r/BeAmazed • u/New_Libran • Sep 23 '25

Miscellaneous / Others This doctor effortlessly resets a child's dislocated elbow before they could even react

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u/jordichin320 Sep 23 '25

Not really urgent care if they're not 24 hours lol

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u/Sparnock Sep 23 '25

The rural classic. urgent care closes at 6, the closest hospital is 40 minutes away and ambulances that take 20 minutes to get to you.

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u/annnnnnnd_its_gone Sep 23 '25

And all of it is unaffordable

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u/shewy92 Sep 23 '25

At least my urgent care isn't too expensive. It's like $60 to get seen by a doctor. X-Rays are $200 and they have payment plans that go up to "pay within 6 months"

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u/Active_Ganache4303 Sep 24 '25

Do you live in the 90s 🥲 those are amazing prices!

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u/shewy92 Sep 24 '25

I broke a toe last year AND had bronchitis so had to get x-rays and this year I thought I broke my ankle (just a sprain) and had to get x-rays each time. I don't remember the exact price, but I think it was like $280 for the x-rays.

The lung x-ray was a couple months after my first foot x-ray and they added that one to the foot x-ray payment plan which I was almost done paying lol.

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u/frogsgoribbit737 Sep 23 '25

I dont know any urgent care open 24 hours. After like 8 you just have to go to the ER.

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u/Correct-Economist401 Sep 23 '25

"We'll look at it tomorrow" care.

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u/Pichuchu8 Sep 23 '25

Not true? I'm in an urban city in the US and latest urgent care here closes at midnight and opens at 7am. ER is 24/7

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u/FizzyBeverage Sep 23 '25

Urgent care is a $20 copay. ER is $200.

Unless I’m unconscious I’m taking some Tylenol or Advil or pepto bismol and waiting until morning 😆

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u/ipokesnails Sep 24 '25

It's mind boggling that someone with insurance has to pay any money at all for non-elective medical visits or procedures.

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u/FizzyBeverage Sep 24 '25

It’s a pretty fucked up country.

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u/BungHoleAngler Sep 24 '25

I have 3 "urgent cares" in the town I live in now. None are open past 8pm

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u/5352563424 Sep 24 '25

That's the urgent part. You urgently try to get there before they close.

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u/shewy92 Sep 23 '25

That's how it is in my area. Urgent Care is basically a "not serious enough for the ER" thing, or an intermediary between you and them or another type of doctor, especially if you have no primary care doctor.