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What is a sense of urgency?

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Dr. Louise Andrew answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Have to go---badly!: Assuming you mean urinary urgency, it is just the feeling that you have to go quickly or you might lose control.

Answered 10/3/2016

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