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What we are learning is that "non hospital" medical facilities suck.

I can tell you that I don't trust you as a doctor unless you are physically located in a hospital, preferably the larger the better.

If I have an appendicitis on the way to my normal procedure, I want to be within less than 100M of an emergency room already.

Small scale/small time medical offices were a mistake and I'll never change my mind.

[rafram]

That just doesn't make sense to me. If I'm going for a regular checkup or a non-surgical appointment, there's absolutely no reason that I need my doctor's office to be within a hospital complex. Sure, I could have an emergency on the way to my non-emergency appointment, but I could also have an emergency on the way to the grocery store or the gym or the park, and I don't demand that those facilities also be built within a hospital.

[ars]

> What we are learning is that "non hospital" medical facilities suck.

That's really not true, just because you have one bad example does not mean they all are. In general the non-hospital facilities just do one thing, and they do it very very well.

> I can tell you that I don't trust you as a doctor unless you are physically located in a hospital, preferably the larger the better.

That's terrible!! Really. Putting the doctor in a hospital makes him a hospital employee usually, you are asking for the end of private practice for Doctors, you are asking for the end of personal relationships with doctors.

[kccqzy]

Agreed. It's also for patient convenience. More than once I was at a small medical office and was told that the doctor had prescribed a certain diagnostic test for which the facility didn't have the equipment for. So I make an appointment at a real hospital, and then make a follow-up appointment at the small medical office for reviewing the results. It's tiring.

[ars]

You would have to do that anyway. Just because you are physically located in the hospital for your checkup does not mean there is magically some availability for this procedure.

They would schedule you, and you come back.

[its-summertime]

And yet one of the most renowned dermatologists in my region only worked in clinic

I've also known hospitals to refer people to clinics too.