<div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry for the flurry of emails. This is all to say that I agree with Jmapb's description.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--<br>Brian</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:35 AM Brian Stromberg <<a href="mailto:brian.stromberg@gmail.com">brian.stromberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think the same rule about MD oversight applies where I live, but I have never seen an MD at a clinic. PAs and RNs are more than enough for me. I don't need credentials as long as there is competence =)<br></div><div><br></div><div>For sure, we have those clusters of health services, although I've always seen that as a separate type of thing; an expression of location efficiency rather than a type of service. Clinics are more of a middle ground between a traditional practice and an emergency room.
I've gone to them for a fever, a broken hand, an injured mother, and a few other reasons.
My impression is that they are also more accessible for low-income or other marginalized members of the community, so I think they play an important role (which makes them worthy of being properly mapped).<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--<br>Brian</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:10 AM Kevin Kenny <<a href="mailto:kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.b.kenny@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Brian Stromberg<br>
<<a href="mailto:brian.stromberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.stromberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> When I hear “clinic” in reference to a healthcare facility, I think of “urgent care” clinics, and I think there are about six urgent care clinics within a 20 minute drive of my local hospital. These are usually staffed with nurses and Physicians Assistants rather than MDs.<br>
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In my state, a nurse-practitioner or a physician's assistant has to<br>
work under the supervision of an MD, so there's generally at least one<br>
doc at an urgent care clinic. Still, you're right that for routine<br>
matters a patient probably won't need to see the MD. I know that I've<br>
seen NP's at my doc's office, and they've ordered radiology and lab<br>
work, and prescribed. (If the radiology or labs had shown anything out<br>
of the ordinary, they'd have bucked it up to a doc.)<br>
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Your area doesn't also have numerous multi-specialty 'health centres?'<br>
Places where they consolidate radiology, lab, endoscopy, outpatient<br>
surgery, orthopaedics, ...?<br>
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-- <br>
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin<br>
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