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| - To be fair, you cannot expect much from most any "urgent care" unit, other than to be seen immediately without an appointment. UCs are basically triage units that, if you have any medical concern of any significance, will simply say "go to the ER." And I don't really need to cough-up a chunky co-pay just to have that said to me. Still, given my particular situation, I decided to take a shot at this place first.
Other than the usual taking of temperature, blood pressure, weight, etc., no effort was made to collect any other data -- no blood tests, urine, imaging, swabbing or anything like that.
Without throwing my private medical drama out there, let me say that I was offered a prescription product that is stronger than the over-the-counter products for the condition I was reporting. Then I was told if that didn't resolve my situation to .... go to the ER.
Oh, glad you mentioned that, dude! I would never had thought of THAT!
Since I felt dehydration might be involved, I asked if we could check for that and do an IV drip if needed. That's pretty much the only reason I even bothered with the UC route in the first place.
Answer: Nope. "Our company doesn't allow us to administer IVs." Hmmmph. So this company is seriously limiting the actual medical services it provides ... to minimize its exposure to any claim of malpractice.
And for my co-pay I didn't even get the expertise of an MD ... or a DO. The on-duty was a PA (physician's assistant). Well, he had a nice personality, though.
I chalk up my experience here as pretty mediocre, and certainly with nothing accomplished for my time or money. But as I said at first, that's pretty much all you can expect out of an Urgent Care unit anyway.
It's Vegas, luckily I have no urge to gamble in general, but I gambled my UC co-pay here, and I lost.
I ended up self-reporting at the ER the next morning, not even bothering to fill the UC prescription.
RECOMMENDATION: Think twice ... or even thrice ... before using a Urgent Care unit. For cold or flu prescriptions ... or for antibiotics for a minor infection ... those sorts of things ... they're OK. Otherwise, you're just going to end up in a doctor's office or the ER anyway. So save yourself the time and money.
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