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Re:InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ... by garndt on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @04:31PM (#629107)
I'm not sure how being a parent provides qualification in assessing the practicality of this startup, but if it does, then I would like to weigh in on this issue as I am a parent of 2. These clinics are typically staffed at least by a nurse practitioner, who can treat and prescribe medications (depending on the state) for almost any reasonable non-urgent condition, including antibiotics. If you live in a state where the nurse practitioner can not prescribe medications, there is usually a physician on staff that works along side the NP to assist in those situations. These clinics sell themselves as being non-urgent care facilities that are able to treat conditions that otherwise would have required a physician or Emergency room visit. If they could not prescribe medications and treat most of these conditions, I am unsure how successful they would really be.
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Re:InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ... by breck on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @05:26PM (#629229)
My guess is there are a lot fewer of these clinics and the majority don't have access to them.

There are 5,700 hospitals in the U.S.(AHA) and ~ 4,500 emergency rooms.

Do you know how many of these clinics there are?

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Re:InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ... by tptacek on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @05:53PM (#629279)
As much as I love the InQuickER idea, it's not hard to predict which one of NP clinics and InQuickER is going to make a bigger dent faster. Clinics are going to be everywhere in ten years. It's too good a system not to succeed.

Of course, InQuickER (or something like it) is just going to integrate with the clinics and urgent care centers. I'm going to select "ear infection" and enter my zip code and it's going to give me a selection just like Orbitz.

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Re:InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ... by smokey_the_bear on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:03AM (#629884)
As a point of reference, I've never heard of these clinics.
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