Monday, February 18, 2013

How walk in clinics are the best for immediate medical help?

Nowadays, for one reason or the other, hospitals’ emergency rooms are full of people who are suffering from life-threatening health conditions and need emergency operations to be performed. If you are suffering from a non-serious illness or health condition, you cannot expect to be provided much attention in a medical facility catering to such kinds of emergencies, where the health practitioners are busy attending to serious medical conditions (such as heart attack, life-threatening accidental injuries, brain haemorrhage, and more).

Now, one may ask where to go for the treatment of non-life threatening emergencies? The answer is quite simple, urgent care clinic. Also referred to as by other names such as convenient care clinic, walk-in medical facility, nurse-in-a-box, retail based clinic, retail clinic, these urgent care settings offer fast and affordable treatment for non-serious injuries and health conditions which if not treated timely may lead to serious health conditions.

Most of us have our own regular physicians whom we tend to visit for every regular check-up. Many of them run their own clinics, which they went just to see is everything going smoothly. As we are well known to that fact that life is full of uncertainties, nobody knows what will happen to the next moment. Sometimes, unexpected incident may occur, which need urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, if your regular physician’s clinic is closed or hospital is too far, in such situations what would you do? A safe way is to move your head towards 24*7 hours opened walk-in medical facilities.

Walk in clinic in NYC’ are very popular among people suffering from illnesses or injuries that are not life threatening. Such disease/ condition include conditions like Asthma, Allergic Reaction, Abscess Drainage, Back Pain, Cough/Fever, Tick Bite, Ear-ache/Blockage, Foreign Body Removal, Headache/Migraine, Minor Sprain (Ankle/Knee/Foot), Minor Laceration, Nasal Congestion, Nausea/Vomiting/Diarrhoea, Pink Eye/Sties, Sinusitis, Sinus Infection, Sore Throat/Strep Throat, Urinary Tract Infection, Wart Treatment, and such others.

In addition to above mentioned treatments, convenient care facilities also offer preventive care including Annual check-ups, Diabetes Screening, DOT/Pre-Employment Physicals, High Blood Pressure Screening, Pre-Operative Evaluations/Clearance, STD Screening, Cholesterol Screening, and more.

These convenient care medical facilities, usually, work upon first-come, first –serve basis. Also, they are given the synonym immediate care clinics, because of the reason that the patients will get immediate attention of the doctor and instant medical care will be provided on their arrival. One of the most important things to mention here is that urgent care facilities are an affordable way to get immediate medical care. Most of these clinics also accept insurance plans of various companies as well.