While urgent care can give you medical attention without an appointment, it isn't the same as an ER where you may also go for immediate care. "Big picture—urgent care is not the setting for any ...

a family medicine physician and clinical assistant professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine. You have two options if you need after-hours medical attention: urgent care clinics or the ER.

After the Tories consolidated hospital operations in Winnipeg, including closing beds, reducing staff and converting three ERs to urgent care centres, ER and urgent care wait times climbed above ...