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Medical Storefront

PROLOGUE

The Medical Storefront

From the medical home...to the medical storefront? As concepts of health care delivery go, there couldn’t be bigger differences between patient-centered medical homes and consumer-centered retail clinics. The one implies a comforting long-term relationship with a primary care physician who helps coordinate one’s encounters with the rest of the health care system. The other implies fast, episodic encounters with a nurse practitioner, who’s as close and convenient to get to as your neighborhood drugstore. Is a $2 trillion health care system big enough to embrace both models, if that’s what consumers—or patients—want?

As the following papers make clear, retail clinics . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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