Urgent care clinics (not to be confused with the emergency room) provide services, often after hours, for non-life-threatening conditions. For example, an urgent care is very likely to perform stitches on injuries that do not pose significant risk to one’s life and thus do not need the immediate, critical care of an emergency room. 20,000 […]
Category / Emergency room care
Knowing where to go when a medical emergency strikes is important. Should you call 911 or the on call doctor? Is medical assistance imperative and immediate? Does that mean urgent care or emergency room? All of these questions really should be answered before the problem arises. In a nutshell, anything that is life threatening or […]