CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is again promoting free flu shots for its members, but this year’s message conveys a blow to retailers: Get a flu shot at your doctor’s office. Supermarkets and drug stores are off the list of locations where the health care giant will sponsor flu clinics, according to media reports. Area doctors say the change is due to concerns of preserving the doctor-patient relationship rather than concerns over losing business, reports said. "We didn't get ours until early November," Dr. Wells Edmundson, a Raleigh internist, told the Raleigh News & Observer of last year’s batch of shots. "By then, half of the patients had gone everywhere else, and we were left holding 450 doses."
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