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This is a very good question, and a very complicated one. In many markets, retail clinics and urgent care centers are open 60 hours per week at best; nights and

by tkiley 17y ago

This is a very good question, and a very complicated one. In many markets, retail clinics and urgent care centers are open 60 hours per week at best; nights and weekends, treatment options are scarce. Additionally, many hospitals operate onsite "fast-track" clinics which are connected to the ED, so low-acuity conditions are essentially treated in something resembling a retail clinic. Our goal is to make the emergency medical treatment experience as efficient as possible. Parents don't want to be sitting in the waiting room half the night, potentially exposing their children to contagious diseases in the er. Professionals lose valuable time to ER visits that drag on forever. We're trying to recapture that lost time and give the patients more control of the treatment process.

bestes 17y ago
As yet another parent, this looks promising. My ER visits are usually in the 5-7 hour range. I also don't really care what the place is called: if I have an issue, I want to go to the closest place that can help me. If it happens to be the Walgreens three blocks away (it isn't), fine. Urgent Care, ER, trauma center or whatever. Until recently, I always thought these places would triage, but my experience has been that it is just 'take a number and wait' I've been in with a broken arm, a torn nose (that required stitches) and couldn't believed we were treated exactly like a headache. So, this looks great. Try the Silicon Valley next so we can try it!
wildwood 17y ago
In addition to making emergency treatment more efficient, you're also providing valuable decision support to people in some of the most stressful moments of their lives. Anyone who is scared enough or in enough pain to be considering an ER visit is about as far from a 'rational actor' as possible. Helping them make good decisions not only smooths out the system, it also gives people essential help when they need it most. Nice job. :)

by tkiley 17y ago

bestes 17y ago

As yet another parent, this looks promising. My ER visits are usually in the 5-7 hour range. I also don't really care what the place is called: if I have an issue, I want to go to the closest place that can help me. If it happens to be the Walgreens three blocks away (it isn't), fine. Urgent Care, ER, trauma center or whatever. Until recently, I always thought these places would triage, but my experience has been that it is just 'take a number and wait' I've been in with a broken arm, a torn nose (that required stitches) and couldn't believed we were treated exactly like a headache. So, this looks great. Try the Silicon Valley next so we can try it!

wildwood 17y ago

In addition to making emergency treatment more efficient, you're also providing valuable decision support to people in some of the most stressful moments of their lives. Anyone who is scared enough or in enough pain to be considering an ER visit is about as far from a 'rational actor' as possible. Helping them make good decisions not only smooths out the system, it also gives people essential help when they need it most. Nice job. :)