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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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