“If physicians want to reclaim that business, they will probably have to offer the same benefits of scheduling and efficiency that retail clinics do.” ~NY Times
Great reminder… adapt or die. I’ve been beating this drum for about 3 years. And it will be hard to change patient’s behavior back towards their PCP once they are used to convenience of retail clinics. What we need to do is market the “new PCP” (DPC is well positioned there) as the alternative to the UC and retail clinics. – The Sovereign Patient
APRIL 12, 2016 – My wife and I both work. When one of our children wakes up complaining of a sore throat, we could begin a ritual stare-down to determine which of us is going to have to wait for the doctor’s office to open, make the phone call, wait on hold, schedule an appointment (which will inevitably be in the middle of the day), take off work, pick up the child from school, sit in the waiting room (surrounded by other sick children), get the rapid strep test, find out if the child is infected and then go to the pharmacy or back to school, before returning to work.
Or, one of us could just take the child to a retail clinic on the way to work and be done in…
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