Friday's New York Times article about retail clinics titled ''A Quick Trip to the Store for Milk and a Throat Swab'' asked readers to comment on their Well Blog about retail healthcare and nurse practitioners. And they sure did. It's worth it to read some of the discussion to stay informed about what misperceptions the public and ...

  This morning's inbox featured a raving review of retail health clinics from Mary Hunt, the writer known as ''The Everyday Cheapskate.'' The headline for her e-newsletter today is ''You're Sick, They're Quick.'' In it, she recounts her son's recent visit to a Minute Clinic located within a CVS pharmacy. ''He walked in without an ...

Here's an interesting twist on retail clinics: well-visit-only clinics, focusing on preventive care. This could be a great opportunity for NPs if it starts to take off. See this Wall Street Journal blog post. WellnessMart, owned and operated by a physician in California, treats only well patients, offering the same sort of menu of services ...

  With every news article I read about the latest clinic opening in a retail store, I search for the NP perspective — did they quote an NP or someone from an NP organization, I hope? I feel like the perspectives have been pretty balanced lately: Typically the story runs with an MD stating his fears about continuity of care and the ...

  Opening my Providence (Rhode Island) Journal this morning (OK, online), I saw yet another report on physician objections to retail or convenient care clinics. The same article, but with different names, has been showing up about once a week somewhere in the country for the past 3 years. The article always cites physician charges that ...