Healthcare at Your Fingertips

It used to be that it was rather difficult to acquire a prescription for medication that you needed for your health. Prescriptions used to be handed out sparingly, at the serious discretion of a medical doctor.

Nowadays, people who have serious illnesses are more able to access the prescriptions that they need in order to maintain good health throughout their life. You can get your prescriptions online through many online pharmaceutical websites. 

This change has only occurred within the past decade and there are notable benefits to making prescription drugs more available to the public. Prescription drugs truly have assisted people to live their daily lives in full health. Here are four ways that you are now to access the prescription drugs you need in order to maintain your daily health.

Drop-In Emergency Clinics

More and more, drop-in clinics are sprouting up in residential neighborhoods. Emergency medical clinics like MDNow are making medical services available to those who may not have health insurance.

People are investing in the stocks for these clinics as rapidly as they are investing in RCKT stock. You can drop into any one of these emergency clinics for any number of health reasons. You can use your insurance or you can make the visit without being covered under insurance. It doesn’t necessarily need to be an emergency.

Let’s say for example that you have forgotten to renew the prescription for your diabetes medication. You can stop into one of these emergency clinics without an appointment, just as a drop-in patient. You may have to wait, but the wait should not exceed three hours.

If you go to one of these clinics, you can visit a doctor who will be able to give you an emergency supply of your diabetes medicine. He or she may or may not be able to actually do the testing necessary in order to determine that you need more of the prescription.

However, in the worst-case scenario, the doctor will write you up a prescription for a month’s worth of the medication until you can get into your primary care physician’s office.

Primary Care Physician

The best route for you to take in getting your prescription medications refilled is visiting your primary care physician. This can sometimes be a difficult feat because, oftentimes, primary care physicians have long waiting periods to get an appointment.

Sometimes, you just can’t wait a couple of months to get into the office to get your prescription. Prescriptions are more often than not an emergency need.

This is why it is very important that you make an appointment with your physician at the conclusion of each previous appointment. The second you finish your appointment with your physician, you should make an appointment for the next time that you will see them.

This will make it so that you don’t have a long waiting time in between seeing them without having your medication. It will save you time, hassle, and your health. Always make your next appointment right after the current one is finished, while you are still in the office.

Drugstore Clinics

Some of the major drugstore chains have now made it so that you can visit a nurse or physician in the store. They have opened up quick visit clinics so that you can get the proper healthcare that you need.

These providers will accept health insurance, but you don’t need health insurance in order to see them. You can see a provider at one of these quick visit clinics with just cash in your pocket. 

Those who work at these quick visit clinics are often well-trained and completely professional. You will either see a registered nurse or a practicing physician.

Either way, they will have received their education in the same capacity that any primary care physician will have. For this reason, you should heed their advice and look to them for guidance on your prescriptions.

The Pharmacy

If you just have to wait a couple of days in between your last prescription pill and seeing your doctor, you can always ask the pharmacy if they wouldn’t mind giving you a couple of courtesy pills.

A lot of pharmacies actually have a policy that they will distribute two or three courtesy prescription pills to regular customers who have filled the prescription with their pharmacy on multiple occasions.