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Originally Posted by droopydrew19
I am employed at an urgent care facility. They still cost the system $700+ per visit. While the walk in across the street is 1/3 of that.
People don't seem to understand what urgent care is. That is part of the problem. That is why they need to be assessed by someone to show them where to go.
There are tons of health care dollars wasted daily by patients in the health care system. And tons of staffing issues that lead to Nurses making mandatory double time pay etc. They system needs an overhaul. It is sick.
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It's the way the system is setup in general though; the emergency room 'controls' everything (for lack of a better term). A couple of years ago it was about 7:30-8pm and my doctor wanted me to have blood work done immediately. I wasn't going to die, and if you saw me sitting in the ER that night you would've thought to yourself "that guy doesn't look sick at all, he's fine!"
Problem is that in order to get done what had to be done, I had no alternative but to go to an ER. We're not talking about anything crazy here either...just blood work at that poInt. This is the way it goes for almost all diagnostic testing. I was also directed to ER for a CT scan by a doctor on another occasion.
We (average guys who don't work in medicine, but also don't run to the doctor every time they get the sniffles), all realise that if you are going to need anything done you can wither sit at a walk-in and get a requisition to go to a lab and then go there for what it is you need. Then you head back to the clinic and see what the results are/were. Or you go to the ER and its all done at once.
Frankly, if doctors offices were equipped to do some of this stuff it wouldn't be as much of a concern.