When you wake up one morning and your lips look like Mick Jagger mated with Angelina Jolie and your eye is swollen and itchy, you most definitely think "Urgent."
I headed out to Urgent Care after one such occasion and stopped first at the UPMC Urgent Care across the street.
I often imagine that the UPMC team comes out at noon to battle MedExpress "West Side Story"-style - dare to dream.
Anyway. I entered the UPMC waiting room to find full-blown construction, complete with chainsaws, etc., taking place amongst the patients. After waiting 30 minutes without being registered AND being handed back an ID and credit card that were not mine, I decided to leave. So, across the street I went to MedExpress, where I was greeted by a pleasantly silent and empty waiting room. The receptionist met me with a smile and I was in with the doctor in under 20 MINUTES. She was professional, knowledgeable and I walked out of there with a swollen smile, but a smile nonetheless. I'll never go anywhere else.