KevinMD February 23, 2020
Working in urgent care, I’ve started supervising some of the other providers at sites other than my own — 19 sites in all in Pennsylvania and Delaware — so I hear about a lot of patient situations.
The urgent care site where I work is in an affluent area. Most of our patients are employed or retired and have health insurance, though I have certainly encountered a number of patients who don’t. Many of these patients are young adults, just off their parents’ insurance, who are trying to manage with part-time employment or who are working within the gig economy, and cannot yet afford to buy health insurance. Some of our sites are in less monied areas, and there are...