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| - This past week I had been suffering from a terrible bug that caused horrific, constant coughing attacks before advancing to a stuffed right ear. It was so bad that the last sentence would sound like, "This past week, cough, cough,cough...." This bug was now turning into a beast that lived in my chest. It was time to visit the doctor. Yesterday from 4:30 to 7:14 p.m., I spent a few hours of my life having Advanced Urgent Care Nightlight Pediatrics work on bringing me back to health. The best way to describe the visit is being in a movie that could be called "Bug Busters."
Scene 1: The Waiting Room
Advanced Urgent Care is located in the corner spot of a Home Goods/ Lowe's plaza closest to Eastern and St. Rose Parkway. The waiting room is not the biggest or cleanest space. When I walked in, the receptionist had me fill out two sheets of paperwork and asked for my health provider card and driver's license. She was not the friendliest person in the world. Then again neither was I on account of my coughing. With that said, Advanced Urgent Care accepts a large variety of health providers. The fact that they accept Aetna is what led led me here. Once I filled out the paperwork, I waited 14 minutes to enter the corridors of the clinic.
Scene 2: Introductory testing
Once inside the clinic, one of a few nurse practitioners that helped me today, asked me some questions about my medical history. She would take my temperature and write down some notes for Dr. Don Gregory.
Scene 3: Dr. Don Gregory's examination
The nurse practitioner led me into another room where Dr. Don Gregory examined my breathing and ears. He directed me to breath in and out deeply then checked my ears. He seemed like a nice older gentleman who would tell me that he is going to make me healthy. This would be the most that I saw of him.
I would wait for the next part of the process. There would be a lot of waiting. It is a common perception to think of walk in clinics as the McDonald's of health care. As I waited, it was obvious that I was not waiting on Ronald McDonald but a Doctor who was busy balancing his time between a few patients with their own pain. It was also obvious that regardless of the steps of the process that the visit would end with a prescription for antibiotics.
Scene 4: X-rays
After a few minutes of waiting, a nurse practitioner leads me to another room. She would take x-rays of my chest. For the record, Advanced Urgent Care features top x-ray equipment.
Scene 5: Ear flush
After more waiting, another nurse practitioner led me to bay three (the rooms are called bays) to flush out my ears. I'd spend several minutes lying on a bed leaning on each side of my ear. With the fluid and stuffed ear, I could just make out the roaring traffic on Eastern and the basketball game on the radio. Just like all the nurse practitioners here, the woman who flushed out my ears was professional but not too friendly.
Scene 6: The prescription
As expected, the visit ended with a prescription. A nurse practitioner gave me the prescription and a note excusing me from work. Dr. Don Gregory closed the visit by emphasizing that I drink lots of fluids. In hindsight it would have been nice if he would have told me what I have wrong with me. Over and above it all, I am optimistic that Dr. Don Gregory's prescription is the bug buster that brings me back to health, Knock on wood.
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