My wife was a frequent bladder infection sufferer (she’s gotten better at avoiding them) we did a lot of overnights in the ER on that. Usually it was 4 hours to wait and 4 more for “treatment”. She knew the symptoms by heart so she could walk in and tell them what was wrong. Of course it’s not going to kill you for weeks so all the possible heart attacks and asthma attacks go before you, and it’s not contagious so everybody that might infect the waiting room goes too. Worse was when we got good insurance, once they find you’ve got good insurance hospitals like to do ALL the tests. I’ve gotten a lot of reading done at 2AM in uncomfortable chairs.
The reemergence of urgent care clinics has been a God send, her last infection was 2 hours round trip, tell them she’s got an infection, urine sample, yup here’s your scrip.
“The reemergence of urgent care clinics has been a God send, “
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I agree.
We had several in our area during the 80s called HealthStop-—they were terrific and then poof!—— they were gone.
Several new urgent care facilities near me now——I haven’t needed to go yet. (fingers crossed)
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