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Have you heard of the Detroit-based Home Health Care Today Show? If you’re looking to hear from health professionals about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, this is the show for you.

Our very own Dr. Miller was recently featured on HHCTS. For more insight, you can watch the video below and read the unofficial transcript.

What is the Home Health Care Today Show?

The Home Health Care Today show is a Detroit-based podcast that aims to educate and engage the community around health and wellness. Some of these topics include maternal healthcare, cardiovascular care, and vein care.

Hosted by Dr. Cleamon Moorer Jr., the podcast originated in 2021 and currently has over forty episodes. It was recognized by the Service Industry Advertising Awards Committee as a Gold Award Podcast in 2022.

Episodes air bi-weekly at 10:00 AM on Saturdays on WMYD – TV 20 Detroit. They're also available on YouTube.

Who Is the Host of the Home Health Care Today Show?

The host of the Home Health Care Today Show is Dr. Cleamon Moorer Jr. He has earned multiple advanced degrees in management and organizational behavior.

Based on his personal experiences, he works closely with individuals and families facing stress, trauma, and relationship challenges.

During this time, he noticed that many emotional and mental health struggles were closely tied to financial pressure. Seeing how money problems affected people, the direction of his future work took hold.

As his career developed, Dr. Moorer began focusing more on financial education alongside mental health. He expanded beyond current programs and created ones that teach financial literacy, credit improvement, and wealth-building strategies.

This has become central to his mission of helping people build stronger financial futures while also improving their overall well-being.

“Vein Health: What 40 Million Americans Need to Know: Home Health Care Today Show” — Video Transcript

Dr. Cleamon Moorer: Welcome to the Home Health Care Today Show and Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you out there. All of the viewers as well as listeners.

Today’s topic is a matter of the heart, but it’s veins, right? Cardiovascular Professional Week.

We have the distinguished pleasure and honor of having Dr. Jeffrey H. Miller, MD, founder and CEO of Miller Vein.

Prior to me introducing Dr. Miller, let’s just look at a stat as related to your veins and cardiovascular health. Our hearts beat about 100,000 times a day, pumping blood throughout 60,000 miles of blood vessels, arteries, and veins. When any part of the system breaks down, your whole body fills it.

This Cardiovascular Professionals Week, we’re talking about the often-overlooked half of that equation, your veins.

Now, as for our distinguished guest, Dr. Miller. Dr. Miller was born and raised in Detroit. He earned his medical degree with high distinction. Top 5% of his class from Wayne State University School of Medicine, a BS (Bachelor of Science) with high honor from Michigan State University, and he is a board-certified interventional radiologist and phlebologist, which is a vein specialist. He’s a diplomat of the American Board of Radiology and National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine. He’s one of Michigan’s first physicians to perform minimally invasive venous treatment procedures.

He left a twelve-year hospital position to open up Miller Vein. Starting with one employee, now Miller Vein operates six locations across Metro Detroit. Locations include the city of Novi, Troy, Dearborn, St. Clair Shores, Macomb Township, and Auburn Hills with a team of board-certified specialists.

He was named to Hour Detroit’s Top Doc multiple times. Corp! Magazine’s Entrepreneur of Distinction, Crain’s Detroit Best Places to Work (one of those Miller Vein clinics), Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces, and six Detroit Free Press Best of Best Awards, including best vascular clinic for two consecutive years. He’s cared for over 20,000 patients and partners with the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries for free vein clinics.

Married since 2000. He’s a father of two daughters and he’s coached their softball teams for about seven years. I can go on and on about Dr. Miller here. Softball teams for seven years. A marathon runner who recently ran the Detroit Free Press Marathon with his daughter, Rachel. Hey Dr. Miller, welcome to the Home Health.

Dr. Jeffrey Miller: Thank you for having me.

Dr. Moorer: Alright Doc. Born and raised in the D. Educated at Michigan State and Wayne. What does it mean, man, to build a healthcare practice, six locations right here at the crib, right here in your hometown, man?

Dr. Miller: Yeah. Born and raised here. I’m not going anywhere. Although I do plan on getting Miller Vein big enough that we’re going to export it to other states. But no, I’m not going anywhere. You know, my dad taught at Detroit Southwestern High School for a boatload of years.

Dr. Moorer: Yeah.

Dr. Miller: Back when Perry, Coach Perry Watson, I don’t know if you remember him.

Dr. Moorer: Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. Miller: I actually even shot free throws with Antoine Joubert.

Dr. Moorer: No way.

Dr. Miller: So anyway, my roots are here. I’m staying here. I love it. I love everything. I love the people, but I will say I don’t necessarily love the winter.

Dr. Moorer: I get it, man. I get it, man. So, you can trust Dr. Jeffrey Miller here in our conversation, folks. So, on a more serious note, now that we got our background out of the way here with Dr. Miller, the hidden epidemic and as we talk about veins and vein health. So varicose veins and spider veins, most folks' kind of think it’s a cosmetic thing, right, Doc? Let’s dig a little bit deeper. You treat it as a medical condition. How can our viewers and our listeners understand venous insufficiency and what’s really going on, and why does it matter to your overall health?

Dr. Miller: You know what I love to say is leg pains, think veins. Leg pains, think veins. And that’s because vein disease is such a common cause of all kinds of symptoms. Now, the most common symptoms, a company actually trademarked the symptoms if you can believe that, but I digress.

Dr. Moorer: Yes, sir.

Dr. Miller: They’re called the HASTY symptoms. Heaviness, aching, swelling, throbbing, and itching. Those are the most common causes of chronic vein disease. It's also a really common cause of restless leg syndrome.

Dr. Moorer: Yes, yes.

Dr. Miller: But it’s a treatable cause. And so, I always tell physicians or anybody that’ll listen to me, you know, if you have restless leg syndrome before you go on those medications, that can have some complications. Get a vein workup because it is common enough and it’s a treatable condition.

Dr. Moorer: Wow, Doc. Let’s go over it one more time there. Heaviness of the legs, right? Aching. Swelling. What’s the T for?

Dr. Miller: Throbbing.

Dr. Moorer: Throbbing. Not tingling, throbbing,

Dr. Miller: Throbbing.

Dr. Moorer: And then the itching

Dr. Miller: Important thing to keep in mind. Vein disease untreated will go on to skin changes where the skin becomes brown and leathery.

Dr. Moorer: Yep, absolutely.

Dr. Miller: Further down the line, a leg ulcer. And those hurt. So again, we can prevent people from going that far down the road.

Dr. Moorer: Absolutely Doc. So yeah, it’s about prevention. The Home Health Care Today Show, we’re a lifestyle show. The more that we could create that sense of knowledge and education about various diagnoses, the better. With that being said Doc, who’s at risk or who’s at greater risk?

Dr. Miller: Four big risk factors.

Dr. Moorer: Okay, let’s do it.

Dr. Miller: Number one, hereditary. We know it runs in families. If both parents are affected, you’re talking 90% chance their kids are going to have varicose veins. Age. We were just talking about aging a second ago.

Dr. Moorer: A little bit. Yeah, we were.

Dr. Miller: You know, as we age, things get weak, including our veins. And our veins have these little one-way valves. When the vein becomes weak, the valves don't work. And veins are supposed to carry blood upward. If they’re not carrying blood upward, blood refluxes, pools in the leg, and so that’s another common cause. Being female is a risk and then pregnancy is a huge risk. Each subsequent pregnancy increases the risk further.

Dr. Moorer: Wow. Okay. Four factors, some of which are mitigable to an extent. We all have to age, right? Hereditary maybe not as mitigable there. As we talk about the blood flow, which is extremely important. And then you talk about pregnancy as one of those factors. But let’s drive back to the cardiovascular connection where we understand anatomy to an extent. But for listeners and viewers out there that are like, “All right, I got the whole arteries versus veins, you know, from a physiology class.” and some did not have physiology. So, let’s make that, that’s a class that if you can waive it, students out there, don’t waive the cardiovascular class as related to anatomy or physiology. Dive in. We need a healthy staff of cardiovascular professionals out there for the future. But Doc, what is that connection? Cardiovascular connection. Let's do it.

Dr. Miller: I like to put it together as, okay, obviously, the heart's at the center.

Dr. Moorer: Yes, it is. Yeah.

Dr. Miller: And then we've got to consider four other things that are very interrelated. Arteries are going to carry blood to your extremities to the organs. Need those. Veins are going to carry blood back from the extremities, back from the organs, back to the heart. But then there's two things that are also in that mix. It's all one big system, which would be skin and the lymphatics.

Dr. Moorer: Yes.

Dr. Miller: So, what do the lymphatics do? They're these tiny tubes that carry fluid from our extremities and dump the fluid into the veins. If the veins are messed up, the lymphatics are messed up.

Dr: Moorer: Got it. Got it.

Dr. Miller: And then what about skin? Well, if the fluid builds up under the skin, skin doesn't get the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It breaks down and then you get an ulcer.

Dr. Moorer: Got it, Doc. So, we're going to keep it moving. We're going to try to keep our viewers, our listeners as active as they can be, and we dive deeper into this vein health, right? I got a home health community out there. I got some folks that are more sedentary due to other diagnoses, right? We have some folks that unfortunately have limited mobility. How can we, you know, assist this group that says, "Doc, it all sounds good, but I got chronic pain, arthritis; I can't move as much." You know, what can we do and how can we help those folks?

Dr. Miller: You know, some of them can't get up and walk at all. But if you can get up and walk, walk. Any movement is going to help. Even if you're sitting, if you're sitting, pump your foot back and forth. Get your calf muscles pumping. You know, the calf muscles are actually responsible for getting more blood out of your legs than any other muscle. You know, we've got these big thigh muscles. Those don't squeeze the blood out.

It's the calf muscles because all those veins interdigitate between all the muscle fibers. So, when you squeeze that calf muscle, you're going to get fluid. You're going to get blood out of the legs. So, those are those that's really important. You know everybody knows we got to eat right because obesity also is a risk factor for vein disease. Obesity makes everything worse. So, you know the better you can eat the more you can move. That's the bit, those are the big two.

Dr. Moorer: Oh, got it doc. So better eating, better movement out there folks. Restless legs. We hear about that a lot. So, um, you know, going to check on folks and they're like, they're just heavy and I don't know what's going on. And doc, I, you know, we don't do

medical advice on our show. We always recommend individuals that are suffering from any health complications to reach out to your primary care physician. If it is indeed an emergency, always call 911. And if there's an injury, be sure to get to an urgent care facility in event that there is an injury that doesn't require going to the ER. But for folks just general living and saying, "Man, my legs are restless." Not

watching the Home Health Care Today Show because you're bouncing your legs in place watching the show if you can. But for restless legs, stop movement, diet, good exercise. What else can you do about it?

Dr. Miller: Well, then you got to get into the doctor, you know, because we do a duplex venous ultrasound.

Dr: Moorer: Got it.

Dr. Miller: And that tells us are the veins working? That identifies leaky valves. So, if a patient has restless leg syndrome and has venous reflux, I will tell you that 70 to 80% of those patients if they get treatment will feel better.

Dr. Moorer: Absolutely.

Dr. Miller: And if they were on medications for restless legs, they might be able to completely stop taking them.

Dr. Moorer: Okay. Now you all heard that. Now in the event that legs are restless getting in to a physician, getting in to see Dr. Miller at one of the six locations to get that assessment and not just say, "Well, I guess it'll go away on its own. Oh, I think it's sciatica or I think it's arthritis." You don't have to necessarily self-diagnose. Trained experts and professionals who care deeply about your cardiovascular health and wellness are ready to assist. We're headed to a commercial. When we get back, we're going to dive deeper into not only vein health, but we'll learn a lot more about Dr. Miller and his passion for this work in our community. Stay tuned.

Dr. Miller: Hi there. I'm Jeffrey Miller, Dr. Miller, the Miller of Miller vein. You know, one thing that people don't realize is that patients that have varicose veins actually have quality of life scores that are similar to patients that have had prior heart attacks, prior

stroke, prior hip fracture. Of course, I'm not saying that varicose veins are an emergency, but I am saying that varicose veins really cause a ton of symptoms. So, if you have leg pains, think veins.

Dr. Moorer: Welcome back to the Home Health Care Show. Yes, it's Cardiovascular Professionals Week, and we have none other than Dr. Jeffrey Miller of Miller Vein. We got off into some really good topics in the first half of our episode, but now we're back at it. I want to dive a little deeper here and talk about Dr. Miller from the perspective of being an innovator as well as an entrepreneur and being very compassionate about care. So, Doc, working in the hospital for about 12 years and then saying, you know what, I'm going to make the leap and run my own practice starting with one employee, the soul “prneur”. And let's talk about that. What drove you to make that leap and say I'm going to do this?

Dr. Miller: You know, for me, every step in my journey has I feel like it's always just presented itself to me. It was all by accident. 1999, the very first device gets FDA approval to treat the underlying cause of varicose veins. So, it was called radio frequency ablation. It was the venous closure device.

Dr. Moorer: Got it. Okay. Yes.

Dr. Miller: Now, you got to understand my interventional team and I, we would always ask for great equipment. But the equipment that we would ask for was expensive. But we asked them for this radio frequency device and the fact that it was only $30,000, which to them is nothing when you're asking for multi-million-dollar pieces of equipment. They got us the piece of equipment. There we go. So, we started treating veins. The first generation of device was kind of clunky. I had four other colleagues that were interventional radiologists. So, there's five of us. That clunky device, nobody liked it. They were upset. They didn't like doing those procedures. So, because of that, I guess I'm pretty patient. I didn't mind it. And so, I started doing all the vein patients, all of them. And then the next thing you know, the devices got better. Well, by that time I'm the vein guy. So, I keep doing veins. I'm enjoying it. I didn't have to be as smart as you to realize that this didn't belong in the hospital setting. You know, we had patients that were coming in for these elective procedures. And they're waiting two, three hours because we're doing emergency cases that are bumping the elective cases. So, I you know, I tried I was in a very large radiology group. Worked with a lot of great people that I loved. But they didn't see things the same way as I did. I really wanted them to help me. And we were going to open up a vein clinic across the street. We would see all our patients, blah blah blah. And after trying to convince my group for like five years to do this. Well, my wife got sick and tired of me complaining, and she says, "Why don't you just do it yourself?" So, I quit and I did it myself and here we are almost 20 years later.

Dr. Moorer: Love it. I love it. Dr. Miller. So, Dr. Miller as you all could tell from that

that feedback there that response showed that he's an innovator and a risk taker as well as a clinician so he's a medical doctor that has taken innovation and business to that that next level uh Dr. Miller and I, we're also, we were noted in Crain’s, Detroit business, Notable Leaders in Healthcare Technology 2025 for the work that we're doing out here in the world, right? Similar to that clunky equipment in the vein area, we understand going to an eye doctor could be a very clunky experience. So, our sponsor of the show, Meridian Health Plan, backed my vision of creating mobile eye care units to bring accessible eye care to homebound Detroiters and Michigan residents. Doc, we merged there. What have you seen in the evolution of equipment? Because being a kid going to the eye doctor, I’ve seen a lot of changes in equipment from what I got in my van versus what was in the clinic back in late 70s. I won't date myself that much. What have you seen in terms of the evolution of equipment?

Dr. Miller: Oh, it's crazy. I mean, I told you the first device we used was clunky. Now, we've got these heat catheters that you know; we heat up a segment of vein 20 seconds, pull it back, repeat, repeat, repeat. Really quick, so, kind of non-invasive. Noninvasive, in-office. In-office, you know, we've got we can inject foam medication into the veins to close them down really quick. Yes, we take advantage of medical adhesives now. So, we got this really slick catheter. We put the catheter where we want it. It's got a little dispensary gun. We deliver just the right amount of medical adhesive at each segment of vein. Close them right down. Procedures today are we're talking anywhere between five to 15 minutes. You know, yesterday year it was hospitalization and stripping, big incisions, lots of recovery. Now you're up and walking immediately.

Dr. Moorer: I love it. I love to hear that. I love the focus on innovation, the entrepreneurship. In the first half, we talked about some of those warning signs for folks to really watch out for when to go and get to the doctor. I got some folks out there in the listener and viewer audience that say, "Oh man, doctors are just always trying to do things to me. They just want to run tests. They just want to do all these different unnecessary things." But we understand that healthcare is a necessity. Your focus has been purpose, and it’s been people fueled by your passion to change folks lives and change their health conditions over profit. Let's talk about that. You know, six clinics and saying, "But I'm putting people over the dollar. Let's go there."

Dr. Miller: Yeah. I actually believe most of us human beings just want to help other people, and I think most people understand that when you help other people. It's almost like a selfish thing. It makes you feel great. I mean, that it's such a motivator. It is. You know, and I do see I think it's a minority of docs out there that are doing the profit over the patient. You know, I'll see these patients that come in. And they had a procedure that I know they didn't need and they're left with metallic stents inside their body that are going to be there forever and it didn't even treat the underlying problem that they have. hat drives me nuts. And I just can't stand that. And I will tell you everybody that works at Miller Vein, I mean they know that we put our patients first, and I think that makes a huge difference.

Dr. Moorer: And that leads me to the next question, Dr. Miller. Building that

dream team. Building a team of not only clinical specialists and experts, but folks that share that same passion for humanity and purpose and improving others' lives. How do you do it nowadays? How do you build and maintain and sustain the dream team? Because I've seen a lot of the videos on YouTube from the Miller Vein Clinics. You guys are having a really good time, man. Like, so what's going on with the team? How do you do that?

Dr. Miller: I'm going to say something that's going to sound a little bit counterintuitive, but you know, you've heard, especially since with your business background, put the customer first, right? Customer always comes first, and the customer is always right. So, we can make the analogy; patient is always right, patient first. You know what? It comes to putting the employee first. If your employees are really happy, guess what? They're going to make those patients happy. They're going to work hard. And that's really what we focus on. And we do everything in our power to make sure our employees are empowered to do the right thing. They love that. They hang out after hours because they're like little families, but you know, functional families, families that get along. I mean, that's important. And we just try to connect. We have a lot of meetings so that everybody's voice can get heard. We try to throw at least two parties a year, a winter one and a summer one. Get everybody together and we enjoy each other's company and that makes a huge difference in patient care. Happy people do a better job taking care of patients.

Dr. Moorer: That's right, Doc. That's right. I love it. I love it. I do. So, Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, very familiar with the men's shelter facility. Have volunteered and spent some time there, right? Talk to me about some of your work and giving back in the community, man.

Dr. Miller: Yeah, so we try to do as much as we can. So, yeah, we're a partner with DRMM. We've set up free vein clinics. We're going to do one in the near future. Love doing that. I will tell you our big thing is we've partnered with Southeast Michigan Assistance League. They have this thing called Operation School Bell where basically we go into a school, we use the gym and set up a store and kids come in and then once we set up the store, we take the kids shopping. And of course, they don't pay for anything. I will tell you that my staff look forward to that day every year more than any of the parties that we throw because you know these kids they're, first off, they appreciate everything. They're so and they have nothing. I've seen kids where it's their first winter coat. You know, Michigan isn't a warm place to have no winter coat. Kids saying, "Oh, it's my first toothbrush." You know, and things like that. So, the teams love it. You know, I think like I said, I think most humans just love to help other people and we come out of that, we just feel very humbled and very energized because we feel like we made a little difference.

Dr. Moorer: And that's purpose. You know, as you think about, you know, positive psychology and the positive psychologist say that, you know, that spirit or that pursuit of pleasure is fleeting when it comes to happiness. trying to stay in a flow and keep the dream team happy all the time in the middle section. That's sometimes hard with happiness. But the top layer of happiness, the fulfillment of purpose. So, that's giving back, paying it forward. Thanks for embodying that, Dr. Miller, and exemplifying it. All right, running out of time on the home healthcare today show for this episode. So, let's end with the marathon mindset. So, you know, we we're talking about those legs, man. you know, spring is around the corner. What's up? Talk to me about this marathon mindset that you take on professionally, you know, as well as personally, you know, with your daughter and all. Let's go there. And the challenge that that you have for me over here, let's do let's do this, man.

Dr. Miller: I will tell you, you know, truth be told, I don't even identify as a runner. I don't know about that, man. I don't love running, although I enjoy it afterwards.

Dr. Moorer: I see the calves. I mean, going back to calf health, I'm seeing I'm seeing the calves.

Dr. Miller: But having said that, I will tell you, I love setting goals that seem impossible. Because once you've set it, then you literally have to work backwards and say, "Well, okay, how do I do that?"

Dr. Moorer: That's us. That part. Yeah, man.

Dr. Miller: That's what I was telling you. You got to sign up for the full marathon. Then you can figure out how to do it. Even if right now, you're not running today.

Dr. Moorer: I'm going to sign my name, Jeffrey H. Miller.

Dr. Miller: Well, then there'll be two Jeffrey H. Millers cause I signed up this year, and I've got both my daughters running this year.

Dr. Moorer: All right. No, I won't sign up as Dr. Miller. I will sign up as Dr. Cleamon Moorer, host of the Home Health Care Today Show. I'll do it. I'll take that. Dr. Miller, this has been an honor, man, and a pleasure to have you on the show. Pleasure, man. I got to have you back for more topics, man, because you're way more than just a cardiovascular professional, but Happy Cardiovascular Professionals Week to you and your dream team at Miller Vein.

Dr: Miller: Thank you to you as well.

Dr. Moorer: Thank you, brother.

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