Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston (Post 2324423)

If the insurance covers ER visits, why go to urgent care? Go to UF The Villages Hospital ER. Wait may be longer but better option imo...

Originally Posted by flkayaker (Post 2324794)

Yet here you are still alive and typing away. Driving while on your deathbed? Do you care so little for the other people on the road? You might have hurt someone.

Originally Posted by Dilligas (Post 2324825)

The reason the wait may be longer is your answer precisely......urgent care is for cuts and bruises, flu, colds, etc. Urgent care facilities generally help you quickly and charge significantly less. Emergency Room (ER) are for emergencies, conditions that require specialized attention, care, and facilities. When overloaded with patients that belong in Urgent Care facilities, the ERs will back up and treat patients per their individual emergencies (triage) and leave flu, cold, bruises, cuts patients sitting for long time.

Originally Posted by MandoMan (Post 2324766)

In February, a friend of mine returned from a cruise and that very day was hit hard by both Covid and Influenza. She stopped at some urgent care place in the area and was tested positive, but the doctor and the nurse practitioner she saw both refused to prescribe Paxlovid for the Covid because they didn’t believe in it. What? I took it a month earlier, and apart from the nasty taste in my mouth for the five days I took it, it was like a miracle drug. I felt much better within four hours. My friend, who is disabled, was sick in bed for a couple weeks, and the chest congestion turned into pneumonia. All told, she was unable to work for three weeks, even though she works from home. All because the doctor believed gossip about Paxlovid.

Originally Posted by Bob04090 (Post 2324420)

We are snowbirds and my wife cut herself the other day. Our insurance only covers urgent care or ER visits. Can anyone suggest a good urgent care facility?

Originally Posted by justjim (Post 2324895)

Hard to believe that a doctor would be that uncaring or incompetent. Wow!

Originally Posted by Mthensley89@gmail.com (Post 2324875)

Dr Santos/411 Urgent care on Old Mill Rd by Sumter Landing treated me a couple of times and was good. No appointment, just walk in.

Originally Posted by Inexes@aol.com (Post 2324942)

There is NO DR Santos in the area. There are 2 brothers, both are PA's. Each is running an Urgent Care Facility. Or they were a while back, I haven't heard much lately. I believe one lost his Medicare billing. But everyone thinks they are physicians and they are not.

I have no problem with PA's or NP's........ I just have a problem when one allows the patient/client to believe they are indeed a physician. In a couple instances personally, as an RN, I have seen an NP or PA that I felt actually knew more than the physician they were affiliated with.

Originally Posted by merrymini (Post 2325062)

Any cut that has been left untreated for so long can no longer be stitched. Any UC would have been able to do this simple care immediately because you would have been put to the front of the line.

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2324477)

Avoid the Villages Hospital ER at all costs, it doesn’t get any worse than that place. There is an urgent care facility on the north side of 466A, just west of Buena Vista. Good luck.

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2325070)

Should have just hit it with some crazy glue when the cut happened, easy peasy.