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Originally Posted by esquire
That would make sense. My experience is like CoryB's, I remember going there as a kid. Now the only person I know who goes there is my dad. He is a patient of Dr Bartlett who is, no joke, closing in on 100. His clinic probably hasn't changed since the building was built... it looks like a set from Mad Men up there ("Pete Campbell contracts syphilis and doesn't want Trudy to find out").
Why did they all bail? The building looks perfectly serviceable and the location is convenient.
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I don't really know. Probably a lot of what you and CoryB are saying though: it's more convenient to be in the suburbs.
But the model has also changed. Outside of specialists, it's all about pumping pharmaceuticals. You'll notice that there's nearly always a pharmacy outside of the medical clinic now. Generally speaking, the pharmacist is offering incentives to the doctors to keep the scrips coming. Free rent, free administration, accounts in the docs wife's name where a couple bucks from every scrip is being deposited, free trips - you name it, it's happening. And that model doesn't work when you don't have a location that can easily put a pharmacy near it. Just having one in the building is great for the pharmacist, but it doesn't do much for the physicians. If you ever look in the Manitoba health magazine - I can't remember the name offhand - you'll see ads for pharmacists seeking doctors with regularity. That's for this reason. The pharmacy doesn't exist without the clinic.