Health Care System

Instead of waiting for one weeks to see your doctor if you have a sore throat, his choice in the past may have been in the emergency room of a local hospital. Meanwhile, you may be eligible to wait for hours in a crowded noisy room. Then, to add insult, you can click on the hefty insurance contract.

This is changing. Walk in cinics, also known as retail health clinics are shown in the strip centers, megastores and shopping malls and drugstores. News, Walgreens, and Wal-goals in business in March. At the end of 2007, has a 921-walk in the country such as health, compared with only 129 years ago. So there is growth, not lack phenominal; category as Starbucks. Within the next five years, their number is expected to exceed 3000.

Search cheaper, faster and more accessible health care is fueling this trend. Timely and cost of health care is increasingly difficult to obtain as doctors continue to move into specialty. The reason is simple. They pay better.

Some doctors are fighting back. Dr. Jim King, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians has developed a program that allows patients with minor problems, the kind that can be treated in the hospital, walk in to see a doctor within 45 minutes to include in a number of practical experiences to become more heart patients have their usual habits, but so far they are still very few and rare.

So in the meantime, if you have a cold, sinus problems or a mistake of some sort that does not have the ability to be serious, people go to the hospital can provide a solution. But before you go running to the last target to be aware of the shortcomings can.