An op-ed voices concerns about retail health clinics. Will patients care?
A mini clinic makes recommendations and treatment decisions based less on personal context and more on general guidelines. Mini clinics currently do not have access to patient medical records and histories, follow-up on treatments or establish a patient-physician relationship. Without these capabilities, some symptoms of greater illness might go unnoticed by these medical professionals. At mini clinics, a small number of physicians supervise a group of medical professionals who are limited in the type and scope of care they can provide to patients.
