Sounds like a euphemism for my GP’s office when I was a kid in the 60′s. He charged cash up front, first come first served, and sold little boxes of the most common drugs in his office.

The other docs thought he was “dodgy” but we loved him. We never could see the logic of having to make and appointment when we only went to the doctor when we were sick.

I had to get my record when I went to med school. My entire record of 21 years of multiple URI’s, bronchitis, flu, a couple of UTI’s, vaccinations, and half a dozen sets of sutures, was on a 5 by 8 index card–and everything we needed to know was there.