Walk-In Clinic or Urgent Care Facicilty

It's obviously not within walking distance from PH (it's a short car-service trip), but I've been to the walk-in medical clinic at 200 Clinton Street, corner of Atlantic (where Brooklyn Heights meets Cobble Hill), several times over the years when I just couldn't get in to see a doctor.

Although, I have had reasonbly good luck in convincing my doctor that I was on death's door and thus forcing him/her to fit me in somehow. Sometimes you need to play-up how sick you really are.

But avoid the emergency room at all costs, you'll just get sicker while you're waiting.

Also, you might try Dr. Elliot Schuster at 135 Eastern Parkway. I was able to get an appointment one time with him when I had a horrific cold. However, he wanted me to change him to be my primary care physician ... which I wouldn't do ... I just wanted to pay him cash. But he wouldn't accept it (is THAT weird or WHAT?). But now, looking back, I realize that with some insurance plans, you can change your PCP as much as often as you like ... even if it's just for a day or so.