EP 6: Urgent Care and all things hypertension

PA-S, FML: Inside PA School, from a Real PA Student with stories, studying, and advice.

Despite its name, Urgent Care is a lot more chill than say, the emergency department or hospital medicine. PA Kay shares a brief Urgent Care behind-the-scenes and top-10 most common complaints & diagnoses. She then takes a deep dive into #2 on the list: hypertension. Do you remember how to officially diagnose, classify, and treat this super prevalent condition? And what's your guess for the thing that beat out HTN to take the #1 slot?