Walmart medicine

From MedPage Today, a doctor-reviewed medical news source, comes information that patients are going to "retail medical clinics," such as those operated by Walmart, for their common complaints, more often than they would go to a primary care physician.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/HealthPolicy/tb/10882

Their study, reported in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, also disclosed that 61.3% of retail clinic patients (SE 0.04%) had no regular primary care physician....those 18 to 44 years old, were a disproportionate share of retail clinic patients.

Young adults, most likely not to have health insurance, are going to walk-in clinics for basic care, and if those clinics were not available, they wouldn't go to anyone. Apparently, Lyme patients are not the only population underserved by the medical community.