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How Urgent is My Emergency? Urgent Care Vs Emergency Room
Whether you slipped and sliced the pad of your finger open while preparing vegetables for dinner, or your five year old jumped off the playground and is crying due to severe ankle pain, or your fourteen year old has come back from baseball practice with a large, dark bruise on his forehead and a massive…
Why Urgent Care and Not the ER?
Urgent care facilities have become a convenient and important delivery service for health care. 85% of such facilities operate 7 days a week, with more than 2/3 of them opening before 9:00 AM on weekdays. Such flexibility makes these organizations ideal for busy parents or elderly folks who may find making appointments with other doctors…
Three Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Do When Finding a Doctor
Believe it or not, more people die of heart disease than of AIDS and all cancers combined. In fact, there are about 800 million Americans who have one or more types of heart disease. It’s so big a problem in the U.S. that it causes about 600,000 deaths every year.If you want to lower your…
Are Urgent Care Centers Helping Local Hospitals?
Across the United States, urgent care centers are becoming an increasingly popular method of obtaining needed medical care. With 75% of urgent care locations conveniently placed in suburban areas, as well as hundreds of others in rural and urban neighborhoods, urgent care medicine has become a fast and affordable alternative to emergency room. As more…