Urgent Care

Urgent care is where you go

When you’re a little scared

That what you feel might be a thing

For which you’re unprepared.

 

You’d rather not spend hours in

A hospital’s E.R.,

But staying home is stressful

When you’re not quite up to par.

 

So urgent care is something

That is somehow in-between,

For hopefully, by someone trained

You’ll actually be seen.

 

They’ll check you out and send you home

With meds and some advice

To see your doc (or not –

It’s up to you to roll the dice).

 

Before these places did exist,

The hospital was where

Most people went when they believed

They needed urgent care.

 

But nowadays it makes more sense,

Unless you cannot breathe,

To stay out of a hospital,

Where waits may make you seethe.