urgent care
medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems: access to urgent care.
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How to use urgent care in a sentence
Doctors at the urgent care site he visited sent him home with medications and asked him to return if his condition worsened.
Wife hospitalized for covid gets home to find husband dead from the same virus: ‘It was like walking into a horror movie’ | Andrea Salcedo | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostIn early January, Valles went to a local urgent care after his condition deteriorated.
In Texas-Mexico Border Towns, COVID-19 Has Had an Unconscionably High Death Toll | René Kladzyk, Phil Galewitz and Elizabeth Lucas | El Paso Matters and KHN | June 22, 2021 | TimeAfter my return flight to Cleveland, I kept my promise to my doctor and visited an urgent care.
I Visited My Grandkids After 16 Months and Realized How Much the Pandemic Had Changed Me | Connie Schultz | May 18, 2021 | TimeThe totals don’t include residents who were poisoned but did not seek care or those who were treated at hospitals and urgent care clinics that do not voluntarily report data to the state.
Texas Enabled the Worst Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Catastrophe in Recent U.S. History | by Perla Trevizo, Ren Larson, Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Mike Hixenbaugh and Suzy Khimm, NBC News | April 29, 2021 | ProPublicaAt least 11 deaths have been confirmed and more than 1,400 people sought care at emergency rooms and urgent care clinics for carbon monoxide poisoning during the weeklong Texas outage, just 400 shy of the total for 2020.
Texas Enabled the Worst Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Catastrophe in Recent U.S. History | by Perla Trevizo, Ren Larson, Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune; Mike Hixenbaugh and Suzy Khimm, NBC News | April 29, 2021 | ProPublica
Ryan McGarry M.D., director of the documentary Code Black, addresses the dismal state of urgent care.
‘Code Black’: An M.D. on How to Fix Our Emergency Room Crisis | Ryan McGarry | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUrgent-care clinics are springing up in retail stores across the country.
Retail Clinics Are More Common Than Ever, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Use Them | Russell Saunders | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOver the past several years, the popularity of urgent-care (or “retail”) clinics has risen dramatically.
Retail Clinics Are More Common Than Ever, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Use Them | Russell Saunders | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt soon became evident that our mineral resources should receive equal though less urgent care.
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