2 /5 Martin Fallenstedt: Urgent care is the one and only way to be seen by a physician! For more modest health issues an appointment should be scheduled with your primary physician. This appointment is usually 2 months from the time you call. Then sometime along the line the physician leaves and you have to schedule a new appointment with the new physician. Then the physician has some private issue that prevents him/her from working that day and another new appointment has to be scheduled 2 month down the line. By the time you get to see a physician you are either cured by some other means or dead.