Cost Savings and Retail Clinics
Fascinating approach to reducing healthcare costs. Thanks Adam!
I’ve been interested in retail clinics for years. It’s a wonderfully simple idea: there are a range of conditions for which a doctor just isn’t the right tool for the job, any more than you need a trained engineer to change a light-bulb. If someone has inflamed tonsils (pharyngitis), a urinary tract infection or an ear infection (otitis media – you’ll need the vocab for the next section) sending them to a physician or an emergency room makes no sense – you have an expensive provider delivering by-the-book care. And in the event that the patient has something serious masquerading as something common? They’ll almost certainly get the basic care anyway and end up coming back in later.