Sorry for the flurry of emails. This is all to say that I agree with Jmapb's description.
-- Brian On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:35 AM Brian Stromberg <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Brian Stromberg >> <[email protected]> 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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