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Going to urgent care to get a routine doctor's note for a non-urgent situation wouldn't be covered by insurance, would it?
by geofft 5y ago
Going to urgent care to get a routine doctor's note for a non-urgent situation wouldn't be covered by insurance, would it?
- mullingitover 5y agoIf you've been suffering acute IBS for months and can't get a regular doctor's appointment in that time, why would that not be considered a case for urgent care? This whole store lacks enough detail to know exactly what's going on, however, so we're all going to project our biases on it. If you're anti-Amazon you're going to project your assumptions of unfair business practices. If you're skeptical of that position you're going to project your skepticism into the unknowns of the story. Really there aren't enough facts here to know if this is Amazon firing an underperforming employee who is lying about a health condition, or failing to accommodate an employee with a legitimate health problem.
- maxk42 5y agoWalk-in clinics are affordable and frequently faster than urgent care.
- mypalmike 5y agoI thought walk in clinics were exactly urgent care.
- Igelau 5y agoWhere are these quick, affordable, walk-in GI specialist clinics you speak of?
- klyrs 5y agoIBS is a diagnosis of last resort. You don't get that from a walk-in clinic, you get that from a months- or years-long quest to eliminate every possible cause, before your doctor throws up their hands and calls it IBS.
- mullingitover 5y agoCounterpoint: someone I know personally got that diagnosis from a single doctor's visit, so this isn't exactly a hard rule.
- klyrs 5y agoYeah, true. Different doctors have different standards, and there are significant regional differences in standards of care. I've had several walk-in clinics tell me that I need an established GP to deal with certain issues.