I recently went to Urgent Care as I had caught the flu. I went there as I understand that the FLU is somewhat an urgent matter especially with getting the Tamiflu in order to reduce the pain (body aches, fever, chills) as there is only a 48 hour window period for it to kick in. Unfortunately my dr's office could not get me in until 3 and I wanted to seek help immediately. I arrived at Urgent care at noon and didn't get in for over 2 hours... and there were only 4 other people before me. I was stuck sitting in an unfcomfortable chair with a cough, fever, aches, and chills for two hours to only be set into my room and wait to be seen by a nurse. Then another 1/2 passed until I could finally see a dr. Said and done it was 3:30 by the time I walked out of there... I should have just gone to my dr's. They really do not treat you as though your case is "URGENT".
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