From: chamilton5280@invalid.com   
      
   On 2025-10-26, Jim Joyce  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:09:02 -0400, Ed P  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 10/25/2025 3:05 PM, Jim Joyce wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>> If problem is not severe best places to go are hospital satellite ER's   
   >>>> where wait is short but you have to pay.   
   >>>   
   >>> Around here, those places are called Urgent Care Clinics, sort of a   
   >>> middle ground between the doctor's office and the ER. As above, if I go   
   >>> to a UCC I don't pay anything, but plenty of other folks aren't as   
   >>> fortunate. It seems like the country could do better in that regard but   
   >>> we don't have wide agreement on that.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>Sort of but, they are different places.   
   >   
   > Yes, of course, all three are different places. I thought that was   
   > clear.   
   >   
   >>Down the road about 5 miles is an Urgent Care, but another mile down is   
   >>an ER associated with a hospital another 10 miles away.   
   >>   
   >>Urgent care is for non-life threatening illness and injury VS the better   
   >>equipped ER for life threatening and serious injury.   
   >   
   > It's the same here, as well as other places that I've lived.   
      
   I've never seen an ER that wasn't attached to a hospital.   
      
   Google tells me there are a couple freestanding ERs about 20 miles   
   away from my house.  There are two hospitals much closer; the   
   one I prefer is 5 miles from my house.  The Urgent Care is about   
   7 miles away.   
      
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