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Seeing a doctor regularly can be challenging enough for some patients. Going home with prescriptions in hand doesn't guarantee care, either, as they require trips to a drugstore. With the opening of an onsite pharmacy, KU Wichita Internal Medicine's Midtown Clinic recently took a big step toward lowering a hurdle and the likelihood treatments and prescriptions are interrupted. "It's meeting the patient where they are," Stephanie Kreutzer, a compliance analyst for the KU Wichita Medical Practice Association, says of the pharmacy. "A lot of our patients really struggle with transportation, and this directly solves that problem. They can walk out of their office visit and get their medications right there at the pharmacy and be ready to go." Pharmacy meets patients where they're at – KU's Midtown Clinic 22