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