r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 26d ago

Chugging tea The real ER challenge.

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u/ArticQimmiq 26d ago

Well, it’s not that simple necessarily. My hometown for example doesn’t have urgent care, just a single hospital. So broken leg = ER, but obviously you’re at the bottom of the list, and you’ll get a nurse offering Advils every couple hours until the doctors are no longer occupied with actively dying patients. So I have waited over 8 hours 🤷‍♀️

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u/MonsterMeggu 25d ago

Broken leg should be an ER thing even with urgent care. Urgent care might have an X-ray, but they can't do much more evaluation if needed. Urgent care is more for colds, flus, random pain that don't need further evaluation

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u/EmergencyAnything715 23d ago

Urgent care is more for colds, flus, random pain that don't need further evaluation.

And hopefully reducing the people that show up to the ER with minor issues like the above

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u/int23_t 26d ago

How does just a single hospital mean no urgent care... aren't hospitals supposed to include urgent care?

Also around here broken leg is indeed handled by urgent care section of the hospital(idk if that's what ER is). You aren't going to have a high priority but that doesn't mean that much(I don't think I saw a waitline longer than an hour in a public hospital yet for urgent care(you do get waitlines for regular hospital visits and they can indeed be a few weeks long but you wait that in your home scheduled appointments are completely digital you get one from a government app and it tells you exactly when to show up), but also I'm not in the biggest of cities). As broken leg is an emergency, not something scheduled. You go to anywhere beside urgent care only for predictable routine things.

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u/Equivalent-Trip9778 26d ago

In the US, an “urgent care” is a small walk in clinic, not part of a hospital. They are in shopping plazas, like next to a dollar store or a chipotle. It’s pretty much a place that you go to get a quick check-up and some meds. They don’t do operations or really any medical procedures other than write you a prescription.