Journal of Urgent Care Medicine

Medication Issues in Urgent Care

Urgent message: Polypharmacy—taking multiple medications to treat several chronic medical problems—puts patients at increased risk of developing additional health issues when they are prescribed even more medications for acute conditions in an urgent care center. JASMEET SINGH BHOGAL, MD It is not uncommon for patients, especially elderly patients, presenting to an urgent care center to have multiple medical problems. This makes it more likely that they are taking multiple medications as well. In fact, according …

Assessing for Life-threatening Chest Pain in the Urgent Care Center

Urgent message: Data show that urgent care centers are becoming a more common destination for patients experiencing chest pain. Immediate recognition of emergent vs. urgent causes may be the make-or-break moment for the patient’s outcome. Jasmeet Singh Bhogal, MD Introduction Evaluation of chest pain always presents as a diagnostic challenge, be it in the outpatient family medicine setting or the hospital emergency department. In fact, urgent care centers occupy a unique position in the equation; …