Dr. William Powers - HIV Specialist - Powers Family Medicine

08/29/2025

Dr. Powers is going to be out of the office until Thursday Sept 4th. He's gone back to North Carolina to spend some time with his Father and help him in his recovery from his accident. He's had a few setbacks, but he's still making progress.

Thanks for your understanding, the rest of the staff and Sommer/Dayna will be covering in his absence.

08/19/2025

Just a little transparency.

Obviously we're back from Sommer's wedding.

Yesterday when I got home, I took care of all of my portal messages. I didn't manage to get through all of the emails, but I got many of them done. I'm pretty behind on my genome reviews, those I do when I have free time and I haven't really had a lot.

After completing all of the tasks yesterday, this is today's inbox at the end of seeing patients at nearly 7:00 p.m.

Despite having zero portal messages last evening when I finished working, I now have another 50 portal messages, which if I complete one every 5 minutes, I may be done by about midnight if I stop to eat once and use the bathroom twice.

I'm doing the best I can to keep up with demand right now, but I simply cannot uphold my usual level of response times at this time. I'm sorry about that.

This of course only references the portal messages, and not the other 700 and something tasks that need to be completed as well. I appreciate your patience as I work through everything. I'm doing the best I can but it feels like I'm bailing out a ship that's sinking faster than I can bail it.

I suspect that next year I will not have as many people in the DPC program and certain patient contracts I will likely not be renewing. I hope that that isn't the case, but right now it seems like in order to preserve my own health that is going to be necessary.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. I'm really doing my best. I swear.

08/17/2025

Hello from Sommer's wedding to Mac in Traverse City!

Thanks for your patience with a little portal messaging lag so we can all enjoy the wedding together this weekend!

08/13/2025

Sommer is getting married this weekend up north and most of the staff will be there. Because of recent events, travel, vacations, calamities, and so on, there has been a bit of compression of time for many staff members.

I myself am working as best as I can today to catch up on messages, and genome reviews have sort of fallen lower on the totem pole of priority. They will get done, but I'm doing the best with the hours that I have while simultaneously seeing patients with a completely maxed out schedule everyday and with some evening add-ons as well.

This is not really an excuse, I'm just letting my patient population know and the patients who are patients of Dayna and Sommer that we are running behind our usual 48-hour response time for things, and I'm sorry about that. I'm doing the best I can. They are as well. We appreciate your understanding. There are only so many hours in the day and this has been a very busy time frame for all PFM staff!

08/08/2025

As everyone knows, the cats work hard at the office all week every week and have for 6 years. They have not been paid, and filed a complaint with the Michigan labor board and filed suit.

As part of their compensation settlement they get one box of 32oz temptations treats per week and this climbing tree among other reimbursements. I am legally mandated to admit that I did not issue them a W-2 form or wages for 6 years and am just now finally compensating them for their years of work.

I apologize to the cats for not previously recognizing their efforts to the practice, and for not fairly compensating them for their labor. I promise to do better in the future.

Guinness World Records gave me GWR #5 for this debacle though so that's cool!

Record-breaking felines from Michigan, USA, now have a record-breaking cat tree built into the luxury three-storey

07/29/2025

Coincidentally, our vascular and pixel lasers both broke down today and will be down until we can get a repair done in the next few weeks. We are waiting for the repairman to get us on the schedule.

Hair removal, IPL, and tattoo removal are still fine.

Unfortunately, scheduled patients for these procedures (pixel and vascular laser) will have to be rescheduled until the machine can be repaired.

07/29/2025

Dr Powers getting dunked!

07/29/2025

Fundraiser raised $1904 this year which was matched by Dr. Powers and so the Patient Assistant Fund now has $3808 in it to help prevent homelessness or provide critical support to our most vulnerable and indigent patients. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and those who donated time, prizes, or funds to help make the event a success this and every year!

Here are some early pictures, but I'll be posting the video of Dr Powers going into the dunk tank shortly! He got put in more than a few times! Feel free to add your pics from the event in the comments. =)

07/27/2025

Come on out to Powers Family Medicine from noon to 4:00 p.m. Sunday July 27th for our annual patient fundraiser!

Take a look at these cool prizes that I spent the past 2 months 3d printing! 😂

Such fidget!

07/25/2025

This Sunday in the PFM Parking Lot is the annual Patient Assistance Fundraiser! From 12-4 PM. This year will be even bigger than years prior! (Learn how to donate digitally at the end of this post!)

This fundraiser is used to raise funds for the patient assistance fund. This is a discretionary use fund we use to help out patients in times of need, be it to prevent homelessness, access medication, or other critical safety/health based needs. Our patient population is diverse, ranging from LGBTQ, Alt, Disabled, HIV+ and other demographics who at times need a little helping hand in life, and we like to be able to be there to offer it when needed.

Dr. Powers as always will match any donation made to the fund 1:1, so if you donate $20, he donates $20.

At the event, you can purchase event tickets to play games of chance and skill, such as organ toss or dart the virus! If you're successful, you can win prizes, like those pictured below, including custom PFM fidget spinner keychains and bracelets. We've also got raffles, a silent auction, artwork, and other surprises waiting for you as well with many kind donations having been offered by local businesses to support our community.

Of course, office mascot and Guinness World Record cat Fenrir Antares Powers will be present to take pictures with you and receive your pets!

But most of all, as is tradition, Dr. Powers will be in the dunk tank, facing down his fate as those with skillful arms plunge him into the icy waters below!

If you can't make it, please do share this event on your page to let people know about it! This event is where we gather most of the funds that we use to support our community until the fundraiser occurs again next year!

If you're unable to make it and would like to donate to the fundraiser efforts with either card or bank account, you can do so by donating at the following link, but please do list next to your name (Donation for Fundraiser) or it will go to your Patient account if you are a patient!

https://www.payerexpress.com/ebp/PFM/Login/Index

You can also use Zelle to make a donation, send it to doctorpowers@powersfamilymedicine.com (again, please comment this is a donation for the fundraiser)

07/18/2025

As a reminder, the office is on their annual office vacation that Dr. Powers takes us on every year. We're a few hours from Detroit tubing and canoeing from Thursday to Sunday July 20th.

Hopefully the DPC program is a success and next year we can afford to do an international trip like we did back in 2022, but we're still happy to take a brief break and go as a group on a little trip in Michigan too!

Thanks for your patience until we're back. We're having some team quality time!

07/04/2025

After loss and setback and defeat and failure, over and over again for the past 6 months...

I will take my small victories where I can get them.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/senate-drops-anti-trans-provisions-to-barely-pass-major-budget-bill-that-cuts-medicaid/

We will continue to be able to support our exceptionally large Medicaid population and all of those indigent people that depend on us for their essential care.

We're still going to continue to do so at a rather major financial loss, and it will soon probably be even worse than past years, but it's at least a survivable one for now thanks to the DPC members who allow us to operate in the red for those patients.

I may not agree with everything that my government does, nor, am I in any way remotely okay with our current situation as it is. But I am still proud to be American, and believe this is still the greatest country on earth, even if we stumble at times. I would prefer live nowhere else.

Happy Independence Day everyone. For now, the freedoms we enjoy by being citizens of this nation and the rights we have that ensure we can live our lives as we see fit remain mostly intact.

Happy 4th of July!

-Dr. Powers

Ps: Either drink, or launch fireworks. They are mutually exclusive activities. Like drinking and driving a car. Please don't inform me you're missing fingers come Monday morning. (It's happened!) Pyro responsibly! Don't launch a single firework unless you've got a fire extinguisher and a water hose ready to go! Not even a sparkler!

🎆 🎇 + 🍻 = 🏥 + 🔥 + 🚒

The Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the Senate by so little that the vice president had to go to the Senate to break the tie.