Does Your Medical Issue Need to Be Treated By a Specialist?

June 19, 2014

Whenever a medical issue arises, your first impulse may be to call an ambulance or rush to an emergency room for treatment. However, if the medical problem you are having treated is not particularly serious, you may be wasting both time and money: the typical emergency department visit costs, on average, $1,500, and can often take several hours. Even worse, mild injuries and problems will overwhelm hospitals with patients, creating longer wait times for ...

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Should You Go to the ER?

June 3, 2014

When you have a medical problem requiring immediate care, your first impulse is likely to find a primary care physician. But when your doctor's office is closed, where do you turn? This confusion is quite common, and can actually have a negative affect on a community as a whole by filling up emergency rooms with relatively innocuous medical complaints. According to a study by the Center for Disease Control, or CDC, as many as ...

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