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This just in, Walmart is beginning to open Doctor's clinics in it's stores! Now you can shop for a frying pan, & visit the Doctor for your flu symptoms all at the same time!:wah:

http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/w ... 5909990001

So if you were sick, would/will you got to a Wallymart's Doctor's clinic?

cars;773424 wrote: This just in, Walmart is beginning to open Doctor's clinics in it's stores! Now you can shop for a frying pan, & visit the Doctor for your flu symptoms all at the same time!:wah:



http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/w ... 5909990001



So if you were sick, would/will you got to a Wallymart's Doctor's clinic?
And get a haircut.

mammograms aisle 1

vasectomys aisle 2

Pap smears aisle 3

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Put your bread on the conveyer, now turn your head and cough.:wah:

I've gone... inexpensive and very happy with the doctor I saw. I'd

go again if I needed it.



:-6

They have excellent eye doctors, so I'm sure I would...

Well last year I went to a "Walk-in Wellness Center" here in FL, that was not affilliated with Wally's, but I imaginge it would be similar, & I was satisfied with the outcome. I was diagonosed, prescribed meds, & shortly thereafter was cured. Just like going to the $100 Doc OV! So. . . . .



(Guess it was only a matter of time before Wally expanded past the Eye Docs, to Med Docs.)

i hate Wal-Mart.

I am proud to say that i have not shopped at one since September of '02

I was gonna add that I can get my oil changed while they check my engine!:sneaky::wah:

You can renew your huntin fishin licence (I've done this), while getting the photos of yourself and the moose developed, while having the doc dig stray buckshot outta yer butt, while your co hunter is getting his eyes tested. Didn't some film heroine have a baby in the Walmart restroom? Maybe that's what inspired the latest novel new innovation.

I like Walmart, but please keep them far from Australia.

Price check on 'breast examination' :-3

ThePheasant;773507 wrote: Price check on 'breast examination' :-3
Hey thats my department, I'll handle it..

Yes, they do have that department at WalMart. For some areas where they cannot afford a trip to the doctor, it is a viable alternative for non-threatening illnesses. It is either that or a trip to the emrgency room, to treat a severe cold or flu.

I have this bad cold, lost my voice too at school-that in itself is a story-but all the kids, bus drivers told me to go to WalMart to have the nurse practioner treat me. I opted out of their kind offer, and if I am ill next week will go to my doctor. But they do all use this service, which means they will get more medical treatment then they usually do.

Mr Smith your sperm count results are ready for collection.

ThePheasant;773522 wrote: Mr Smith your sperm count results are ready for collection.
:wah::wah: And 40 people head that direction.

chonsigirl;773517 wrote: Yes, they do have that department at WalMart. For some areas where they cannot afford a trip to the doctor, it is a viable alternative for non-threatening illnesses. It is either that or a trip to the emrgency room, to treat a severe cold or flu.

I have this bad cold, lost my voice too at school-that in itself is a story-but all the kids, bus drivers told me to go to WalMart to have the nurse practioner treat me. I opted out of their kind offer, and if I am ill next week will go to my doctor. But they do all use this service, which means they will get more medical treatment then they usually do.


I sounds like its a good idea. Just takes a bit of getting used to. :-6

YZGI;773508 wrote: Hey thats my department, I'll handle it..


You could be that man that welcomes you at the door. Providing a 'drive-thru' examination. :-3

I don't shop WalMart

I won't shop Walmart

Our society really has become relaxed

Pheas - the your improv - can you imagine at the check out, grocerys $37.49

and Miss your PAP Smear came back positve for - - - --- your test and presciption cream total is $$ and apply daily etc.... I don't think so

Its tough enough at a grocery store with lines of people waiting for you to put your money/card into wallet & get out of the way.

Walmart's a ZOO - no thank you, my moneys just as good elsewhere..

Patsy

Hey Patsy.... Something else we have in common... I hatw Walmart. I call it The Big Satan. After doctor visits, will be euthanasia centers.

And a cemetery out back. Undertaker to Aisle 4, please!!

Weeder

How are you with Target stores ?

This is another store that drives me crazy - I don't understand their check area

the check outs are like stacked - domino affect - can't stand it....

Patsy

Patsy Warnick;773728 wrote: Weeder

How are you with Target stores ?

This is another store that drives me crazy - I don't understand their check area

the check outs are like stacked - domino affect - can't stand it....

Patsy


I also Loathe TARGET. Not for the same reasons as Walmart. Walmart is trying to take over the world. Target is just filled with lots of garbage and junk. My friends all love Target.

If I'm sick............the last place I would want to go is Wal-Mart.

X-rays ready in an hour .......... suitable for framing!

along-for-the-ride;773819 wrote: If I'm sick............the last place I would want to go is Wal-Mart.


I know, it sounds like a bad thing. I know I can afford to go to a doctor. For my school's neighborhood, it is a good alternative, or no doctor at all. Or filling up the ER and endangering high risk cases that need to be there. I didn't even know they did that until this week. I am stalling until Tuesday to go if still sick-to the doctor, not Walmart. We are off for election day here.

Patsy Warnick;773529 wrote: I don't shop WalMart

I won't shop Walmart



Our society really has become relaxed



Pheas - the your improv - can you imagine at the check out, grocerys $37.49

and Miss your PAP Smear came back positve for - - - --- your test and presciption cream total is $$ and apply daily etc.... I don't think so



Its tough enough at a grocery store with lines of people waiting for you to put your money/card into wallet & get out of the way.



Walmart's a ZOO - no thank you, my moneys just as good elsewhere..



Patsy


weeder;773713 wrote: Hey Patsy.... Something else we have in common... I hatw Walmart. I call it The Big Satan. After doctor visits, will be euthanasia centers.
Gotta love it.



People complain that there's no affordable healthcare for the poor, then when someone provides it, they're satan for taking advantage.

Accountable;773847 wrote: Gotta love it.



People complain that there's no affordable healthcare for the poor, then when someone provides it, they're satan for taking advantage.


A Wal Mart mini clinic is hardly healthcare. Have you seen these clinics ?

Its smaller than a jail cell. They treat only the most simplistic ailments.

A generic visit to a family doctor isnt whats breaking Americas healthcare system.

Its all the specialty bells and whistles and hospital visits.

Nomad;773851 wrote: A Wal Mart mini clinic is hardly healthcare. Have you seen these clinics ?

Its smaller than a jail cell. They treat only the most simplistic ailments.

A generic visit to a family doctor isnt whats breaking Americas healthcare system.

Its all the specialty bells and whistles and hospital visits.
Oh, well. If it's only simplistic ailments then screw 'em. Let 'em go to the emergency room like everybody else. :yh_eyebro

Accountable;773856 wrote: Oh, well. If it's only simplistic ailments then screw 'em. Let 'em go to the emergency room like everybody else. :yh_eyebro




Right !

My point exactly.

Screw em !

I don't like Wal-Mart, either, overall. But they are so much cheaper

than other places, you can't go somewhere else to make a point

if you are financially strapped with no health insurance. I go to my

regular gynecologists for those check-ups, and I can get low-cost

mammograms at a hospital near here (only 2 days a year, though!)

but why pay even $20 more if you don't have to? The main reason

the doctors are cheaper at Wal-Mart is the lower cost of overhead.

Any regular doctor's offices in this county have to hike their fees

to make the payments on the building and parking lot.



The one near me has a big board with the fees listed for many common

things people need at a doctor's office. Every one of them as far as

I can tell is much cheaper than if you were to go to a regular doc.

Some cases, HALF the price. I don't know about some of you but I

can't afford to pay more for the prestige of going to a regular doctor.



I got good service, I liked the doc, and maybe my problem wasn't

earth-shattering (sciatica pain) but he HELPED me.

Scenario 1



Kid's running a fever. Mom decides to wait; maybe it'll pass

Fever rises. Kid has more symptoms (make 'em up on your own. I'm no doctor). Mom knows they can't afford to go to the doctor. Calls her mom for advice. Gives the kid a spoon of table sugar and a shot of bourbon.

Kid starts hallucinating and screaming about being attacked by giant wobblies. Mom panics and calls an ambulance.

Ambulance takes the kid to the emergency room. Doctors feverishly work on the kid trying to save his life.

Doctor tells the mom that the surgery was successful, but the kid will only have partial use of . Doctor asks how she could have let his condition progress so far?!? This could have been easily avoidable had she brought the kid in sooner.

Mom spends the rest of her days paying doctor bills, ambulance charges, medications, etc, etc.Scenario 2



Kid's running a fever. Mom decides to wait; maybe it'll pass

Fever rises. Kid has more symptoms (make 'em up on your own. I'm no doctor). Mom goes to the mini-jail cell clinic at Wal-mart. Nurse practitioner checks the kid, tells mom to get to a doctor NOW, and that if she doesn't, it could progress into a life-threatening condition.

Nurse gives mom a list of doctors approved by Sam's Club health plan and explains the easy payment plan.

Mom follows nurse's advice instead of her mother's recommended burbon therapy.

Monday morning the kid's complaining because he doesn't want to go to school.

I don't like shopping at Walmart either, it's a zoo. But these healthcare clinics would be great in the simple fact it would take a load off the non-pays at the local county hospitals.

Accountable;773865 wrote: Scenario 1



Kid's running a fever. Mom decides to wait; maybe it'll pass

Fever rises. Kid has more symptoms (make 'em up on your own. I'm no doctor). Mom knows they can't afford to go to the doctor. Calls her mom for advice. Gives the kid a spoon of table sugar and a shot of bourbon.

Kid starts hallucinating and screaming about being attacked by giant wobblies. Mom panics and calls an ambulance.

Ambulance takes the kid to the emergency room. Doctors feverishly work on the kid trying to save his life.

Doctor tells the mom that the surgery was successful, but the kid will only have partial use of . Doctor asks how she could have let his condition progress so far?!? This could have been easily avoidable had she brought the kid in sooner.

Mom spends the rest of her days paying doctor bills, ambulance charges, medications, etc, etc.Scenario 2



Kid's running a fever. Mom decides to wait; maybe it'll pass

Fever rises. Kid has more symptoms (make 'em up on your own. I'm no doctor). Mom goes to the mini-jail cell clinic at Wal-mart. Nurse practitioner checks the kid, tells mom to get to a doctor NOW, and that if she doesn't, it could progress into a life-threatening condition.

Nurse gives mom a list of doctors approved by Sam's Club health plan and explains the easy payment plan.

Mom follows nurse's advice instead of her mother's recommended burbon therapy.

Monday morning the kid's complaining because he doesn't want to go to school.




Id like to see a 3rd and 4th scenario before I succumb to your influential dialogue.

Maybe something a little more pro bourbon therapy.

Account

Its not health care at Walmart - its not for any preventive care

And if others take advantage of Walmart's services great if this works for them.

I don't know if you see a License Pract. Nurse ?

I doubt if you see a Medical Grad. from Harvard.

The Medical Field is very scary to begin with, thats why " they" call it

PRACTICING MEDICINE.

Weeder - I don't do Walmart - I won't feed into their Monopoly

and Target drives me crazy - can't do it.

Patsy

As long as the doctors are licensed etc. - why not.

Patsy Warnick;773872 wrote: Account



Its not health care at Walmart - its not for any preventive care

And if others take advantage of Walmart's services great if this works for them.

I don't know if you see a License Pract. Nurse ?

I doubt if you see a Medical Grad. from Harvard.



The Medical Field is very scary to begin with, thats why " they" call it

PRACTICING MEDICINE.



Weeder - I don't do Walmart - I won't feed into their Monopoly

and Target drives me crazy - can't do it.



Patsy




Whoooa ! Now ease up ther lil missy ! Target is a fine establishment.

Nomad;773867 wrote: Id like to see a 3rd and 4th scenario before I succumb to your influential dialogue.

Maybe something a little more pro bourbon therapy.
Watch it, you, or I'll take away your coin!

The one by my school has a licensed nurse practioner, and a doctor at specific times during the week.

The only thing wrong with Accountable's scenario-if it is a severe flu or cold symptoms, you are turned away from the ER's here right now. An ambulance won't even take you away, since no one will take you in.

Chronsi's right, espicially with little kids with flu symptoms are not seen, nothing they can do but tell you to alternate between tylenol and motrin for the fever.

chonsigirl;773883 wrote: The one by my school has a licensed nurse practioner, and a doctor at specific times during the week.



The only thing wrong with Accountable's scenario-if it is a severe flu or cold symptoms, you are turned away from the ER's here right now. An ambulance won't even take you away, since no one will take you in.




I knew there was something terribly flawed with his scenario.

You really layed into him good bunny !

Nomad

I know Target is a MN monoploy - I do like that Target has alot of RED

Sheryl - Chrons

I've never heard of taking your child to ER for the FLU - never

I don't know what a DR could do for you for the FLU - never in my life have I've seen a DR for the FLU.

You usually have to ride it out.

I have noticed everytime my husband was in the ER, the lobby was bogged down - over crowded with colds & FLU - why ?

I've always considered ER for a serious condition - you know HEART ATTACK..

So, perhaps Walmart is a good alternative for those who feel the need medical advice for the cold & flu.



Patsy

Patsy Warnick;773905 wrote: Nomad



I know Target is a MN monoploy - I do like that Target has alot of RED



Sheryl - Chrons



I've never heard of taking your child to ER for the FLU - never



I don't know what a DR could do for you for the FLU - never in my life have I've seen a DR for the FLU.

You usually have to ride it out.



I have noticed everytime my husband was in the ER, the lobby was bogged down - over crowded with colds & FLU - why ?



I've always considered ER for a serious condition - you know HEART ATTACK..



So, perhaps Walmart is a good alternative for those who feel the need medical advice for the cold & flu.





Patsy




I just think they are a cut above in their product selection. They have a really outstanding food line as well. Archer Farms offers the type of variety you wont find anywhere besidessay a Byerlys but you pay through the nose for those carpeted floors and live lobsters.

The couple of times I've been I've seen an M.D. and I do know the

difference, maybe he didn't graduate from Harvard but he was in fact

an M.D. not a nurse practitioner. Ther is nothing wrong with an NP,

either, oftentimes they see more things than the doc does, and have

more experience with the day to day types of things.

Oh yes, Patsy, severe flu symptoms where dehydration has set in, colds that have turned into bronchitis or pneumonia, they go to the ER all the time. When there is no insurance, no money, and a person/child is that sick, that is the only recourse left. Very typical in large urban centers, and here in Baltimore the edict was set about a month ago that those patients would be turned away. The hospitals were already filled with other priority patients.

(no offense, but when was the last time you went to an ER? Last couple of trips with my husband due to a seizure or complication of his illness, many people were in there for flu/cold complications, I was always worried he would come home with something after the trip. Probably about 1/3-1/2 the people there were for this, and this is suburbia)

That is life for people without insurance, or a regular doctor. The ER is the solution when there is no where to go. That is why problems arise with ER rooms closing, consolidation of these cases in certain facilities, and substandard care because there is not enough personel to treat the patients. A large nursing shortage here, nurses work 12 hour shifts, I have no idea what the doctors work.

Nomad

Oh, I'll go to Target before Walmart, I take my husband so he can escort me out.:wah:

I need to go to Target to buy a RED Microwave for my RED kitchen, by the way turned out wonderful. very cool

I would never me medically treated at a Walmart - I wouldn't frown on someone who does. Just choices and I'm thankful we still have choices.

Patsy

Chrons

My husband is doing great now - after a triple by-pass in 2002

Cancer in 2004 - and my 16 surgerys - the ER is a second home to us.

The ER was always full of colds & flu - which as you said I was afraid my husband would get - or me, there were enough complications.

I suppose I'm well supplied with antibiotics & other meds that as soon as something arises I start meds immediately.

Remember the old remedies from Gram or Mom - Cod liver Oil

in a gel cap - anyone who's ever had any upper respiriatory infections should be on Cod Liver Oil. I would give a child a daily dose along with a regular multi vitamin.

I couldn't stand that junk when I was a kid - now I'm truely a believer.

The Medical Field is risky no matter where you go - I'm sure my sister has seeked medical attention at Walmart - thats ok

I'm glad there's choices for all.

Patsy

chonsigirl;773918 wrote: Oh yes, Patsy, severe flu symptoms where dehydration has set in, colds that have turned into bronchitis or pneumonia, they go to the ER all the time. When there is no insurance, no money, and a person/child is that sick, that is the only recourse left. Very typical in large urban centers, and here in Baltimore the edict was set about a month ago that those patients would be turned away. The hospitals were already filled with other priority patients.



(no offense, but when was the last time you went to an ER? Last couple of trips with my husband due to a seizure or complication of his illness, many people were in there for flu/cold complications, I was always worried he would come home with something after the trip. Probably about 1/3-1/2 the people there were for this, and this is suburbia)



That is life for people without insurance, or a regular doctor. The ER is the solution when there is no where to go. That is why problems arise with ER rooms closing, consolidation of these cases in certain facilities, and substandard care because there is not enough personel to treat the patients. A large nursing shortage here, nurses work 12 hour shifts, I have no idea what the doctors work.
Sounds like there's a niche to provide a service to people not sick enough for the ER nor, um, established enough to have a family physician.



Hmmmmm ..... :yh_think ...... who could fill such a void? ........ aha!:yh_idea

Patsy Warnick;773921 wrote: Nomad



Oh, I'll go to Target before Walmart, I take my husband so he can escort me out.:wah:

I need to go to Target to buy a RED Microwave for my RED kitchen, by the way turned out wonderful. very cool



I would never me medically treated at a Walmart - I wouldn't frown on someone who does. Just choices and I'm thankful we still have choices.



Patsy
:yh_clap :yh_clap *loud whistles* :yh_clap :yh_clap

Yes, I am with you, Patsy. We can take ourselves and loved ones to better facilities. I am glad ER trips are fewer now, and hope they are for you and your husband also. I was glad to hear of an alternative center for some of my students, who probably would get no medical attention at all, except for serious bone breaks or something like that. (I felt kind of nice, when they asked me multiple times to go there, that was their concept of medical attention-how fortunate the rest of us are) Of course, they didn't mind when Bill Nye taught the class the rest of the day...........................:wah:

Patsy Warnick;773905 wrote: Nomad

I know Target is a MN monoploy - I do like that Target has alot of RED

Sheryl - Chrons

I've never heard of taking your child to ER for the FLU - never

I don't know what a DR could do for you for the FLU - never in my life have I've seen a DR for the FLU.

You usually have to ride it out.

I have noticed everytime my husband was in the ER, the lobby was bogged down - over crowded with colds & FLU - why ?

I've always considered ER for a serious condition - you know HEART ATTACK..

So, perhaps Walmart is a good alternative for those who feel the need medical advice for the cold & flu.



Patsy


Oh there are alot of folks who take their kids who have the stomach virus or cold/flu to the E.R. I saw lots of it when I worked in the E.R. Most were medicaid patients who wouldn't take off work to take their kid to a doctor during the day.

Amarillo has now put in emergency clinics for people to go to with cold symptoms, instead of clogging the E.R.s