Know Where to Go

Written By Pilot Point Health Fair

Feeling under the weather, but don’t know where to go to seek medical attention?

Follow these guidelines from our friends at Texas Health as a framework to know if you should be at your primary care doctor’s office, an urgent care center, or the emergency room:

Primary Care Doctor Visit

  • Preventative health and wellness physicals

  • General illness and sick care

  • Routine screenings and tests

  • Immunizations and prescriptions

  • Chronic pain or new health concern

  • Referral to see a specialist

Urgent Care Center

  • Sinus or cough

  • Headache

  • Stomach pain

  • Vomiting / diarrhea

  • Earache or sore throat

  • Minor burns, bruises and abcesses

  • Rashes, scrapes and cuts

  • School physicals

Emergency Room

  • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

  • Chest pain

  • Seizure, fainting, or loss of consciousness

  • Fever over 102.2

  • Severe vomiting

  • Uncontrolled bleeding

  • Life threatening injury or illness

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