Redefining emergency rooms
Where will you and your family go if you need urgent care medical
treatment? The majority of people will say that they will go to the emergency
room. Urgent care centers are perfectly suited for handling non-life-threatening
injuries and illnesses in a timely and affordable fashion. We are creatures of
our history. We all have childhood memories of bandaging a wound, hopping in
the car with mom or dad, and heading to the ER for treatment. However, times
have changed drastically. Spiraling costs of medical treatment and medications
have turned emergency room treatment into what is really a specialty center for
trauma and life threatening injuries.
How emergency rooms work
- While emergency rooms are staffed with dedicated physicians and nurses, many ERs do not have the resources necessary to care for all their patients at once.
- In order to provide the necessary service, ERs triage patients (assigns a priority of urgency to wounded or ill patients).
- This is why you can wait for hours if you come to the emergency room with a sprained ankle. Your sprained ankle may be extremely painful, but you can still end up waiting for hours because patients keep showing up with life threatening conditions.
Convenient urgent care clinic for
Germantown, MD
We all want the best for our families, especially when it comes to
healthcare and preventive medicine. Medical Access provides convenient walk-in
care as an alternative to long waits in the emergency room. Their friendly
staff will carefully and quickly assess your needs and provide the appropriate
services, from preventive medicine to x-ray and lab services. Their facilities
are fully staffed and equipped in order to meet the demands of their patients
and their healthcare needs.
Dr. Manbir Takhar is the Chief Medical Officer, and has been associated
with Medical Access since 1999. She is qualified to treat almost any type of
injury or illness that may present itself. Call Medical Access today, or simply
drop in, as no appointment is needed to receive timely, quality urgent care for
any non-life-threatening health issues.
