I was at my PCP office on Wed and a woman came in and said she’d been sent there by the hospital surgery center because her BP was 215+. She had a woman helping her (maybe a medical appt driver?) and neither really knew what was going on, just that she was told to get there ASAP. Um, shouldn’t she have just gone to the ER right there at the hospital?
This was an older woman, probably in her 70s, and overweight, but this doctor’s office wouldn’t have equipment to do more than an ekg, bp, monitor her for a little bit.