[Talk-us] When is your doctor a clinic?

[Brian Stromberg]

Sorry for the flurry of emails. This is all to say that I agree with
Jmapb's description.

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Brian


On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:35 AM Brian Stromberg <brian.stromberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 =)
>
> 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).
>
> --
> Brian
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:10 AM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Brian Stromberg
>> <brian.stromberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> In my state, a nurse-practitioner or a physician's assistant has to
>> work under the supervision of an MD, so there's generally at least one
>> doc at an urgent care clinic. Still, you're right that for routine
>> matters a patient probably won't need to see the MD.  I know that I've
>> seen NP's at my doc's office, and they've ordered radiology and lab
>> work, and prescribed. (If the radiology or labs had shown anything out
>> of the ordinary, they'd have bucked it up to a doc.)
>>
>> Your area doesn't also have numerous multi-specialty 'health centres?'
>> Places where they consolidate radiology, lab, endoscopy, outpatient
>> surgery, orthopaedics, ...?
>>
>> --
>> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
>>
>
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