I arrived at 10am with my sick daughter. She has a fever, sore throat, body ache and headache. Sick now for 2 days.I have to wait hours to see a fucking doctor because the clinic is overwhelmed with healthy people needing covid tests for travel or work. WTF?!? People who are actually sick can’t get help because healthy people are being forced to test just to live their fucking lives.
Edited to add: this gets even more ridiculous. The clinic doesn’t bill insurance for rapid tests. You have to pay out of pocket for a rapid covid test $150, and $175 for a rapid flu/covid test. And they don’t stock the plain old rapid flu test so you have no choice but to either get the bogus discontinued PCR test or pay to get the rapid test. They don’t tell you this until you wait 2+ Hours to see a dr. What a fucking racket!
Why are you at the hospital for a two day cold?
Because she has a fever and sore throat. A sore throat may be strep and untreated strep can turn into scarlet fever.
Strep usually comes with other symptoms such as white spots on the back of the throat. Only throwing this out there in case someone didn’t know this. I had strep twice a year every freaking year as a kid.
OP is at urgent care, not a hospital. Appropriate place for child with fever and sore throat, as it could be strep and won't clear on its own.
People don’t have a pediatrician anymore?
You know of a pediatrician that has an opening in the next day or two?
I have two kids. Many pediatricians won’t allow anyone in their office right now without a negative covid test—to be done at an urgent care.
ok, I hope everything works out.
You can’t get in unless you want to wait a month or two where I am.
wow…sorry to hear that
Learn to read.