Where the heck do you live?
I call my doctor, I get in that day if it's something new, at worst the next day. If it's a chest cold, he calls in the script, then we do a mandatory tele-visit, during which we mostly talk about basketball.
Has anyone used a walk-in clinic lately
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I call my doctor, I get in that day if it's something new, at worst the next day. If it's a chest cold, he calls in the script, then we do a mandatory tele-visit, during which we mostly talk about basketball.
I called the other day to get an appointment with the dermatologist that I normally go to and it was gonna be Feb of 25 before I could get in.
That's where all the money is. 😅 😅
People's Republic of Bloomington.
I suspect in Carmel, they send limos to take you to the doctor
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I could use someone to drive my ass around for once in my adult life.People's Republic of Bloomington.
I suspect in Carmel, they send limos to take you to the doctor
We even have walk-in radiology with the referral of course.
The argument for Medicare for all contends that if Americans could afford a healthy medical care program they would be healthier. This could mean not waiting until a crises occurs occurs requiring a visit for emergency care.
In other words, putting off care for routine medical problems can result in much more severe and expensive medical care. Also backlogs at both walk in care and hospital emergency care facilities.
I think what you meant to say was….it sucks when people use the emergency room in an unintended manner
I dont think that will fix the problem Marvin referenced…but I could be not understanding correctly
When they have insurance, they don't user the ER as a PCP. The notion of Medicare for all would allow for people to visit doctors proactively or on schedule vs. waiting until there is an emergency, and in a lot of instances, they'd even have free transportation.
I said what I meant to say. You don't like the idea of people getting free healthcare. It might get in your way.
A free baseline of insurance will allow people to be proactive with their healthcare, which makes healthcare cheaper, which makes for fewer people needing to use the ER as their PCP.
Wrong…Marvin already gave an example. Carmel is not representative of the rest of Indiana
Congrats.
I doubt people enjoy waiting until they're gravely ill to see a doctor, and I doubt they enjoy using the ER.
Canada has issues:
One of the other main causes for long wait times is that Canada underinvests in equipment and staff. Canada has 35% fewer acute care beds and per capita than the United States.
If we’re talking about MRIs per capita, Canada is doing worse than Turkey, Chile or even Latvia. In Canada, MRIs have waits that average over nine weeks.
Even ultrasound, which is a routine procedure, have almost four-week waiting lists in Canada.
According to the OECD, Canada ranks 29th out of 33 high-income countries in terms of doctors per 1,000 population. In terms of specialist doctors per capita, Canada has only half as many as the United States.
Another nuance of Canada’s healthcare system is that it’s not a single organism: it is broken up into pieces, with a different health plan, coverages and access to resources for every province and territory.
There is no federal healthcare system in place, and so the same treatment, consultation, surgery or test may take longer, depending on the province
Their bolding, not mine. If you read the rest of that article, most hospitals still use paper waitlists which leads to other problems.
Why Are Hospital Wait Times in Canada So Long? | Qminder
Despite the high overall quality of healthcare, Canada ranks below average for hospital wait times. Why is this a problem and how can we solve it?
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Clearly Bloomington isn't either, as I wasn't the only one to reply incredulously to his sample.
Girlfriend went to Community Northeast (whatever they're calling the Castleton one now) in the fall. It was 90 minutes to get called back without a life threatening instance.
It's cute you think I exist in just one zip code.
IU Health publishes their current wait times for ERs and walk-ins. I just completed compiling at 2:35:
ERs
Bloomington ER :31
Bedford ER 1:25
Morgan ER :21
Paoli ER unavailable
Avon :40
Methodist :32
Carmel :51
Fishers :15
Franfort :19
Tipton unavailable
Lafayette :16
Muncie unavailable
White :19
Jay :15
Walk in
Avon 0-15
Bloomington 2:21
Broad Ripple 1:22
Brownsburg 1:22
Downtown Indy 0-15
Greenwood 50-65
Lafayette 4:29
Muncie 47-62
Noblesville 2:24
West Lafayette 2:35
Fort Wayne 21-36
Fort Wayne No 27-42
So multiple walk-ins have over 2 hour waits. That could explain why some go to ER?
If I think to look a couple other times and dates I will, I'm curious what sort of averages we see. 4 hours and 29 minutes to get in to the Lafayette walk-in isn't good.
ERs
Bloomington ER :31
Bedford ER 1:25
Morgan ER :21
Paoli ER unavailable
Avon :40
Methodist :32
Carmel :51
Fishers :15
Franfort :19
Tipton unavailable
Lafayette :16
Muncie unavailable
White :19
Jay :15
Walk in
Avon 0-15
Bloomington 2:21
Broad Ripple 1:22
Brownsburg 1:22
Downtown Indy 0-15
Greenwood 50-65
Lafayette 4:29
Muncie 47-62
Noblesville 2:24
West Lafayette 2:35
Fort Wayne 21-36
Fort Wayne No 27-42
So multiple walk-ins have over 2 hour waits. That could explain why some go to ER?
If I think to look a couple other times and dates I will, I'm curious what sort of averages we see. 4 hours and 29 minutes to get in to the Lafayette walk-in isn't good.
Urgent care here takes forever but at least you wait at home. You sign up online and get a text when to come in. With two kids we are there often
It depends. The urgent care here runs out of spots, one can get a time early in the day. When I went on at 6AM yesterday, there were still 10 spots left. I grabbed 1:40. I left home but got a text they were an hour late. It was a 20 minute drive home, so I sat in the car posting. The new time came, I got a text they were a half hour late from the revised time. More waiting. Then I got the, you can come in text, and it was still 45 minutes.
But I had a spot. As I noted, people came in during the time I was inside waiting trying to be walk-ins, which they allow. They were sent away. No place in Bloomington takes pure walk-in. Your kid falls at school and needs stitches at 3:30, you are way too late to snag a time. The ER is it. Or schedule for the next day.
I'm missing the hook.
My brother lived in Munster for a 1000 years before moving to Schererville, so I have a lot to hate about northern Indiana. But I'm not sure about your context.
yes that's actually true here too. you just have to get online and go from urgent care to urgent care looking for one with a slot for that day and drive
You didn't list any cities north of Ft. Wayne. Those of us who grew up along the I-90 corridor think of Ft. Wayne as a southern city.
Are there IU health ER's and Walk-ins up there? They aren't listed.
Angola was a real eye-opener. A buddy from high school was a news director there, I never dreamed the ancestral Arkansas blood in me felt right at home that far north, far more than in Columbus or Bloomington.
No clue. Thought you were just randomly looking at cities, and like most Indiana residents, didn't know or think of any in the north. We northerners have a chip on our shoulders, don't ya' know?
In my puppy days up through my college student days, urgent care seemed to be more plentiful. I was hurt often either trying to play a sport. or had various crazy bronchitis or pneumonia things. I don't recall not finding somewhere to get in. A softball injury at 2AM required an ER trip, but other than that, Prompt Care or other places were around.
5 month wait here to see a neurologist, and that's on an "emergency" basis. I tripped over a root, fell and hit my head on rock. 3 stitches at the local clinic. They got me in quickly, I suspect because they didn't want me in their waiting room.
Doc wants me to see a neurologist, get an MRI, and see if the fall caused a brain bleed.
Some of my college friends were from Griffith, so south of you. If have more of a chip than that, wow.
5 month to get in for an emergency possible brain bleed? Is this a test, if you make it 5 months, it wasn't an emergency. That is crazy.
I was in one today with my daughter. Covid and Flu tests. We were in and out in an hour with no appointment. We waited long enough to walk from the check in counter to sit down only to immediately stand back up to go see the doctor.
People's Republic of Bloomington.
I suspect in Carmel, they send limos to take you to the doctor
The fall/concussion was in fall of 2022, so my guess it can wait.
Don't wait when it concerns your melon.
The clinic that did the stitches didn't express any alarm.
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So is Fishers just east of Carmel. There are multiple Med Check facilities available including three within 10 minutes from my home including IU health, St. Vincent and Community. I used Community two weeks ago and was in and out with a prescription in less than 30 minutes as a walk-in patient. Why the Mmhmmm?
i like to know what posters live or work in carmel. helps me to adjust my posting and stereotypes
Over two years ago in the late spring or early summer I got some kind of chest infection I just couldn't shake. Finally gave up and went to IUH Urgent Care. Got in within a half hour. They checked me for Covid and flu (negative) and prescribed a round of anti-biotics. But the kicker was my blood pressure was sky high. They got kind of freaked -- said I needed to go see my PCP immediately. I told them I didn't have one. They told me to get one, and soon.
So dreading it, I logged into the IUH website and started following the bouncing ball. I eventually got a slot a week out to see an NP on Landmark. She confirmed my high blood pressure and prescribed some meds. Then they made a followup appointment two weeks out. Then they set me up with an actual PC physician about a month out. I've been seeing her ever since. This is her first actual job and looks like she's about 12 years old, but we had a good first extensive "get acquainted" visit and she and I came to an understanding about what I expected from her and what she could expect from me.
About three months ago I started experiencing difficulty breathing. I again just assumed a chest infection, but by the end of the work week it got to the point where I was really having a hard time, much worse than I'd ever experienced. Over the weekend I came this -->| |<-- close to going to the emergency room; I was getting to the point I couldn't catch my breath even at rest. Monday morning I showed up at my doctor's office unannounced, but they couldn't get me in until the following day. I was able to get through the day, and got in at the appointed time on Tuesday. Even then, I was seen by a PA, not my doctor, but no matter -- she nailed it with a viral pneumonia diagnosis and hooked me up with some steroids and anti-virals and I was back to my old self within hours.
So there you go. No horror stories, and everything I've had to deal with health wise in the last nearly three years have been handled efficiently and professionally. I still have to push back when they want to go overboard with all the tests and diagnostic procedures, but the PCP and the urologist I see both seem to be okay with me being the one to decide what's really necessary vs. whatever they can get Humana to pay for. JMO. YMMV.
My guess is a college town is much busier than another of the same size. College students don’t have a physician in the same city, so they all go to Urgent Care all the time. I was constantly taking girls there.
