Visits to urgent care clinics can be expensive, and staff at these facilities are not as familiar with patients’ overall health as their PCPs. Although urgent care centers play a pivotal role in diagnosing and treating certain conditions that require immediate attention and specialized treatments, many illnesses can be diagnosed and treated in the primary-care setting. Being a patient at our practice provides patients the benefit of having a PCP who is familiar with their health evaluate their symptoms. Sometimes illnesses are linked to underlying long-term diseases, so having a PCP who is most familiar with your health evaluate your symptoms can increase the odds of uncovering an undiagnosed disease.