Retail Medical Clinics – Are You Buying It?
Getting Well On A Budget
A recent study by the RAND corporation shows that the quality of care that one receives at a retail medical clinic when being treated for such common ailments as ear infections, sore throats and UTIs is no less than that of the care they would receive at a doctor’s office, urgent care or ER. With lower costs and shorter waits are retail medical clinics the wave of the future?
Guests:
Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, University of Pittsburg physician and lead author of the recent RAND study on remote medical clinics
Dr. Michael T. Brady, Pediatrician, Spokesman, American Academy of Pediatrics
Webster Golinkin, Chief Executive Officer of RediClinic LLC
- Patt Morrison for September 17, 2009
- No Rockets Red Glaring Over Eastern Europe
- The Health Care Reform Compromise that No One Likes
- Retail Medical Clinics – Are You Buying It?
- Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights – You Gotta Let Me Off This Plane!
- Local Washing - When "Buying Local" Isn't Really Local
- Remembering Henry Gibson
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Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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