Minute Clinic/Take Care Clinic Physical Exams

Just curious how extensive the physical exams given by Riteaid and CVS are?

Most of the ones that I've seen advertise sports physicals only. I not sure if they actually do just a routine physical. If they do, it would be very interesting to try them out. After all, the prices are very reasonable. Why not give it a try and report back to us. 😁

I heard form another thread that one individual actually gotten a genital exam at his sports physical at a minute clinic once. Tho I'm not sure if he was completely honest or not

I hear form another thread that one individual actually gotten a genital exam at his sports physical at a minute clinic once. Tho I'm not sure if he was completely honest or not

That was me and yes it did happen. This was a number of years ago and in the northeast part of the US. As I noted I had a physical form that noted genital exam. I actually gave them the form and asked if they did that type of exam. I did not simply request a sports physical or other listed service. It was specific to a volunteer program I was going to participate in that required good physical health.

In my opinion, if a pharmacy or minute clinic advertises that they perform sports physicals, then they should do the exam as listed on the form provided by the athlete.

Now, if there is no form provided, then I’d expect the exam to be extremely brief. The phrase “sports physical” can be interpreted in almost anyway, and with no guidance provided, the examiners would likely make it as short as possible.

In my opinion, if a pharmacy or minute clinic advertises that they perform sports physicals, then they should do the exam as listed on the form provided by the athlete.

This is typical of what is to be expected when the profit motive is introduced into medicine. Yes, doctors as individuals need to make a living of course, but when corporate medicine gets into the act, things become very impersonal very rapidly and efficiency and cost reductions become very important. All of which reduces the quality of what should be offered. In places like these, it's probably all about cost-cutting and profit margins.

So, the less time spent on an exam, the more efficient income becomes.

For my sports physical my senior year of high school, I went to the minute clinic and it was actually very thorough. First, we went through the whole questionnaire form. Then she had me take of my shoes, socks, and shirt. Got height, weight, BP taken. She looked in my ear, eyes, nose throat. Listened to heart and lungs, felt my chest and lymph nodes in my neck and armpits. Listened to and felt my stomach. Felt lymph nodes and pulses in my groin by lifting my shorts and underwear. Also did the scoliosis test and checked all my joints, including my fingers and toes. Then she actually had me stand up and did a full testicular exam and cough test. I was actually really surprised that everything on the form was covered. Prior to that, I'd had physicals at the minuteclinic that were more similar to the ones you would expect.

Of course with many of these locations employing NPs of which many are female, it is probably a concern there is no opportunity for a chaperone with male patients. I agree that if you cannot do the job correctly or completely due to these concerns you should not advertise it as a service. I know some of these doc-in-a-box locations state they do not treat male UTIs.

Well they are, after all, called Minute Clinics, which could refer to the wait time, or could refer to the time spent per patient. Here we have Concentra, and some hospitals with 'express care,' again referring to the wait time. When I have shown up at the former with a form, they skip what they 'don't do' for occupational health physicals, such as genital and rectal. The physical otherwise follows the form requirements to the letter, which makes sense because they sign off on it at the end. Were someone to show up for the generic, no form supplied, physical, it would likely be cursory.

So can we conclude that if you go to one of these "express" clinics you Don't know what your going to get. After reading all of the responses here and on another post about minute clinics theirs a back and forth on how detailed these exams can get with several people claiming they had genital exams and others say no such thing happened to them when they went.

So can we conclude that if you go to one of these "express" clinics you Don't know what your going to get.

That's absolutely true. And it's also no different at all than the experience going to a better equipped urgent care clinic, or even a regular doctor! It all just depends on that practice, what the doctor feels like doing that day, etc. In my personal experience, even if you take the same exam form to three different establishments, you'll get three completely different exams.

We did it we answered a question and all agreed on it!! It all depends on what the RT feels like doing