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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Wall Street Journal


Johanna Whitaker gestures as Katrina Froelich and Janet Philichi look on while giving their opinions about the patient rooms to Take Care employees Lauren Tierney and Kate Ferris at a "Take Care" Health Clinic inside a Rite-Aid store on October 3, 2005 in Milwaukie, Oregon. Most major drug store chains, including Rite-Aid, have launched programs to put health clinics, staffed by prescription-dispensing nurses inside their stores.

I shot this yesterday for the Wall Street Journal. The story is that Rite-Aid is putting Health Clinics into the pharmacies, staffed with Rx writing Nurse Practitioners. The idea is that is you have the flu or other minor problems, you don't need to go to your doctor, just go to Rite-Aid and they will check you out and write you a prescription. With Oregon now requiring a prescription for cold medicine, that could be a very convenient thing. The shoot was rather boring, the clinic is not actually open yet, they just had people go through in "focus groups" to tell them what they thought of it.

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