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Group Appointments With Doctors: When Three Isn't A Crowd (Oh yay!)
Everyday Health ^ | March 19, 2013 | Michelle Andrews

Posted on 03/19/2013 4:12:36 PM PDT by KansasGirl

TUESDAY, March 19, 2013 (Kaiser Health News) — When visiting the doctor, there may be strength in numbers.

In recent years, a growing number of doctors have begun holding group appointments — seeing up to a dozen patients with similar medical concerns all at once. Advocates of the approach say such visits allow doctors to treat more patients, spend more time with them (even if not one-on-one), increase appointment availability and improve health outcomes.

Some see group appointments as a way to ease looming physician shortages. According to a study published in December, meeting the country's health-care needs will require nearly 52,000 additional primary-care physicians by 2025. More than 8,000 of that total will be needed for the more than 27 million people newly insured under the Affordable Care Act.


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To: KansasGirl

Many of use served in the military and went through this. No, thank you.


21 posted on 03/19/2013 4:35:34 PM PDT by Pollster1
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To: KansasGirl
Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"

"Then don't do that. "

22 posted on 03/19/2013 4:48:52 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: KansasGirl

Isn’t this already normal at airport security? Everybody around is group-scanned, x-ray’d, and groped.


23 posted on 03/19/2013 4:49:12 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Followed by gruop gynecological exams. I wonder if they will tell us to “scoot down” individually or if one time will suffice...


24 posted on 03/19/2013 5:24:10 PM PDT by karatemom
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Do you know the difference between an oral and rectal thermometers is ?

Taste


25 posted on 03/19/2013 5:27:40 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Bryanw92

No HIPPA problems. Just get the patient to sign a waiver in the initial stack of forms. Don’t sign? Don’t get treated. But it’s all voluntary.


26 posted on 03/19/2013 5:32:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: KansasGirl

As long as they’re treating a group with “similar symptoms”; why bother actually diagnosing each one individually? Simply pick one patient at random, diagnose him or her & make multiple copies of the prescription form. That would be much more efficient. Think of the savings!


27 posted on 03/19/2013 5:52:23 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: KansasGirl

We’re in the ARMY now!


28 posted on 03/19/2013 6:03:47 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Kozak

lmAo!!


29 posted on 03/19/2013 6:19:55 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: KansasGirl

“Turn your heads away from each other and cough.”


30 posted on 03/19/2013 6:37:53 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: goldi

More probably at the Food Stamp President’s administration .... they are beyond transparent .... opaque.


31 posted on 03/19/2013 7:11:25 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Leveling the playing field for a Progressive is dragging everyone down to their level.)
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To: KansasGirl

Private suites for the elite.

Semi-private for the employed w/adequate insurance.

Wards for the rest of us. Curtains, perhaps, but they will be thin, stained and won’t go to the end of the rod.


32 posted on 03/20/2013 2:32:31 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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