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| - I used McKinley a lot while I was a student.
First, let me point out that it is not, as another reviewer put it, free. McKinley actually charges a fee, which is added to your school bill. It's not too much, about 300 or so dollars per semester. This is in addition to the health insurance fee charged by the university.
That being said, $300 for 4 months is still a very good deal. The reason most students feel that the service is poor or that the wait times are long is that most of them do go when they're sick... which is flu season. So of course if everyone's there at the same time, there's going to be long wait times -- especially if you don't make an appointment, which most students do not.
And 90% of the students who show up either have the common cold or food poisoning. There's not that much a doctor can do about those, except tell you that it'll heal with time and maybe give you a pill to make you feel better.
Anyway, if you take out the long wait times during flu season, I think the service is actually pretty good for a college health center.
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