Urgent care that isn’t

I needed some relatively minor medical care, and wanted to get it done today rather than wait for an appointment to see a doctor.  It wasn’t serious enough to require a trip to the emergency room, so I drove to an urgent care clinic in Cupertino.  It’s not that close to where I live, but I’ve been treated there before and been happy with it.  However, when I got there, I discovered that it isn’t there any more.

On the way home, I remembered having seen a sign for an urgent care clinic at 500 Calaveras Blvd. in  Milpitas, so I went there.  The sign was still in front of the building.  I parked behind the building, where another sign said the clinic was in suite 100.  There was also an “urgent care” sign right outside suite 100.  I entered and went to the desk to sign in.  The receptionist asked if I had an appointment, which of course I didn’t.  She seemed surprised, and said that occasionally people drop in thinking that is an urgent care clinic, but it isn’t.  It’s a doctor’s office for cardiology and internal medicine.

Geez, what do you suppose might cause people to drop in without appointments expecting urgent care?  Maybe all the signs saying that it is an urgent care clinic?

She said that she thought there was an urgent care clinic somewhere on Main St., but when I got home and did a Google search I didn’t turn up anything.  It appears that the clinic in Cupertino still exists but has moved a few miles from its old location.

And they wonder why so many people go to the emergency room for non-emergency care.

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