Quickie medical clinics: Are their days numbered?

February 11, 2007

Says a family physician: “The first time a guy walks into a retail clinic for chest discomfort and is given antibiotics for a URI, then drops dead from an MI, the whole concept will come crashing to the ground.”



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{ 3 comments }

1 Anonymous February 12, 2007 at 12:01 pm

oh it’s just a matter of time before John Edwards Inc. start gnawing on this leg too.

2 DBR February 12, 2007 at 7:01 pm

“Funny how malpractice suits haven’t (yet) brought the US medical system crashing down yet.”

If you think out of control medical “justice” isn’t bringing down the system, then you’re clearly living in either California, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Louisiana or Wisconsin…

3 Anonymous February 13, 2007 at 2:13 pm

I doubt a missed MI will cause retail clinics to come crashing down. ER’s still miss MI’s and they manage to stay in buisness. The retail clinics that have popped up in the Sacramento area make it clear that they only treat minor illness. There survival will be more linked to having sufficient volume to be profitable.

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