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A woman sits at a table while she meets with her doctor virtually on a laptop computer and discusses medication.
Health and Wellness | October 29, 2025

Scripps Digital Health Tools Make Access to Care Easier

Learn how Scripps digital tools like video visits, wait times and online scheduling make getting quality care faster and easier.
A primary care doctor checks the foot of a little girl who injured herself while playing. She sought immediate help at an urgent care clinic.
Health and Wellness | May 20, 2025

What Is Urgent Care For?

Find out whether your minor injury should have you going to urgent care, walk-in clinic, the ER or your primary care physician.
A mom and her young daughter go the doctor after a soccer injury.
Health and Wellness | April 24, 2024

Caring for Your Child’s Injury: Urgent Care or ER?

Your child gets injured. Urgent care or the ER? Maybe, treatment at home? Learn how to tell severity of injury and what to do.
Health and Wellness | December 5, 2023

Should You Go to the Emergency Room or Urgent Care?

For immediate and appropriate care, should you head to a walk-in clinic, urgent care or emergency room? Scripps offers direction.
Health and Wellness | July 27, 2022

What Is Croup?

Learn what to expect if your child becomes sick with croup, a common childhood viral infection that affects the upper airway.
News Releases | October 19, 2020

Scripps Medical Center Jefferson Opens in Oceanside

Scripps Health announced the opening of Scripps Medical Center Jefferson, its largest North County outpatient health center in the city of Oceanside.
Shawn Evans, MD, is an emergency medicine physician, who is featured in San Diego Health podcast.
Health and Wellness | June 10, 2020

When to Go to the ER vs. Urgent Care vs. a Walk-in Clinic (podcast)

Scripps physicians discuss when to go to the emergency room, urgent care and walk-in clinic. Knowing where to go can make a life and death difference.
Shawn Evans, MD, emergency medicine, and Siu Ming Geary, MD, primary care, sitting with San Diego Health host Susan Taylor to discuss when to go to the emergency room, urgent care and walk-in clinic.
Health and Wellness | June 9, 2020

When to Go to the ER vs. Urgent Care or Walk-in Clinic (video)

Scripps doctors Shawn Evans, emergency care, and Siu Ming Geary, primary care, discuss when to go to the emergency room, urgent care and walk-in clinic.
Health and Wellness | August 8, 2019

Recognizing and Treating Allergies and Asthma in Kids

If your little one has a chronic runny nose, is sneezing repeatedly and has a lingering cough — a cold may not always be the cause. It could be an allergy.
Health and Wellness | August 16, 2018

How to Know If Your Medical Concern Is an Emergency

Not every medical concern requires rushing to the emergency room. But some things can’t wait until you see your primary care doctor, either.