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Urgent care won't take anything outside of a minor scrape or cut. Daughter woke up with a 107 fever and was denied at a urgent care and forced to an ER. ER

• jfengel 5y ago
  Urgent care did a great job when I had kidney stones. They took blood work and an x-ray, made a diagnosis, gave me a shot that took care of the problem, and all of it in an hour. A friend had a case of a bad virus and the urgent care did a great job with her too. I'm sure it varies from place to place and need to need, and few of us have the training to tell which. But at least some urgent care centers can do really good work for a lot more than cuts. In your case the urgent care center did the right thing. A fever of 107 could be a lot of incredibly dangerous things, some of which require surgery, and ASAP. I'm glad your daughter required nothing more, but it was absolutely a situation where the urgent care center was not sufficient. You and I can't be expected to know that, and it would be great if we lived with a system that didn't draw such sharp lines in order to reduce cost. The urgent and emergency places should be part of the same system and co-located as much as possible. But that requires a complete rebuild of our system from the ground up.