Personal Experience: Welcome To Urgent Care

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So I am sick. Welcome to the club, right? Well, last night I went in to Urgent Care because I felt awful. I got there around 6:30pm. They told me it would be about an hour or so before I would be seen.

Around 7:15 or so (they close at 8 ) a man came in with his little boy lying on his shoulder, the little boy was clearly so sick. (He was probably 2-3 yrs old or so). The guy working at the clinic told the man that they were at full capacity and were no longer taking anymore patients for the evening. He suggested going to a different Urgent Care that was about 20 minutes away. The problem with that option was that it was snowing really bad out and the roads were horrible! It would probably take him much longer than 20 minutes to get there

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