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Does this mean that many CVSs will become magnets for sick people as CVS tries to integrate more basic health services into its stores? I realize that most peo
by bartart 9y ago
Does this mean that many CVSs will become magnets for sick people as CVS tries to integrate more basic health services into its stores?
I realize that most people going to an expanded minute clinic aren't going to be some sort of walking dead, but it seems that if CVS tries to make its stores too much like primary care with ill people going to get prescriptions from a doctor, then people will avoid buying things at its stores to avoid getting sick.
- pcurve 9y agoMinute clinic facility usually has physical separation from CVS store, no?
- dangrossman 9y agoThe one I've seen was just an extra room inside the store, beside the pharmacy. There was no physical separation of patients from shoppers. Same thing at Walgreens Healthcare Clinic, just extra rooms beside the pharmacy.
- dd36 9y agoDon’t the walking dead already pick up prescriptions there? I share your concern. Maybe they could service people out of Tesla Semis in the parking lot? Only half joking.
- briandear 9y agoWhy do we still have to pick prescriptions up? We have pizza delivery — why not for medicines? Order your drugs with an app and it shows up at your door.
- Cookiesaurusbex 9y agoThe VA offers mail delivery for prescription medications. I imagine it has something to do with it being a single payer system, & they have to look for any chance to optimize in the whole medical food chain instead of just the pharmacy portion.
- just1nn 9y agoPrescriptions have been available with delivery or mail order service for at least the last ten years. I have worked for at least two private pharmacies (in different states) who offered delivery service, and several of my classmates went to work for the mail-order fill companies as the "stare and compare" pharmacist checker.
- pcurve 9y agocvs caremark and express scripts already send out billions of scripts via mail every year. Mostly maintenance medications, of course.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoCVS is a pharmacy. That means it is already a magnet for sick people. Allergies? Pharmacy. Long-term disease? Pharmacy. Cold or flu or want to try the natural meds for pinkeye? Pharmacy. And a slew of other infectious and non-infectious diseases, maladies, and injuries.