urgent care

noun

medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems:
access to urgent care.
urgent care center.

First recorded in 1955–60

Ryan McGarry M.D., director of the documentary Code Black, addresses the dismal state of urgent care.

Urgent-care clinics are springing up in retail stores across the country.

Over the past several years, the popularity of urgent-care (or “retail”) clinics has risen dramatically.

It soon became evident that our mineral resources should receive equal though less urgent care.

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