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!
thats strange the urgent care I went to yesterday because I had to get tested for work (which they changed because of the cdc change so i didnt have to get tested) basically said they are doing test but if someone comes in with an actual illness they will be seen first and the tests will be done as the nurses/doctors are done seeing actual patients.
surprised your urgent care didnt have a similar policy
Yes they are doing the same, still a two hour wait. If it weren’t for all the testing they could dedicate more resources to treating the sick.
Thats unfortunate - I hope your daughter feels better soon and gets diagnosed properly soon.
That means they are NOT treating the sick first.