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Convenience care centers manned by nurse practitioners have enjoyed a surge in popularity. These centers are often located in large retail stores or drug stores and treat non-emergency patients with common ailments. Nurse Practitioners usually staff Convenience Care Centers due to the prohibitive cost of an M.D. staffing. Not everyone believes the convenience care centers concept is ideal, especially those whose concerns focus upon primary health care. They fear fewer people will elect to have a primary care physician and the quality of health care in the end may suffer for the individual. However, convenient care centers have indeed proved a boon to a certain segment of the population and allowed affordable non-emergency health care for persons with no insurance. Maryland Doctors instead have an alternative to convenience care centers in the After Hours or Walk in Clinic. This is a cost effective option for patients that avoids the high cost and long waits of emergency rooms but is better equipped to service the needs of the patient whose medical issues are more pressing or involved. Most walk in Care Centers in Maryland has a Doctor on premises during all operational hours and equipment to deal with x-rays, and dispensing medication. The days when every family had a General Practitioner that treated the entire family in Maryland may be limited due to the rising costs of health care and health care insurance. Alternative affordable ways to access a qualified Doctor in Maryland for minor after hour emergencies, to serve the growing population of underinsured and uninsured patients are being explored and are gaining in popularity. It is generally accepted that for even the healthy individual treatment by a personal physician is the ideal situation. Unfortunately, accidents and minor emergencies do not occur only during office hours when the individual's primary care physician might be available. To meet this need other approaches are necessary especially as the cost of emergency room treatment becomes prohibitive in Maryland as well as the rest of the nation. Even detractors of the convenience care centers and walk in medical centers agree that due to the expense of emergency room treatment for common infections or minor medical ailments after hours, that new means of providing quality health care by Maryland doctors must be made available. Article by: Maryland Doctors ( )
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