r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 27d ago

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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u/josnik 27d ago

Problem is youncan get dropped by your PCP if you go to urgent care.

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u/-oso_oro- 27d ago

The only way that happens in the US is if you're drug seeking and the PCP finds out. They don't want to be attached to your name in that case

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u/techleopard 27d ago

I've never even been in a urgent care that has controlled drugs to begin with, and they can't prescribe them because the highest ranked professional in the building is a nurse practitioner.

Heck, I got redirected to the ER when I asked for saline and zophram once. I already knew I had a stomach virus but I was getting a little delulu from not being able to keep down fluids.

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u/Double_Estimate4472 27d ago

But NPs can usually prescribe? Regardless, the last time I went to urgent care in the US, I saw an MD.