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05-12-2009, 09:48 PM
Around the country, hospitals are now affiliated with more than 25 Wal-Mart clinics. The Cleveland Clinic has lent its name and backup services to a string of CVS drugstore clinics in northeastern Ohio. And the Mayo Clinic (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) is in the game, operating one Express Care clinic at a supermarket in Rochester, Minn., and a second one across town at a shopping mall.
Many primary-care doctors still denigrate the retail clinics as cheap, unworthy competitors. But hospitals see the clinics as a way to reach more patients and expand their business. And they argue that as President Obama (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and Congress warn of a shortage of primary-care physicians, the hospital-linked retail clinics are filling a vital public need.
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Many primary-care doctors still denigrate the retail clinics as cheap, unworthy competitors. But hospitals see the clinics as a way to reach more patients and expand their business. And they argue that as President Obama (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and Congress warn of a shortage of primary-care physicians, the hospital-linked retail clinics are filling a vital public need.
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