Review: Urgent Care & Emergency Room is fanastic guide and source of useful information
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2013
Dr. Schwindt has created a wonderful, informative, useful and practical guide on when to use Urgent Care, the emergency room and personal doctors.  The book is written in plain english, but the doctor does explain terms so that you have a better understanding for the future interactions with medical professionals.The author explains the differences between urgent care and the emergency room, the costs associated with each, which types of symptoms you should have to visit each place, and empowers you with the ability to make great decisions, not to spend money on unnecessary tests and provides guidelines to make decisions.  He presents real life cases and the results in what to do and not do.Areas covered include: sore throats, blood counts, strep throats, use of antibiotics, generic vs name brand prescription drugs, pinkeye, back pain, urinary tract infections as well as the treatments.  He explains the difference between use of X-rays, CAT scans and MRIs and when each should be used.While he is an emergency room physcian he covers the importance of dental problems and associated problems they can cause in your body.This book is jammed packed with useful information and an appendix with additional resources that will any many questions you have in a calm easy going manner.Recommend this book to everyone concerned with your health and dealing with spiraling costs of health care.