A Pretty Hollow Complaint, Doctor
The AMA and their current president can lament until the cows come home, but they haven’t done a damned thing to provide medical care to the poor before it becomes a matter of emergency rooms. By then, the acute has become chronic. I doubt that anyone even vaguely connected with the self-righteous AMA has ever sat up with a seriously sick child and had no place to go.
Ranit Mishori, (himself a family-medicine resident at Georgetown University/Providence Hospital) writes in the Washington Post about an intriguing, new, and (in the eyes of some physicians) controversial medical treatment philosophy;
Some of the newest players in health care are rubbing doctors the wrong way.
You may know them: those small clinics at your neighborhood Wal-Mart, Target or CVS that promise quick attention for routine visits -- sore throats, minor aches and pains, flu shots -- with no appointments needed. The clinics, which go by such names as MinuteClinic, RediClinic, QuickClinic, Medpoint Express, Curaquick …