Zak calls it the Accident Room.

I call it the Emergency room, and at Group Health, where I went for Medical care in Seattle, they called it Urgent Care.

Tonight I called my new doctor here in Boston. Her office closed at 5pm, so I get the choices of Urgent care or Medical advice. At Group Health, the Medical advice nurses could do triage and then make an appointment for you the next day because they keep their appointments in a database. At my new doctor, the woman on the phone couldn't make me an appointment, or tell me if any will be available because "They closed the book at 5." She said that tomorrow I could go to Urgent care. I told her my concern. Turns out, at this new hospital, "Urgent Care" means which ever doctor doesn't have an appointment will come and see you instead of your doctor OR the emergency room, or accident room, or whatever. It also turns out that they write appointments in a book instead of entering them into a spreadsheet which is really wierd. That only took a couple of minutes, but it sure was confusing.