Posted on 02/14/2013 4:42:57 PM PST by ropin71
By the way, as much as I dislike Obamacare, none of this has anything to do with Obamacare. Urgent care centers have been marginal for decades. (If you work in one, my apology; there are a few good ones. I’m sure yours is one.)
I went to urgent care when I broke my foot last year and they frayed right there and also made an appointment for Monday morning (it was saturday) for me to see the ortho dr was given crutches and told not to walk on it at all.
x rayed dern autocorrect.
Not O/T but maybe a little: Hand injuries can be very serious and not all the symptoms present immediately. Stick by getting that X-Ray, even now. If they don’t see anything and it still smarts in a month, get her to a hand specialist for an MRI.
Seriously.
Definitely word of mouth is the way to go.
We had an urgent care in our neighborhood. They took two X-rays of a friend of mine and said he had pneumonia. When treatment was not working, he went back, and a new person was there who looked at the X-rays and said no pneumonia. They are now closed.
That said, my local emergency room was not great when I dislocated my shoulder and had to call someone in from off-duty to put it back into place after repeated attempts.
I also remember a doctor who had never heard of swimmer’s ear, apparently, and kept poking around in my daughter’s ear looking for something until she finally broke down in tears.
It all depends on the doctor, is my conclusion. You takes yer chances.
There ya go, avoid the doc in a box. Either go to your own doctor or go to a real ER.
Don't ever go to a Centura hospital either. I had a blood clot in my leg and called ahead. Told them that I had a blood clot and that I would need a wheelchair by the time I got in and then described that my leg was white from my knee down and the pain was excruciating. They said "come on in" I got there and after the same thing, blood pressure, exam, etc. They said that they couldn't treat a blood clot there. They gave me 20mg of morphine that didn't help a bit, kicked a guy with a heart attack out of an ambulance and rushed me twenty miles back to where I started from and then twenty miles beyond that to another hospital. I almost lost my leg because of them.
sounds like you needed a vascular surgeon not just a "clot". two types of clots... 1. venous 2. arterial
What I see in your post was that they didn't communicate... or they did and the pain and the morphine shaded your memory. Either way, glad your leg is still with you.
'If it ain't bleedin, don't rub it.'
It was arterial and was opened up by a radiologist and later “fixed†sort of by a GENERAL surgeon, but that’s a whole nuther story. Again Centura. I had an awesome vascular surgeon do the other leg so I can really see the difference between a quack who ruined my leg and a skilled physician who had me in and out in no time with full use of my leg. The other- not so much. I hate Centura! The root cause was an aneurysm behind the knee in each leg.
You live in Central NJ, your wife works for JNJ, she has the nearly best private health insurance available in the state, you should have driven directly to any Summit Medical Group office and would have gotten immediate first world care.
You have JNJ insurance, why the hell would you not go to a proper Medical Group office?
http://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/locations/
Your wife has a log-in for her insurance plan, or she can call HR and get a new username/password, that provides a list of providers in the JNJ network of doctors. Try that if you want more options.
I use the CentraCare clinics provided by FL Hospital (Orlando area), and had no problem. Broke my arm last yr and they handled it well.
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