Diley Ridge Medical Center

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• Referral from September 21, 2014
  

  Lindsay M. asked:

  Bad back pain...Urgent Care, Doctor, or Chiropractor....hum?

  

  Sarah P. replied:

  If you can get in to your primary doctor's office on an emergency basis in the morning that may be your best option. Otherwise: does your insurance have a nurse line? Call them if you do. If not, call the urgent care you're thinking about going to and ask them if they can help. Chances are they'll say "no," because for really bad pain you'll probably need a controlled substance and a bunch of places won't prescribe them anymore - plus it's 7 pm on a Sunday, so many urgent cares are closed. But Diley Ridge is technically an emergency room, so... (614-838-7911) FYI, if you go to the ER, you will probably sit and wait a really long time unless you start bleeding or pass out right in front of them. The last time I was at the ER (in Dublin) I was told that if it hadn't been for the urgent care dudes sending me over and the fact that I'd passed out once already, I would probably have had to wait an *additional* four hours beyond the one hour I did wait - they sped me up also because I wasn't able to walk; I got the feeling that having people falling over in a wheelchair in your waiting room distresses the other patients, as I ended up waiting a really long time flat on my back in a triage cubicle after that. When I had a nerve problem that made my shoulders, arms, and hands go complete numb (as in, I couldn't hold a pen to sign my name) *after* pain so bad that it made me puke, I waited almost 3 hours after I arrived at the ER, and they'd had warning from the urgent care guys that time, too - that was at OSU East. In that case, the urgent care guy spent a total of three minutes talking to me before saying that since this could be a heart attack or something I totally had to go to the ER anyway. (If you want better odds at getting seen sooner, go to an urgent care that's inside or adjacent to a hospital, or at least affiliated with a hospital. Sometimes they even have the authority to send you straight over to the hospital's scanning lab, which will save you an hour or two in agony. The only way I know of to get into an ER with zero wait is to be brought in by an ambulance while actually bleeding or after having been resuscitated - and even that doesn't work reliably.)

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