Several months ago, during one of my many trips to the Urgent Care before I was discovered why I felt so icky I wanted to scream at the people in the waiting room. I'm sitting there feeling like crap and it was a super busy time for the clinic. There are approximately 20 chairs in the waiting room and this trip all but 2 were filled.
Being an Urgent Care Clinic is apparently paying off because they also have a large flat-screen HDTV on the wall. They won't change the channel so you have to watch whatever is on NBC. This visit was a sports game. I cannot remember if it was football or hockey. Now mind you I'm a sports nut with the rest of them. When I can sit in my living room, alone, watching an Alabama football game and scream, yell, cheer, and bitch until I have a headache when the game ends I consider myself a bit of a sports nut! I do believe though that there is a time and place to cheer on your favorite teams and Urgent Care is not the place.
As I was sitting there feeling like crap, with all of these other people who I don't know, waiting to be treated, I didn't feel like I was at Urgent Care. I felt like I was at a Sports Bar! There was so much chatter, so much cheering, so much swearing, that I was looking for a waitress to bring me a drink to make me feel better! Seriously people...I just want to remind everyone that Urgent Care is still a Doctor's office, not a sports bar!
The last thing I want to hear while feeling like shit is people cheering, yelling and swearing at a TV in the doctor's office. It isn't chicken noodle soup and doesn't help sick people feel better...
i second that!
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