emergency doctors appointments?

Question

if i call my doctor will they be able to book me a same-day appointment.

Answer 1

Usually yes if you phone when they open.
If not you can always go to the walk in centre and see the dr there

Answer 2

It really depends on how your clinic or practice works. In my clinic there is about 5 doctors and unless you book an appointment with a aspecific one (which can take up to 2 weeks to see each one) you can phone the clinic though and explain that you would like to be seen as soon as possible and depending on your clinic it could be a day or two or that day. Also some people just go to the clinic and sit and wait to be seen, if it's that urgent. If you have a problem that is giving you extreme bother you could see an out of hours doctor or go to yoru local A&E. All the best.x

Answer 3

Virtually ever surgery has emergency appointments which can only be booked on the day.

Here , although I am not referring to you, as you are perhaps only asking a general question, I may incur your wrath by being honest.

These days the vast majority of patients that myself and my colleagues see as emergencies, ( our policy is for our receptionists to ask only one question, ' do you feel you need to be seen today'. If the patient says yes they are ALWAYS seen.) tend to be among the most trivial patients, MEDICALLY, that we see in the day.

I can often understand why the patients are there, but in reality about 80% of all patients that we see belong to 2 main categories. The first is patients with minor, self limiting, viral illnesses with fever, who have usually been unwell for less than 24 hours. The second is patients with relatively minor more chronic conditions who suddenly decide, despite no change in there condition, that they have had the condition 'long enough' and decide it is now an emergency.

I don't mind who I see, I can only see one patient in one appointment slot, and under the current GP contract, like nearly all GPs n UK at 6pm we turn out the lights and everything else is passed over to the out of hours service. Every patient I see in this surgery will have a history taken, be properly examined and be advised on appropriate management.

The unfortunate thing is that these so called emergency patients clog up the system and delay patients with significant disease from getting seen and dealt with as quickly As they should be, and as quickly as we GPs would genuinely like them to be.

I thank you therefore for this question and the opportunity it has given me to comment. I also hope that it will have the effect on anyone who does read the answer that they are not upset, in sensed, or made to feel that doctors are callous or lazy, but just make them think for 30 seconds before they call themselves 'an emergency!'

Answer 4

sounds like what you've is an ingrown toenail. in a great number of cases the first signs and indicators of an ingrown toenail is swelling of the affected section, intense sensitivity to discomfort and launch of pus - as you've already stated. As this develops, a pyogenic granuloma (epidermis starting to be on accurate of your toenail) would take position and an infection can take position. in case you're unable to get accurate of entry to a practitioner contained in the advise time (Christmas and New year vacation journeys), bathe your affected toe in a warmth/warm salty water for 5-10 minutes time-honored. - for this reason if I were you, i'd see a well being practitioner ASAP as prolonging this should not be of benefit to you (i have had this two times earlier; a million required minor surgical procedure, the different healed via itself - both after taking an antibiotic) once you do finally see your GP/well being practitioner, they're going to in a great number of cases prescribe you an antibiotic for a week (I overlook which one) which will decrease the discomfort around the realm - and also you may opt for minor surgical procedure to fix it up; or it may heal via itself, relying on how a lot healing has gone through when you've taken the antibiotic.

Answer 5

I don't know ... try calling the office tomorrow to find out ... if not, go to the emergency room, or take the 'soonest appointment' you can get with your regular doctor.

Answer 6

Sometimes they can, although you may have to ask to see a different doctor. I know for those times when you need mediciation NOW you may have to settle for a GP or something. If it gets you the medicine, I would take it.

Answer 7

it depends on the doctors you go to. at my doctors, you have to be there before 11am and they give you a time you will be seen, its first come first served. at my partners doctors surgery you have to ring first thing to be seen that day. give your doctors surgery a ring first thing in the morning and see what they say.