Tips for Older Adults Considering Visits to Retail Medical Clinics

BALTIMORE – You’ve seen them at the end of strip shopping centers, inside malls, the back of grocery stores, even inside retail stores like Wal-Mart and Target, they are retail medical clinics. However, when are these locations great for saving money and helping you stay healthy and when should you avoid using them? Today on Good Morning Maryland @ 9, Jamie Costello sat down with Dr. Alicia Arbaje who specializes in geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Arbaje described why the locations have become rather popular for older patients, but cautioned as to knowing when to use them and when a patient should really be going to the Emergency Room or seeing their primary care doctor.
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