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by parpfish 514 days ago
Wait… you’re saying she went to urgent care and that urgent care did a cancer screening?

Urgent care is great, but they usually don’t have MDs. There are nurses that can give you stitches or a course of antibiotics but a cancer diagnosis is way out of their expertise

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Every provider / system is different. My wife is a physician who works urgent care shifts over the weekend to serve patients as described above. These are in addition to her M-Friday routine. She is part of the Kaiser system. This is systemwide for Kaiser, so my wife’s weekend engagement isn’t a one-off.
I don't know what happened after arriving. They likely did sometests and then found a hospital to admit her. Then the hospital did more tests.

The important point here is her fitness tool alerted her to something and that startee the chain that eventually found the real problem.