New Mexico ? A young patient sauntered into a medical clinic Friday morning and got prompt treatment – a tranquilizer dart and a quick trip back to the wild.

But, this patient was the four-legged kind: a young black bear who was probably hungry from a winter of hibernation.

“He did not have an appointment,” said Todd Sandman, director of public relations for Presbyterian Health Care Services.

The 125-pound male bear, perhaps 2 to 3 years old, wandered into the Presbyterian Medical Group gastroenterology laboratory about 7:15 a.m., Sandman said.

The bear got in through an automatic door at the lab, a stand-alone building off one of the main drags in Rio Rancho, north of Albuquerque.

“I think the person in the waiting room was pretty surprised,” Sandman said, and everyone was safely evacuated.