An article about retail clinics in Michigan appeared on today's Crain's Detroit Business website. For those of you not having the pleasure of reading the typical retail clinic article in mainstream media, I'll summarize 95% of them for you now: 1. They usually start out talking about the fast growth of retail clinics. Some even throw in a "joke" of getting a tetanus shot where you shop for toilet paper. 2. Sometimes they interview an actual patient seen in the retail health setting. The patient usually has sinusitis or streptococcal pharyngitis and remarks about the convenience of the clinic's hours, location, price, accessibility, etc. The patient's experience is positive and state they would return again in the future. 3. Here it comes: "Doctors feel threat, have concerns, are skeptical," etc. This is the part for good ole fashioned nurse practitioner-bashing. Here is my case in point: "Nurse practitioners play an important role in heal...
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