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...fall of 1990, UHS scrapped its first-floor walk-in clinic, which allowed any student who wanted treatment to come in and get it, in favor of a new rapid access system of appointments. The walk-in system had caused patients to wait for hours...
Under the rapid access system, sick students who call in are supposed to receive 15-minute appointments either that day or the next--often with a nurse practitioner. Many doctors have touted this as the answer to UHS access problems, but others...
...People are real dissatisfied with access, and rapid access appointments are less than entirely satisfactory," Zuromskis says. "But it gives students more leeway to get care quicker...
Chief of Medicine Dr. Charles Weingarten says he generally likes the rapid access system because it increases the likelihood that students will be paired up with their primary care provider. But he also says that large health problems, like a recent flu epidemic, occasionally overwhelm the appointment system...
...There are tradeoffs," says Weingarten. "If we schedule 15-minute rapid access appointments, that puts the doctor under pressure...