The purpose of a walk-in clinic is to provide patients with an alternative to emergency departments and to reduce the volume of patients with non-life-threatening medical concerns at emergency departments. As such, walk-in clinics function to help both patients and emergency room doctors.
 
Walk-in clinics accept walk-in appointments. As such, patients only need to arrive at the clinic, state their personal information and medical concern with the receptionist, and they will see a doctor within a short amount of time. That said, they do not treat patients who are experiencing life-threatening or life-altering medical emergencies. If a patient experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency arrives at a walk-in clinic, the clinic will call an ambulance and medical professionals will provide necessary first-aid until the ambulance arrives.
 
Instead, walk-in clinics provide care for individuals who are experiencing urgent medical concerns that are not considered life-threatening. In this way, walk-in clinics provide patients with a quicker alternative to the emergency room for non-life-threatening but urgent medical concerns and also allow emergency room doctors to focus more on those who need their attention the most.
 
Walk-in clinics can provide quicker services for such individuals because they see less severe medical cases. As a result, they can provide care for non-life-threatening medical concerns with more efficiency than emergency rooms, where doctors must attend to the most severe medical cases first.

As mentioned, walk-in clinics treat medical problems that are urgent but not considered life-threatening or life-altering. Some examples of a life-altering medical concern may include injuries or illnesses that may cause blindness, paralysis, cognitive disabilities, or require amputation.

With that said, some of the medical problems that medical providers at a walk-in clinic can treat include:

– Abdominal discomfort
– Burns, cuts, and rashes
– Respiratory infections and conditions like asthma
– Dislocations, fractures, sprains, and strains
– Diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting
– Bladder and urinary tract infections
– Eye and ear infections
– Back pain
– Animal and insect bites
– Allergies and allergic reactions
– And more!

When preparing for a doctor’s appointment at an urgent care clinic, you’ll want to make sure you know exactly what you are going to say to your doctor and the questions you need to ask. As such, you should prepare for your appointment by determining when your symptoms started, what worsens them and improves them, and what symptoms you’re experiencing.
 
You may also want to prepare a list of questions to ask about your medical concerns. These questions may involve queries about the doctor’s expertise and experience to assure you of their qualifications to care for you, specific questions about your condition, or about whether they will accept your insurance. There is also some information and documents you’ll want to bring to your appointment, such as a form of identification and proof of insurance.

People often go to a walk-in clinic if they are experiencing an urgent medical concern and cannot see their primary care doctor soon enough. In similar cases, people may often turn to the emergency department. However, many patients choose walk-in clinics over emergency rooms if their urgent medical concern is not life-threatening as a way of saving time.
 
Emergency room doctors must focus their attentions on patients with the most severe medical concerns before those with less severe concerns, causing the latter patients to experience extended wait times before getting the care they need. Since walk-in clinics do not see as severe medical concerns as emergency rooms, they are able to see patients with less severe concerns sooner.
 
At Quick Family Urgent Care, our walk-in clinic is open extended hours so you can find care for urgent medical concerns whenever they occur. Visit our clinic today for a walk-in appointment if you have a medical concern or call us for more information about our services! We are located at 4301 S Flamingo Rd #102, Davie, FL 33330. We serve patients from Cooper City FL, Plantation FL, Southwest Ranches FL, Weston FL, Pembroke Pines FL, Pines Island Ridge FL, Broadview Park FL, and Fort Lauderdale FL.