Don't get sick at college

[ilovemyglo]

Oh my lord I had forgotten how horrible our healthcare on campus was!!!

There was one MD- an OB-GYN, and no matter what if you were a girl he said you were pregnant or had a VD and all the guys just had VDs.
No kidding- I went in one day, sore throat, fever, chills, it was around November (AKA Flu season!) and just general miserable feeling. He takes my temp, tells me I'm either pregnant or have the clap, but seeing as how #1 I hadn't had sex in months, and #2 just had my annual and checked out OK, he then did blood work. I had the flu, it turned out and he had to LOOK IN A BOOK to tell me what to take! AARRGHH!

ANother friend of mine went with a sore knee, he told her she was pregnant... this guy was all over the pregnancy testing!

My junior year they privatized and then the company they sold it to went under so they had none for a few weeks and then reopened it the next year in debt. They are now suing the company that they let privatize. The costs were outrageous for everything and they didn't carry half the prescriptions that they had before so you had to go off campus for meds.

I am so glad to have good insurance!!! And good doctors!!!

[AchtungBaby80]

Our student clinic is pretty big and it's free, but that's about the only good thing about it. I quit going to the MDs there after freshman year, because whenever I would come in, they would tell me either that a) nothing was wrong, or b) that I was anorexic or bulemic. Oooookay. The last straw, though, was when the OBGYN told me that I all but had cancer and I needed to go in for a biopsy, and that I should start taking 600 milligrams of Advil the day before because it was going to be painful. Well, to make a long story short, I went to a "real" doctor and found out that everything is all right. But this really takes the cake--as I was looking through the medical records the university had kept on me, I found soooooo many things that weren't right...about the only thing that was accurate was my name and age! I couldn't believe it. I will never trust those eejits in the university health service *ever* again. If they can't even get my records right, what does that say about them? Not much.

[ladybug1116]

I think it must be a requirement for University Health Centers to be terrible. Two quick stories from me...my junior year I got a spider bite on my toe and needed antibiotics b/c I was having a severe allergic reaction. Well the doctor tries to tell me I have gout (a type of arthritis----most common to elderly men) and how sad it is for such a young person to have this, and how hopefully I'll be able to walk normally, etc (I was limping badly b/c my foot was SWOLLEN and I couldn't put pressure on it) Thing is you could even see where the spider bit me!!! So she decides to run tests to "confirm" the gout (big surprise when that came out negative) and finally gave me antibiotics "just in case it was a spider bite"

Then my senior year....I rolled over on my foot one night and ended up breaking it (my foot looked like you put a softball on the top of it). Well I needed xrays...and the doctor couldn't tell if it was broken or not by looking at the films...and he wouldn't let me see my own films...so they had to "send them out" to be looked at and they said they would call me. Well they never called so I called back....so I called them and they were like "Oh yeah, it's broken, you have a stress fracture---have you been wrapping it?"

I don't know why I ever went back after the first incident....but I guess if nothing else it was convenient

I wonder why that is, that the docs at campus health centers always want to diagnose you as pregnant. My college was the same way. It's like they get a commission for every pregnant girl they see.

Even better, is that when I WAS pregnant, and had a miscarriage, they told me there was no way I could be pregnant.

[DeltaSigStan]

I guess my campus is different. But I think that's because although many people know where the building is, not many know that they're just like a regular clinic that you can go to if you're not feeling well. BUt, the service is great.

[Cloud9]

Whoa, those are some crazy stories. Luckily I go to a school with one of the best medical schools in the country, and our health center is affiliated with them, so I haven't really had a problem with being incorrectly treated. But there is a problem with the billing, I had to visit the emergency room after I fell and cut myself on a random sharp object(no, I wasn't drunk...apparently it's bad to dance with socks on a hardwood floor...). Anyways, my insurance paid them months ago, yet I keep recieving bills from them. I call, tell them I paid, they check it out, say ok we go it, and sure enough, another bill arrives. So annoying!

[Optimist Prime]

Well. Um....

When i was a Freshman, I was diagnosed with a sinus infection. Turns out, it was pneumonia.

[PSK480]

I'd trust Clarion Area more than Kill-me Health Center, and I don't really trust Clarion Area. If I was sick I'd go atleast as far as Butler to get treatment