>Is this something that all US readers would know? They should. "Urgent Care" "Immediate Care" etc are oftenin office parks next to lawyers/realtors/dentists.

>Is this something that all US readers would know? They should. "Urgent Care" "Immediate Care" etc are oftenin office parks next to lawyers/realtors/dentists. They are where you go when you do not have a primary care provider, or can't be seen by your primary care provider, and are sick. You take your kids to them for physicals for their school sport or when you have a bad cough and don't want to/can't wait a week for your doctor to squeeze you in. You walk in, sit in a waiting room with 10-20 sick strangers and wait sometimes for hours to be seen, then meet one of umpteen doctors working that you've probably never seen before and will never see again that looks at you for maybe a minute and writes a prescription or tells you to go to your doctor. They are 100% for acute, non-life threatening illnesses and injury.