Letters to the Editor
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@Mormandoctor
"Will a drop-in clinic practitioner take the time to do the right thing, even at the risk of alienating a paying customer? Or will they do the easy quick "solution" of writing that prescription for Augmentin and keeping the customer satisfied?"
The question you pose is certainly a valid one. But it does not apply exclusively to a drip-in clinic practitioner, it applies to all practitioners. And it's not apparent to me that the drop-in guy is predisposed the behave differently from any other practitioner.
[Note to you, Doctor: My father was a GP in NYC, so long ago that he made house calls and frequently took his 6-yr-old son, me, along with him. He would not have prescribed Augmentin unless it was unquestionably indicated. But even back them, most of his contemporaries would have, I'm afraid.]