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| - I went in with a sore throat, recent cough, body aches, shortness of breath, and feeling fluish. They performed a strep test which was negative. Then the doctor came in and started asking questions about my symptoms. He said "people don't just come in here with a sore throat after a day. What's the real reason you're here? What's really going on here?"
I was so confused?!? Is he accusing me of lying about my symptoms, coming in for medication, hypochondriac, or just wasting his time? First of all, I said the cough has been for a day, the sore throat has been for a few days. He said "well it's not strep, what do you think it could be?" Sir, I didn't go to medical school. I'm about as medically trained as other fools on Google. I have a biology degree which I guess gives me some bacteria/viral knowledge but I'm not diagnosing myself. That's why I'm here. So he starts rambling on about mono. I am pretty certain this isn't something I have. But we do a mono test, negative. They are out of rapid flu tests so they swab me with the flu test but have to send out to a lab, about 4 hours for results per Doctor. The chick that swabbed me said results in 2 days! What the hell??
I called 7 hours later to check if results are in and the man said "these tests don't get picked up until night time, you were misinformed" but he checked in my file, said he would look into it, and did call me back about 10 minutes later. Flu is negative. I still have no answers here. My toddler had pneumonia 3 months ago and has been battling "daycare colds" for months. I probably caught something from her. But it would be nice to have a diagnosis (especially since I'm pregnant currently) and not be treated like I'm coming in with symptoms of a hypochondriac. Don't question your patients and ask "what's the real reason you're here?" It's rude.
I will never come back to this Urgent Care. You get better service and are well taken care of at the Walgreens walk in place. I'm still left with no diagnosis as I lay on my couch unable to talk from pain, body aches, and feeling like crap.
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