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re: Ridiculous Reasons People Go To Urgent Care
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:37 pm to ksayetiger
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:37 pm to ksayetiger
NPs can write scripts.
I know people that go to urgent cares for stuff because their doctor is booked solid for three weeks.
And some seem to be confusing urgent care facilities with the emergency room.
I know people that go to urgent cares for stuff because their doctor is booked solid for three weeks.
And some seem to be confusing urgent care facilities with the emergency room.
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Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:40 pm to ksayetiger
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Can an NP write a script?
About a year and a half ago I had a spider bite that I let get worse than I should have and ended up having to go to an urgent care. The NP cut through the infection, packed it up and did the whole process.. The wrote me a script for antibiotics. He even asked me "it is probably going to hurt for the next few days, I can write you a script for of the good stuff for pain".. I told him I would just take tylenol if it got bad enough.. So it seems like they can pretty much do it all.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:44 pm to OweO
My wife's work would make her get a Dr's note any time our kids were sick when she called off. If she didn't get one, she would get fired. So she would have to take our kid to urgent care because it's hard to get into a Dr just to get a note.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:49 pm to OweO
I go there instead of the actual dr office because I can get in and out within 45 minutes. My dr's office is full of democrats who are there for headaches and it takes so long.
I gladly pay the higher copay for the urgent care facility when I'm sick.
I gladly pay the higher copay for the urgent care facility when I'm sick.
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:51 pm to OweO
quote:why do you seem to be always worried about what others are doing. Can't you stay in your own hula hoop for 5 seconds.
It just blows my mind when people go to the urgent care for something like a common cold, a headache, etc
You do a bunch of bitching about what or how others do things and then you saddle up the "this is how I do it" pony and trot around.
Has it ever occurred to you that it's really none of your concern most of the time and you way not be best for someone else and folks don't need you to explain hows things should be for the world.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:53 pm to OweO
Some people are just giant hypochondriacs
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:55 pm to OweO
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hey hire a doctor who probably went to medical school in the Caribbean (I assume they would be cheaper to hire)?
As long as the two doctors are in the same specialty and providing the same service, there won't be a difference in cost based on one having a Caribbean education.
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 1:55 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 1:56 pm to OweO
I went once to get something to make me stop puking because I was alone at work and they wouldn't let me go home.
They gave me fluids too, then I had to go back to work.
About the only time I've gone.
They gave me fluids too, then I had to go back to work.
About the only time I've gone.
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:06 pm to BearsFan
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there won't be a difference in cost based on one having a Caribbean education.
I'm thinking he was implying that the shitty run urgent care place wouldn't have to pay a doctor like that as much of a salary.
I don't like Urgent cares in general.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:09 pm to ksayetiger
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants can write prescriptions.
Urgent care facilities do have MD's but usually they're on call or sit in their office.
Wish we could turn people away from the ER but the sue happy poors and democrats would be visiting lawyer offices every day.
General guideline though (I know I do it on purpose) if you're not a true emergency, I make it my life goal for you to sit there at least an hour or more before we call you back.
Urgent care facilities do have MD's but usually they're on call or sit in their office.
Wish we could turn people away from the ER but the sue happy poors and democrats would be visiting lawyer offices every day.
General guideline though (I know I do it on purpose) if you're not a true emergency, I make it my life goal for you to sit there at least an hour or more before we call you back.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:13 pm to CorkSoaker
We have one a couple blocks away that we use as a Dr office. I like the Dr there and he is an MD. I went once when I threw my back out and he gave me a shot of demerol. I don't think a NP can administer that med.
ETA: I think several people in here are confusing urgent care with ER.
ETA: I think several people in here are confusing urgent care with ER.
This post was edited on 6/11/17 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:20 pm to shawnlsu
Yeah. I was just thinking that too 
Definitely not the same thing.
Definitely not the same thing.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:34 pm to BingWaterTiger
quote:
Has it ever occurred to you that it's really none of your concern most of the time and you way not be best for someone else and folks don't need you to explain hows things should be for the world.
This is something that can arguably have an effect on other people in several different ways. First, going to see the doctor, whether it is in the ER, urgent care or anywhere else, for something like a common cold, a 24 hr virus, etc..That is wasting time for people who actually needs the doctor's attention so I think it is something to discuss.
Also, I am sure a lot of people who go to the ER for minor reasons, in which a doctor is not required, has health insurance that is paid for by tax dollars.
I don't have statistics to back this up and I don't really know how it all works, but I have to think there is a certain percentage of money used to fund people who have their health insurance paid for by the government, that is used to pay for "frivolous" doctor visits (whether it be the ER, UC, etc).
So again, I think it is worth discussing. If you don't then why waste your time coming in here to tell me what you think I am doing?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:36 pm to OweO
I'll take your word for it there are some real pussies out there
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:43 pm to The Cool No 9
I came down with food poisoning last year. For two days it came out of every hole non-stop. I refused to go in until my son and wife forced me to go and even at that point I didnt want to go to the ER. Basically paid urgent care $130 to call me an ambulance and spent 4 days in the hospital.
Guess I am the opposite of most people. I try to avoid hospitals at all costs.
Guess I am the opposite of most people. I try to avoid hospitals at all costs.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:44 pm to shawnlsu
quote:
ETA: I think several people in here are confusing urgent care with ER.
Whether it is an ER or UC, there are people who go for reasons they absolutely do not have to go for.
Of course it is a bigger strain when this happens at the ER. There are people being brought in with serious injuries from a vehicle accident, people who got shot, serious situations that need immediate attention.. And there are people in the waiting room demanding to see a doctor because their kid sneezed several times during the day.
UC not so much, but still. If it is a busy night, people are in there because they have an inflection that needs checking out, or maybe sprained an ankle really bad and not sure if they broke it or not, people with legit illnesses.. And they have to wait because people came in because their kid had a running nose.
Some people might not know the difference between the two, but I think the concept still applies.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:47 pm to Aspercel
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and they wouldn't let me go home.
WTF? Did they not think "maybe she has a virus of some sort, it is probably best for her to go home just in case, so no one else will catch it"?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:51 pm to OweO
Nope. I was alone in the office. Nobody would come in on their day off and I wasn't allowed to close. I was puking while showing apartments.
Thankfully I don't work for that company anymore.
Thankfully I don't work for that company anymore.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:52 pm to Aspercel
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About the only time I've gone.
I am not saying its a bad thing to go to one. Like I said, I had to go once because I had a spider bite that got really infected. In fact, I know exactly when it was. It was the Saturday before the LSU vs Bama game, when we had a bye week in 2015. And that was probably the best possible time for it to get as bad as it did because, if the game was that weekend, it wouldn't have mattered how bad it got, I would have been at the game (actually I think it was away.. so I would have been watching it on tv and still wouldn't have gone).
Posted on 6/11/17 at 2:54 pm to OweO
That oxycontin scrip won't write itself.
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