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How Urgent Care Centers Handle After-Hours Emergencies
The value of urgent care is that it’s available all week and often in hours that extend before or after typical work hours. Urgent care is available on weekends, unlike your general practitioner’s office. What happens when you have an after-hours emergency and need...
The Importance of Follow-Up Care After an Urgent Care Visit
Urgent care centers are a vital part of the American healthcare system. If you don’t have a doctor or your normal doctor is busy and cannot see you for weeks or months, urgent care centers fill the gap. They’re also handy when you need to see a doctor outside of...
Telemedicine Benefits: How Premium Urgent Care Meets Modern Needs
The National Institutes of Health defines telemedicine as “the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care.” It’s not as new a practice as you might believe. The earliest telemedicine visits go back to the 1870s...
Cold vs. COVID-19 vs. Flu: Differences and When to Seek Help
Most people associate the flu season as an October to March event. The flu is around all year, and so far, A (H1N1) pdm09, A (H3N2), and B flu viruses are all circulating. Activity is low, but it is trending upward at a rate of 0.9%. COVID-19 rates are also...
Managing Minor Injuries at Home: Tips From Premium Urgent Care
Knowing when to go to urgent care and when to manage injuries at home can be challenging. Every year, urgent care centers and hospitals treat millions of patients. ERs alone saw 139.8 million patients in 2021, and 41.8% of those visits took less than 15 minutes. It’s...
Physical Exams: Facts Versus Fiction With Fresno’s Top Doctor
Some patients become confused over the necessity of a yearly physical exam. A physical exam is a comprehensive health test where a primary care physician looks at your overall health through a series of tests and conversations. Most physical exams start with...
STD Testing for Fresno Residents: What to Do & Where to Go
Between 2018 and now, some sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), decreased while others increased. We’re using the term STI regarding statistics as that’s how the CDC reports these. You may be more familiar with the older term ‘sexually transmitted disease” or STD....
Heat Exhaustion: Preventing & Treating Overheating in California’s Central Valley
California’s Central Valley shapes much of the state’s interior region. It’s a 450-mile stretch of land that at its widest point measures 60 miles. It’s also one of the hottest regions in California, especially in the southern San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin. ...
Summer Vacation Planning: Your First Aid Packing List From Fresno’s Top Doctor
Per a 2017 report, Californians forfeited 97 million paid days off. Almost half of people in the U.S. do not use all of their time off, and there are five reasons why this is so common. Don’t need all of the time off they get. Don’t want to fall behind at work. Don’t...
Treating Everyday Back Injuries with Premium Sports Orthopedics
About 65 million Americans have experienced back pain in the past year. It leads to 83 million days of time off from work each year. Chronic back pain affects about 16 million adults. It’s the sixth most expensive condition to treat. Back pain is one of the hardest...