Both a walk-in and urgent care clinic can provide medical care when you’re not able to visit a primary care doctor. Urgent care is usually reserved for more substantial illnesses or injuries. If your ...

When Americans feel sick, they often face a choice: Try to make a doctor's appointment − and potentially wait days or weeks − or head to the closest urgent care or retail clinic to see a provider ...

Walk-in clinics provide some services for minor illnesses such as colds and coughs. Urgent care is for more serious conditions that are not life threatening, such as sprains and mild burns. Knowing ...

When you’re feeling unwell and symptoms are quickly getting worse, you know you need medical attention — but it’s not always possible to get a same-day appointment with your primary care physician.

After suffering an injury or experiencing symptoms, doctors say the best place to get care depends on what you need treated.

Urgent care centers are on every corner: “You’re never more than three minutes away from pizza, a deli or a doctor willing to help.” By Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg Julia is an illustrator.

The ‘going to the doctor’ phenomenon is fading away, one 23-year-old said. This story is from Kaiser Health News. Calvin Brown doesn’t have a primary care doctor — and the peripatetic 23-year-old ...