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Originally Posted by mikeod
I would just add that the facilities mentioned above should not be used for "critical" issues. They are urgent care clinics, best used for conditions that need to be evaluated soon, but are not life threatening. If you feel you have a life threatening situation, call 911.
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I agree with this poster's comment! Urgent Care facilities here are for non-lift-threatening conditions--they will tell you this. They're to be used if you can't see your primary doctor for something, such as the flu, a sinus or ear infection, some kinds of wounds etc. They also shouldn't be used as your only source of a primary practioner.
As for the E.R.---it's true they triage patients according to their condition. IF your's in non-life-threatening you won't take precidence over someone whose needing emergency care. IF they were expecting 5 ambulances then that would definately be taking precidence. I'm sorry that you felt your care wasn't prioritized. I do believe that most hospitals do this, no matter what part of the country one lives in. I had the opportunity (if you will) of going to The Villages Emergency Room last year. While I felt my status should have been looked at expediously, I was in there for 3 to 4 hours. I'm sure the personnel were doing the best they could given the circumstances. I, later was admitted after which I can't say enough about the excellant care that I was given. This all happened on a holiday weekend when my physician couldn't be contacted as well. Hopefully you won't base your experience on this event!! There are very good doctors in this area...as in every area of the country you will also find some that aren't so good.