Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Take Those DOT Physicals Seriously—They Help Save Lives, Too

It can be easy to become complacent about doing driver physicals required by the Department of Transportation. “Rubber stamping” them can have dire consequences for the patient, the employer, and the general public, and even raise your legal risk, however. Occ med and urgent care giant Concentra has been hit with a class action lawsuit in connection with a multiple-fatality bus crash in Maryland last November. The complaint claims that Concentra knew or should have …

Reasons for Patronage

In 2015, Merchant Medicine (Shoreview, Minnesota) released data from a detailed national study conducted in 2014 regarding U.S. patients’ preferences regarding retail clinics versus urgent care clinics versus primary-care physicians’ offices. The survey involved more than 2,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 54 years and was conducted by Sparks Research and Merchant Medicine on behalf of DXM Marketing Group. Survey data showed that the reasons patients chose a specific type of health-care setting …