I have been going here for close to 20 years. It's way better than an emergency room or scheduling with a PCP. They are reluctant to give out morphine derivatives, which is fine with me, I am reluctant to take them. If you prefer a long drive and a longer wait for service, go to Kent or Rhode Island Hospital. They are not afraid to hand out scrips for pain meds or stick you with Dilautid. (sp?)\r
ER care stinks, they are so overloaded that this is inevitable. The most time I have waited at Kent was 2 1/2 hours, at RI Hospital 3 1/2 hours (although I walked away from a 5 1/2 hour reported wait by the duty nurse), and the most I ever waited at the Doc in a Box was about an hour, during a flu outbreak and a couple broken bones in front of me. Heck, I waited 3 hours for an X-ray for my son at RIH!\r
Knock them all you want, but compared to similar patient-physician loads in other facilities, these guys rock. Follow-up on the phone is effortless. If you need the warm fuzzy feeling you get from your PCP, then only get sick during business hours. Barring that, these guys are great and are all I ever use.
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