Retail Clinics

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yep i work in a pharm with that clinic in it

mostly get amoxil, nasal spray, and stuff for uti from them

but if i was a pcp, id be ticked as that is a good loads of business lost
 
The McDonaldsization of medicine is a travesty.

Doctor's get what they deserve. They don't have time to see patient's when they are ill, so patients will go where they can be seen....
 
Doctor's get what they deserve. They don't have time to see patient's when they are ill, so patients will go where they can be seen....

Oh you won't get an argument out of me. We don't graduate enough doctors so the system said "**** this" and figured out ways to get around this. Retail clinics, NPs, PAs, CRNAs.

The AMA and surgical specialists doomed us all and I hate all of them for it.
 
We had these satellite pharmacies/health care clinics in the military as well... the Troop Medical Clinic.

Overcrowded and underspecialized for sure, but you know what, it's showing the public that pharmacists do MORE than count by 5 and skulk in the wings of the pharmacy, which I think is a great improvement.

I hear at UCSF this year, the student-interns are doing flu vaccinations! I hope I get in, as I think that'd be a pretty cool experience overall.

People will still go to their PCP - I mean, employer-paid health insurance and such might not pay for a retail clinic, and things of that nature. While I think the McDonald's-ization of health care as a general rule is pretty sad and as pharmacists we're only an inch away from "Would you like fries with your Metformin?" but I think the exposure, again, to the public is invaluable.

I can't count how many times I've told people, friends, family about going to pharmacy school and the like... And they say, "Why would you just want to count pills all day long?" because that's "all pharmacists do." Some people, intelligent people even, don't know the difference between a CPhT and a Pharmacist or which is which in the pharmacy. Retail clinics offering basic services that a Pharmacist could perform might assuage that, perhaps.
 
i am an independent pharmcist and I am opening my own retail clinic on oct 1st. I will have a pharmacist and a physician working side by side with the pharmacist doing a lot of the diagnosing and prescribing. I think it is a great way to get people to understand the value of the pharmacist. We are already booked with days to do flu shots, cholesterols screening, diabetes, and INR with our county and chamber of commerce.
 
I hear at UCSF this year, the student-interns are doing flu vaccinations! I hope I get in, as I think that'd be a pretty cool experience overall.

Ain't nothing new. Friends at several schools already do this, in fact a whole host of Maryland students are shooting the school faculty, students and staff later this month. Man I'm going to love taking pictures of the president of MedChi (also a professor) while he gets an injection from a pharmacy student. A mere 2.5 years after he said infront of my class that vaccines are too complicated for pharmacist to administer.
 
Ain't nothing new. Friends at several schools already do this, in fact a whole host of Maryland students are shooting the school faculty, students and staff later this month. Man I'm going to love taking pictures of the president of MedChi (also a professor) while he gets an injection from a pharmacy student. A mere 2.5 years after he said infront of my class that vaccines are too complicated for pharmacist to administer.

NYS is so ****ing prudish and regressive. Pharmacy interns can't give out shots in NYS.
 
Retail clinics, NPs, PAs, CRNAs.

The AMA and surgical specialists doomed us all and I hate all of them for it.

NPs the soon to be DNPs🙂 and you left out the DO.

the pharmacy governing boards I guess are the opposite of the AMA as they let pretty much let any "tom, dick and harry" open up a pharmacy school these days😱
 
i am an independent pharmcist and I am opening my own retail clinic on oct 1st. I will have a pharmacist and a physician working side by side with the pharmacist doing a lot of the diagnosing and prescribing. I think it is a great way to get people to understand the value of the pharmacist. We are already booked with days to do flu shots, cholesterols screening, diabetes, and INR with our county and chamber of commerce.

pharmacist is allowed to diagnose and prescribe? What will the physician be doing in that case? Also, does that mean you will have another pharmacist to dispense? I really like what you are doing, btw. Keep it up and keep sharing. Thanks.
 
I don't think that these clinics are necessarily bad. If they prove successful, where do you think more and more physicians will migrate to? Who wants to deal with patients who have no or bad insurance and tons of paperwork when you can work at one of these clinics and the patients pay cash? If the physicians really like the clinic model, they will shove out the competition because they can offer more services than simply UTI, pharyngitis, and OM diagnosis and treatment.
 
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