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Kajiimagi · 2025-11-11T17:39:56-0500

Kithani said:
Urgent Care

But understand for 50% of problems that they should be able to manage in theory, they will be useless

Also see my comment about DPC/Concierge

And where do you live that DPC/Concierge is available. Here in middle of nowhere NV you have a PCP that I'm now being told will be out until mid-February, I went to her (NP at that) because my previous PCP (also a NP) kept changing appointments before she up and quit and moved to Alaska. Urgent care is where we all have to go, but last time I went I sat in the waiting room for 3 hours and when I still had not been seen decided I'll just go home and die as sitting there that long destroys my back. I'm really sorry you have to slam patients to get your pay up. From the other side it's a bunch of shit on a shit sandwich.

Kithani · 2025-11-11T17:46:08-0500

Kajiimagi said:
And where do you live that DPC/Concierge is available. Here in middle of nowhere NV you have a PCP that I'm now being told will be out until mid-February, I went to her (NP at that) because my previous PCP (also a NP) kept changing appointments before she up and quit and moved to Alaska. Urgent care is where we all have to go, but last time I went I sat in the waiting room for 3 hours and when I still had not been seen decided I'll just go home and die as sitting there that long destroys my back. I'm really sorry you have to slam patients to get your pay up. From the other side it's a bunch of shit on a shit sandwich.

I agree with you, I think maybe on the forums my responses are coming off differently than intended. The system is fucked. I was just pointing out that in my experience Urgent Cares suck and providing a bit of insight into why PCPs (and specialists) are super booked out. I don't think there's a good solution to healthcare in rural America tbh you basically have to hope there is a saint of a human being that grows up there and goes to med school then returns

Kajiimagi · 2025-11-11T17:54:54-0500

Kithani said:
I agree with you, I think maybe on the forums my responses are coming off differently than intended. The system is fucked. I was just pointing out that in my experience Urgent Cares suck and providing a bit of insight into why PCPs (and specialists) are super booked out. I don't think there's a good solution to healthcare in rural America tbh you basically have to hope there is a saint of a human being that grows up there and goes to med school then returns

All good, you didn't come off bad. I also have an appointment with my pain management doc (aka drug dealer) today at 4:30. My wife cannot accept that there is not a cure for neuropathy (that I have not already tried at least twice) and she wants to ask questions again. I told her to make a list because we are only allowed 10 minutes with the doc (who is also only a PA).

Noodleface · 2025-11-11T18:47:21-0500

Cad said:
Ear infection is basically what Urgent Care places are made for even though they are ripoffs. If you need to be seen immediately but it's not life-threatening or going to need surgery/etc then urgent care works great, they can do stitches, prescribe meds, etc. Anything more serious and they just kick you to the ER.

I'm not a fan of urgent care places but it sounds like this is one of the scenarios where they make sense.

Mostly agree. Unfortunately first urgent care basically said yeah you have an ear infection take this. Second place didn't even look in my ear and gave me a very aggressive antibiotic.

When I saw my PCP he was dumbfounded because when he looked my canal was so full of discharge he said no medicine could even make it in. He said if the urgent care doc had even looked she would've sent me somewhere else for a flush.

My pcp flushed out my ears and the antibiotics fixed it in like a day.

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