Why Urgent Cares are bad for your health (and healthcare). A funny thing happened over the last decade. We started building urgent care centers on every corner and told ourselves this meant healthcare had become more accessible. But if you look a little closer, it starts to feel like the opposite. Urgent care works the way a convenience store works. It’s there when you need something quickly. It solves the immediate problem. But no one would argue that a convenience store is a substitute for a real food system. It’s what shows up when the real thing isn’t doing its job. Primary care used to be the place where someone actually knew you. Not just your chart, but your patterns. The way your blood pressure creeps up when you’re stressed. The fact that your “sinus infections” always come back in the winter. The small things that only matter because they repeat. Urgent care can’t see any of that. It drops into your life for a single moment, makes a decision with incomplete context, and disappears. Then it happens again, somewhere else, with someone new. Over time, you end up with a pile of disconnected decisions instead of a coherent plan. And that’s the part no one talks about. The system feels faster, but it’s also thinner. More touchpoints, less understanding. So the spread of urgent care isn’t really progress. It’s what fills the vacuum when primary care stops being available, or stops being enough. The question isn’t why urgent care is everywhere. It’s why it had to be.

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Epic MyChart is so poorly designed. How is this state of the art in the medical field