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New data says more patients are going to urgent care instead of their primary care doctor

"(WXYZ) — Do you go to urgent care or your primary care doctor? With access getting tighter and urgent care clinics popping up everywhere, more patients are choosing between fast care now or continuing care that may come with a wait. And doctors say it's a choice that can have real consequences."


""(We have) one primary care doc to 5,000 to 7,000 Detroiters in Southeast Michigan. That's not enough," Dr. Mann said.

For many patients, getting in to see their own doctor isn't easy, especially with the long waits and limited hours.

"I usually go on a wait list for about two weeks with my family physician," Crabtree said.



I don't have a "primary care" "doctor".  I go to urgent care.  Doctors are 90% fraudulent. That is the most over-rated profession on Earth. I never met a doctor in my life that wasn't blinded by the Dunning Kruger Effect. This country should be printing doctors instead of importing brown, non-christian foriegners with FAKE degrees from FAKE universities in SHITTY little countries.  I'm not going to a doctor unless they're a white man that doesn't golf.

Realistically, I could take a two-year crash course at like a community college and I could perform a heart transplant.  Nothing a doctor does is hard because they don't do much. They treat one species and 90% of the 'ailments' are psychosomatic because 90% of the human population are a bunch of whiny little bitches that think there's something wrong with them because they advertise disease on tv.  It says right in the Bible "Physician heal thyself". What Jesus was saying in the form of parable was: Walk it off, bitches. You'll live longer if you don't think you're sick.

My wife asked me who I wanted to pick as my primary doctor. I said without knowing "The Irish guy".  Whatever clinic it is....not that I care...there was bound to be one white guy and statistically, they're all at least part Irish....I think everyone is somehow.

my insurance will cover my primary care physician 100%. It will not cover 100% of an elective visit to urgent care unless I have cut off a limb therefore I have to schedule my appointments with the primary care doctor usually, there’s a three month wait time. NOBODY EVER PROMISED ME A ROSE GARDEN…