate-Patient: um no I wouldn't say <6:10:00 PM> Kate-Patient: so <6:10:01 PM> Joseph - Doctor: uh with <6:10:05 PM> Joseph - Doctor: how do you see your future with your alcohol use is it something that you're concerned about <6:10:14 PM> Joseph - Doctor: has your has your family ever talked to you about alcohol use before <6:10:24 PM> Kate-Patient: hello my friends drink about the same amount as I do <6:10:29 PM> Kate-Patient: so they've never really seemed <6:10:33 PM> Kate-Patient: earned my mom did say something to me <6:10:35 PM> Joseph - Doctor: yeah and what do you think your mom was concerned about <6:10:41 PM> Kate-Patient: oh well she only will have like a glass of wine like I don't know on special occasions she doesn't really drink at all so <6:10:52 PM> Kate-Patient: know that she just doesn't seem like much of a drinker <6:10:53 PM> Joseph - Doctor: have you ever been concerned with your drinking <6:11:00 PM> Kate-Patient: no I mean it's kind of expensive sometimes <6:11:05 PM> Joseph - Doctor: or just <6:11:07 PM> Joseph - Doctor: are experience What would <6:11:08 PM> Kate-Patient: um they probably wouldn't be as fun you know if I go out with my friends and they're having drinks and I don't <6:11:10 PM> Joseph - Doctor: or weekends look like if you weren't drinking <6:11:22 PM> Joseph - Doctor: do you feel that your friends want you to drink with them <6:11:25 PM> Kate-Patient: nessus <6:11:28 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:11:34 PM> Joseph - Doctor: with your dream do you feel as if you need to drink with your friends <6:11:36 PM> Kate-Patient: I'm sorry you say that again <6:11:41 PM> Joseph - Doctor: do you feel as if you should be drinking with your friends when they're out as well <6:11:45 PM> Kate-Patient: do I feel like I should be no I just prefer to <6:11:47 PM> Joseph - Doctor: oh <6:11:50 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:11:54 PM> Joseph - Doctor: oh <6:11:56 PM> Joseph - Doctor: is have you ever thought about <6:11:59 PM> Joseph - Doctor: not drinking in the past or not drinking as much during the weekends <6:12:09 PM> Kate-Patient: um yeah I guess sometimes on the weekends I feel like maybe I could cut back <6:12:12 PM> Joseph - Doctor: yeah <6:12:17 PM> Joseph - Doctor: feel that you're drinking sometimes in packs your family <6:12:17 PM> Kate-Patient: little <6:12:22 PM> Kate-Patient: um sometimes on the weekends if maybe I have like a couple more beers and I normally would I'm not as motivated to get up and read my son his bedtime story and stuff like <6:12:42 PM> Joseph - Doctor: with <6:12:46 PM> Joseph - Doctor: regarding just <6:12:49 PM> Kate-Patient: yeah I don't like it when it affects my relationship with my son so I don't really let it happen all that often but I think I'd probably put myself at like maybe two or three <6:12:50 PM> Joseph - Doctor: oh that possible change uh with not being able to read bedtime stories have you ever <6:12:58 PM> Joseph - Doctor: consider yourself on like a scale one to ten would How likely would you be to cut back on drinking alcohol <6:13:06 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:13:18 PM> Joseph - Doctor: yeah <6:13:25 PM> Joseph - Doctor: unless last question I had for you is just what's your ideal outcome with just the alcohol use <6:13:32 PM> Joseph - Doctor: okay <6:13:33 PM> Kate-Patient: oh just to have a good <6:13:37 PM> Joseph - Doctor: thank you for taking the time to talk to me Kate <6:13:37 PM> Joseph - Doctor: I think <6:13:41 PM> Joseph - Doctor: would just <6:13:43 PM> Joseph - Doctor: let's continue with the rest of the interview and just make sure everything else is healthy for you okay <6:13:48 PM> Kate-Patient: okay ________________________________________________________________________________ End of transcript at Jan 28, 2026, 6:13:57 PM