[tptacek]

The trick in a lot of places is to start routine care at your providers urgent care clinics, which are often staffed with NPs instead of physicians; the NPs at those clinics are plugged directly into your family medicine provider. It takes a couple weeks to schedule appointments with doctors in our practice (especially our specific doctors), but I can be in and out of the clinic in under 30 minutes on no notice. It's not a bad system (aside from billing, which is a catastrophe).

[yencabulator]

> [...] routine care at [...] urgent care [...]

I think that says it all. That's a broken system you're just gaming & claiming nothing's wrong.

[tptacek]

I'm assuming you believe "urgent care" means "the emergency room". It does not.

[yencabulator]

I am aware of the difference between "urgent" and "emergency". But when "routine" implies "urgent", something has gone wrong.