[NPInfo] NP PA answers to MD attacks

[Andy Craig]

It's also no different than optician stores inside Wal Mart, etc., afiliated
with "Independent Doctors of Optometry".

Andy Craig, NP
Charlotte, NC


-----Original Message-----
From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
Of Sue Emmite
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 1:39 PM
To: NP Info
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] NP PA answers to MD attacks


I am old enough to remember when patients exited the doctors office through
the pharmacy.  It was VERY common in the late 1950's on (until laws were
passed to stop it) for a pharmacy to be owned by a physician and attached to
the medical office.  So you saw the doctor and walked right through to the
pharmacy when you were through and then out to your car.  The office where I
go for my routine care still had a pharmacy attached (which is not illegal
as long as the physcian doesn't own or have interest in it) until they moved
to a new facility.  So Goldberg's comments are invalid.  I don't know where
he lives and what the laws are in his state, but in Texas they are
apparently not the same. Back in the day =:) if the pharmacy was not
attached, there was one right next door or within a block.  So what is the
difference in having a clinic in the pharmacy area?  I have gone to the NP
clinic in one of our grocery stores to get immunizations.  I knew one of the
NP's.  It was the same as if I would have gone to my DO's office and quicker
and cheaper.  No harm no foul! Sue Emmite FNP

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