Health & Fitness
Hello From Doctors Express!
An introduction about who we are and why we started Doctors Express!
This blog is about you – about helping you maintain a healthy lifestyle for you and your family.
But to understand just how important your health and wellbeing is to us, you need to know a little about us.
As a young ER doctor in Harlem, Dr. Scott Burger handled life-threateninginjuries – everything from gunshot wounds to tiger bites. But the doctor’s stressdidn’t come from these cases; it came from long lines of non-emergency casesclogging up his ER – burning out doctors, frustrating patients and draining the system.
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It was a national healthcare crisis that politicians and the medical community couldn’t seem to fix. Dr. Burger consulted a former college roommate, a successful entrepreneur and franchisor, to help him with a small undertaking: cure the country’s ailing health care system.
Their prescription: franchise urgent care nationally with a reliable, recognizable medical center on every corner in America. This solution would take the non-emergency cases out of emergency rooms and provide quick, affordable and accessible healthcare to all Americans.
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The first Doctors Express Urgent Care Center opened its doors in 2005, in a strip mall right outside Baltimore, MD with Dr. Burger as the top physician.
Five years later, 113 Doctors Express franchises have been awarded in 23 states– including Doctors Express in Creve Coeur – with a total of 56 centers set to open up by the end of the year. “We have learned that when we treat healthcare like most other businesses, with excellent customer service, quick, convenient and affordable treatment, we give families the healthcare solution that’s missingin America. We filled a void in healthcare,” says Dr. Burger.
When patients come in to a Doctors Express, there is always a physician on site during all hours of operation, unlike many other urgent cares. Patients can get x-rays, treatment for broken bones, medications, physicals, flu shots and more atDoctors Express in Creve Coeur, without an appointment or long waits.
In the coming months, this blog will provide one more service to the Creve Coeurcommunity: Offering important, health-related information and news to improvethe lives of you and your family.