If
you’re looking for Jamie Murphy,
look outdoors. There you’ll find the
nature enthusiast camping, hunting,
and fishing.
When she and her boyfriend of eight
years, Phillip Lockwood, planned a
trip to South Africa, the 50-year-old
Midlothian resident could hardly wait.
It was the trip of a lifetime, but Jamie
returned to Texas feeling horrible.
She had headaches, chills, and extreme
fatigue, as well as swollen lymph nodes.
“I also had three dark brown spots that
were very tender,” she recalls. “They looked
like insect bites.”
A few days later, her misery remained,
and the brown spots had evolved into
bull’s-eyes.
“I was afraid I had some terrible disease,
and I wanted to see a doctor right away,”
she says.
Where to find a quick cure
Jamie remembered picking up a
postcard at Midlothian Movies in
the Park about
the
online emergency department (ED)
check-in service at Methodist Mansfield
Medical Center.
“This sounded perfect for me,” she says.
“I went online, selected an appointment
time, and completed the form.”
Within minutes, Jamie received an
email confirmation and a telephone call.
“Soon after I hit ‘submit,’ I was talking to a
very nice nurse,” she says. “I was so relieved.”
Jamie and Phillip waited at home for
her appointment time and then drove to
Methodist Mansfield.
“When I got there, the front staff
greeted me by name and asked me for
a few signatures,” she recalls. “Then they
took us straight back to an exam room.”
Jamie learned the source of her
mysterious symptoms: South African
tick fever. After a few days on antibiotics,
she was feeling much better.
“This is such a great program,” Jamie
says. “It’s so much more comfortable —
not to mention efficient — waiting at
home instead of a waiting room. I’d
recommend
and Methodist
Mansfield to anyone who doesn’t want to
wait to see a doctor. You can get into the
ED quickly and then get back to life.”
Or, in Jamie’s case, back to the
great outdoors.
FIND FAST RELIEF
If you’re experiencing
a non-life-threatening
emergency, schedule
your ED visit at
Methodist Mansfield
at
Jamie Murphy, here with boyfriend
Phillip Lockwood, used Methodist
Mansfield’s
for a
straight shot to treatment.
On the
HUNT
for fast emergency care
Get care quickly
with
Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
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