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It is dated.
Every article shows when it was published. Heat advice from 2021 and heat advice from this year are not the same advice.
It is sourced.
Where an article gives you a number, the source is named and linked — a public authority rather than us.
It is signed.
A person wrote it.
And one more, which matters most here: nothing on this site will tell you not to go to an emergency room. We will tell you when to go. Whether to go is yours, and "I was not sure" is always a good enough reason.
Start here
Which door do you need — emergency room, clinic, or a phone call
If you read one thing, read that. Everything else links back to it. (Cornerstone guide — publishing with the new site.)
When to go, symptom by symptom
The straight answer for the things people search at two in the morning.
What actually happens in an emergency room
We can write this, because it is our own building.
Arizona, specifically
The things that put people in an emergency room here rather than anywhere else.
- Heat exhaustion or heat stroke
- Children and hot cars
- Hot pavement burns
- Driving into blowing dust
- Rattlesnake bites in Arizona
- Scorpion stings in Arizona
- Valley fever in Arizona
- Carbon monoxide after a power cut
The freestanding emergency room model
What we are, said plainly, including what we cannot do.
- What a freestanding emergency room is
- What "full-scope emergency room" means
- What physician-led actually changes
- What an emergency room can do that a clinic cannot
Article lists are generated from the content library — 54 guides at launch. Individual article pages publish with the new site.
If it might be an emergency, treat it as one. Both of our emergency rooms are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year — walk in, no appointment and no referral.
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