A compromise – having physicians staff retail clinics:
The Duane Reade retail clinics, advertised at the stores as “Duane Reade Walk-In Medical Care,” function as private medical practices that lease space from Duane Reade. Despite the name, doctors own the clinics, which have low overhead costs in a city where setting up a practice can be wildly prohibitive.
Doctors’ groups said they had fewer objections to doctor-run retail clinics, because the doctors are accountable to a state licensing board.
