At college health centers, students battle misdiagnoses and inaccessible care

[bluebayou]

@Corinthian

I think that student health centers mostly function sort of like an under-resourced urgent care center. They hopefully do okay with common place issues and maybe some medication management. But I doubt most are adequately staffed or equipped for significant diagnostic purposes. You have to hope they do a good enough job referring cases for outside consultation. I worry tremendously about how they will handle Covid-19 cases, although at least we know they’ll all be on the lookout for them.

From a practical standpoint, COVID should be easy to handle for the student health center. Ostensibly, all colleges will be on a testing binge. So, as long as they are smart enough to order a test and handle it properly, one just then needs to follow the written college protocol for COVID.

I think that student health centers mostly function sort of like an under-resourced urgent care center.

On weekends, the beds also serve as a sort of drunk tank where kids can ‘sleep it off’.