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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
