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By Rebecca Cuthbert

Illnesses and injuries run the gamut from inconvenient to life-threatening.

The problem is we can’t always tell the difference. If you’re feeling crummy on a Saturday afternoon, should you wait until Monday to make an appointment with your general physician? Or do your symptoms require immediate treatment? When a game of backyard football results in a twisted ankle, should you rush to the ER or wait to see how it looks the next day?

The good news is that patients now have more “in-between” options than ever before when it comes to medical treatment. In addition to hospital emergency rooms and general practitioners’ offices, urgent care facilities fill the gap between something that can wait and something that probably isn’t life-threatening. Some, like UB|MD Orthopaedics & Sports

Medicine, with three locations in the Buffalo area, even specialize.

The American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine (AAUCM) offers a helpful definition of urgent care medicine for those who may be unfamiliar: “Urgent Care Medicine (UCM) is the provision of immediate medical service offering outpatient care for the treatment of acute and chronic illness and injury,” states its website. “It requires a broad and comprehensive fund of knowledge to provide such care. Excellence in care for patients with complex and or unusual conditions is founded on the close communication and collaboration between the urgent care medicine physician, the specialists and the primary physicians.” In other words, you can get medical care quickly, but without clogging up the emergency room with less than dire conditions.

Primary care The offices of primary care doctors or general practitioners should always be where people turn for annual check-ups and physicals. Some insurance plans still require patients to obtain referrals for specialists from their primaries. Primary care doctors can also be seen for illnesses that aren’t emergencies, managed chronic conditions, and prescription refills.

Appointments are required, which means patients can’t always be seen the same day they call. If you even suspect that your or your child’s condition necessitates a faster response, choose another option.

Emergency rooms Patients worried that life or limb is at stake should head to the nearest hospital emergency room, because this is why “better safe than sorry” was invented. According to the American Heart Association and others, the emergency room is the right call if you have: * Shortness of breath, chest pain, or pain that radiates from the chest into the arm or jaw * Sweatiness, dizziness, or mental confusion * Loss of speech, sight, movement, or balance * Heart palpitations www.buffalospree.com

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