CVS Minute Clinic

Saturday rolls around making 3 days of no sleep from coughing and coughing and … you guessed it. coughing. and I had had enough. I got there at 1:20. They to go lunch from 130−200pm, so after a few coughs and sniffles she comes out to tell me she will be going to lunch and i could come back in 30 min. Thank you no, I will wait right here :) SO she comes back after lunch, brings me right back. I let her now whats been going on. no sleep, not able to stop coughing even after spending stupid amount on Delsyum which tastes like poo. and Robitussin… and whatever other crap I bought, that didn’t work. ($ 30.00 later) she told me I had Bronchitis, and apparently had an ear infection i had managed to aggravate into poping a hole into the ear drum. She took extra time to go over the meds she was giving me vs the meds I was on and how they could interact, went ahead and called it back to the pharmacy,. and sent me on my way. She was nice and direct and although im not feeling stellar, I dont still feel as bad as I did, and ive been getting a lot more sleep :)

When I woke up with my eye crusted shut for the second day in a row (TMI, should’ve warned you, sorry), I thought I probably had pink eye. Since I don’t have an internist/​general practitioner, I looked for the fastest, easiest way to get the treatment that I needed. This Minute Clinic is only 5 miles from my office.
At 10:30 on a summer Tuesday morning, there was no one in line. I checked in using the electronic system that’s just outside the door. The NP was on the phone at the time, and by the time she hung up, she was attending to me. It’s nice that the registration is electronic so that your record is loaded into the system. Based on the questions asked, the implication is that now I can go to any Minute Clinic, and my info will already be there.
After scanning my ID and my insurance card, she asked me triage questions, then checked my vitals, then examined my eyes. After confirming that I wouldn’t have any interactions with any current medications, she called in the prescription to the attached pharmacy.
While I did have to update my info in the pharmacy’s system (apparently it doesn’t talk to each other, probably HIPPA/​privacy rules), I was in and out in less than an hour and for $ 50 ($ 20 for the co-​pay and $ 30 for the scrip). Much easier than finding a GP.
At the Minute Clinic website, they list the things that they’ll treat, and it’s pretty much all the stuff that you can self-​diagnose fairly easily but need a prescription to treat.
#Yelp365 — ¹⁷⁹⁄₃₆₅