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Posted on 1/14/22 at 2:35 pm to QJenk
quote:Pre-2020. This is what it was.
The entire reason urgent care was invented is for walk-ins. It's for when you need to see a doctor, but don't want to wait a week or 2 to see your personal physician. But it's not serious enough to where you'd need to go to er.
Now, they are completely overwhelmed from open to close in most locations.
People need to stop getting tested for a cold.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 2:38 pm to HoustonChick86
quote:I seem to wait around for 30+ minutes for scheduled doctors appointments as well..
I prefer urgent care places that do take appointments so I am not just sitting around waiting.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 2:54 pm to Ryan3232
Most people get tested because the need the positive for employers and don’t want to be a Douche and spread it to others
Posted on 1/14/22 at 2:58 pm to Ryan3232
Right, its why I try and do telehealth visits whenever possible. Plus they are free through my insurance so I don't have to sit around waiting when I know what is wrong with me.
Only once have they told me I really need you to go see someone in person because I can't give a proper diagnosis. He was pretty certain of what it was (a stye on my eye, but literally my entire eye was swollen shut). I made an urgent care appointment and walked right in and within a second of the doctor walking in he was like you have a stye here is your antibiotic. See ya. I've never had a stye grow on the inside of my eyelid to the point of having it swell shut. I thought it was a bug bit that just was taking forever to heal.
Only once have they told me I really need you to go see someone in person because I can't give a proper diagnosis. He was pretty certain of what it was (a stye on my eye, but literally my entire eye was swollen shut). I made an urgent care appointment and walked right in and within a second of the doctor walking in he was like you have a stye here is your antibiotic. See ya. I've never had a stye grow on the inside of my eyelid to the point of having it swell shut. I thought it was a bug bit that just was taking forever to heal.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:01 pm to dualed
I went to the dollar store and the cashier tried to tell me the item I bought was more than a dollar. I told her that she may want to change the sign out front…
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:10 pm to dualed
Urgent cares have been packed since the start of the school year back in August. I sat in one for 5hrs waiting for my son to get a mono test back in September.
I'd rather have an appointment than sit in that waiting room again.
I'd rather have an appointment than sit in that waiting room again.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:11 pm to dualed
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. I told her they may want to change the sign out front.
exactly, welcome to Biden's world.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:15 pm to Ponchy Tiger
I got an oil change and it took 37 minutes, not 5 minutes. I told them may want to change the sign out front
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:17 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Could be worse. Many rural areas, like where I am from, have seen most/all hospitals close completely due to ACA compliance costs and COVID killing off revenue streams.
People are literally dying because of it, several people have had strokes or heart attacks and lack of immediate care meant they died in their front yard or in transit.
Imagine living in a rural town and your only option is a minimum 40 minute ride to nearest ER, 1 hour or more to competent ER. My daughter broke her leg while visiting grandparents, and we rushed to ER, only to have to drive to Atlanta for pediatric care we needed. Luckily they let us drive her instead of an ambulance ride that would have cost god knows how much.
People are literally dying because of it, several people have had strokes or heart attacks and lack of immediate care meant they died in their front yard or in transit.
Imagine living in a rural town and your only option is a minimum 40 minute ride to nearest ER, 1 hour or more to competent ER. My daughter broke her leg while visiting grandparents, and we rushed to ER, only to have to drive to Atlanta for pediatric care we needed. Luckily they let us drive her instead of an ambulance ride that would have cost god knows how much.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:17 pm to Ingeniero
quote:Itchy taint is pretty urgent. You want to try to get through a zoom meeting with that going on?
People are using urgent care clinics as their personal covid testing sites every time their taint itches.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:57 pm to dualed
They’re going to appointment only because they’re overwhelmed right now with all the wahoos going there for the sniffles.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 3:57 pm to dualed
The UC nearest my location has been doing appointments for a year or more.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:12 pm to dualed
I don't understand these operations. They seem like they are popping up all over, but I thought the point was to be open during the time doctor offices are not.. But I notice they are not open during times I would think would be the best time to open.
Obviously there is a reason for it. Maybe there is a certain time when it is too much of a cost risk to stay open, but it would seem like 3PM - Midnight would be the time to be open.
Obviously there is a reason for it. Maybe there is a certain time when it is too much of a cost risk to stay open, but it would seem like 3PM - Midnight would be the time to be open.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:19 pm to OweO
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it would seem like 3PM - Midnight would be the time to be open.
That would defeat the purpose of going for a work note, also no employee would work that shift. If it’s a true urgency then that’s what an ER is for, otherwise it can wait til the next day
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:19 pm to dualed
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I told her they may want to change the sign out front.
I’m sure the girl working for minimum wage who looked up from her iPhone for 10 seconds was devastated.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:24 pm to dualed
For a while the urgent care place by us stopped during urgent care and only did walk in rapid covid tests.
There was no other place in St. Bernard who was doing rapid tests. I assume they were making crazy bank.
It also seems like people have started using the urgent care as their PCP. If I'm sick and need to see a doc I can call my PCP and maybe he gets me in late today or tomorrow. My PCP co-pay is $25. Or... I can go to urgent care, be seen pretty quickly, and move on... and my co-pay is $50.
Most people will pay the extra $25 to be seen sooner.
There was no other place in St. Bernard who was doing rapid tests. I assume they were making crazy bank.
It also seems like people have started using the urgent care as their PCP. If I'm sick and need to see a doc I can call my PCP and maybe he gets me in late today or tomorrow. My PCP co-pay is $25. Or... I can go to urgent care, be seen pretty quickly, and move on... and my co-pay is $50.
Most people will pay the extra $25 to be seen sooner.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:26 pm to OweO
quote:
But I notice they are not open during times I would think would be the best time to open.
Fewer PCPs these days. More people needing care during day.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:27 pm to DaBeerz
But I am sure you have a lot of people who go to the ER for bullshite reasons that they would have gone to an urgent care if one was open. Or even for something like getting stitches, etc...
But yeah, I thought about how difficult it would be to find people willing to work those hours.
But yeah, I thought about how difficult it would be to find people willing to work those hours.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:28 pm to OweO
Urgent care isn't just for people needing to get seen after 5:00 when their PCP's office closes. Lots of PCP's may be all booked up on appointments for a week or so out. So if you're trying to get a prescription for tamiflu or needing to be checked for strep throat, waiting a week to see your PCP isn't ideal but neither is going to an ER. So walk-in urgent care fills that void.
Its just that covid testing has overwhelmed a lot of urgent care clinics because so many people are going in to get covid tests with no symptoms or a case of sniffles. Stuff that would've just been treated with OTC cold medicine at home without ever making a trip to a doctor's office 2 years ago.
Its just that covid testing has overwhelmed a lot of urgent care clinics because so many people are going in to get covid tests with no symptoms or a case of sniffles. Stuff that would've just been treated with OTC cold medicine at home without ever making a trip to a doctor's office 2 years ago.
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