My advise is,….do not get sick on weekends, or at night. The ubiquitous hospital clinics I just mentioned include many urgent care facilities, where you are welcomed up until 8PM. I am just about to head to one now, because it's the weekend.
Let me clue you in on Urgent Care Facilities. They are manned by physicians who cannot or do not want to work hard to get ahead. For example, my daughter was in Shreveport visiting a friend. She got sick and developed a generalize abdominal pain. An oriental woman (physician) who could not speak English, diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection. She called me and after talking-to her for about 3 minutes could see it was not a simple UTI. I told her to go back to the clinic and have that idiot doctor call me. I spoke with the doctor, who explained that she had diagnosed a bladder infection. I nicely asked her if she had considered a surgical abdomen….it sounded to me like an appendicitis. She excused herself said that she would do a CBC with a differential white blood cell count. She then evaluated my daughter only then considering an acute abdomen. She then agreed with me that it was probably appendicitis. She went to the hospital and saw a surgeon who diagnosed her with acute appendicitis. She had her appendix taken out and went home 24 hours later.
If she had not been diagnosed and operated the appendix would have ruptured converting a 24 hour stay in the hospital to a 7 day stay for generalized peritonitis, possible abcess sequestration and development, bowel obstruction or worse. I live in Texas 250 miles from Shreveport La. Most people do not have a father who are general surgeons and who has a high index of suspicion for acute surgical abdomens. So……..you conclude what will happen. This taking down the best (not perfect) health care system in the world will cost lives and marked increase morbidity for patients. What a shame.