<p>Say someone has a medical problem, does he go visit a regular doctor or is there usually a doctor on campus to treat on campus students or is it like high school where there are nurses, who dont do squat(well in my high school anyways). Also (if there are doctors) do they tell ur parents u visited them or not? I am just curious cuz i am very prone to getting sick and what not and dont want to really worry my parents. Thanks for the replies in advance!</p>
<p>Our health center is staffed with several nurses and nurse practitioners, a few doctors, a few GYN nurses, two psychiatrists and a lot of counselors. The health center is set up to deal with common college sicknesses. They can prescribe antibiotics, order blood cultures and do a pap smear, but they do not have the equipment to deal with more serious issues (e.g. no x-ray machine). If such equipment is necessary for a diagnosis or treatment, they refer us to the local emergency room or a specialist off-campus.</p>
<p>Our health clinic has a nurse most of the time, but one day a week (a tuesday, I believe) a doctor is there all day. It's a really small school, so I guess it's just to be expected that they don't have a great health clinic.</p>
<p>The nurse is pretty competent at treating people who are sick, though, as long as they don't need more than OTC meds. They don't phone home or anything. Just make note that you were there.</p>
<p>And no, the health center does not contact your parents unless it's a matter of life or death (your own or someone else's). All information and interaction is confidential and will not be shared without your explicit consent.</p>
<p>Our health center takes care of common college ills -- colds, mono, STD testing, and so on. We have a hospital a few blocks away so all serious stuff and alcohol poisoning victims are brought there. Aside from that, it's fairly bureaucratic and will take a few hours to get an appointment. They handle prescription drugs, to an extent.</p>
<p>We have a gigantic health center with 20+ doctors and a ton of nurses. It does therapy, dispenses medication, takes x-rays, preforms tests in the lab, and all things short of surgery. And yes, it's confidential and free (you do pay for it but it's a fixed fee for everyone in your tuition).</p>
<p>Mine is pretty well staffed. There are 2-3 doctors (incl. gyn doctors), a bunch of nurses and nurse practitioners. They accept all major insurance companies and there is a pharmacy attached (with a pharmacist as well as pharmacy students from our school of pharmacy). They can handle most normal college illnesses (colds, bronchitis, mono, STDs etc). There's an x-ray machine (I've gotten a few there before, due to pain in my hip, and nearly breaking a toe once). There's also some psychologists and counselors upstairs in the mental health clinic.
I haven't been to the doctor in a while though except the low-cost women's clinic one town over (no insurance) but this is how it was the last time I went there about 2 years ago.</p>
<p>We just went on the UCLA tour yesterday. The tour guide pointed out a large building and said it was dedicated to student health services, and was staffed with MDs, nurses, etc. He said he got the UCLA provided health insurance and only had to pay $2 extra to get an x-ray of a broken finger.</p>
<p>Probably unqiue to just a few U's in the country, but the newly built Reagan Memorial Hospital (associated with the UCLA med school) has a class one trauma center (class one means it's appropriate for the US president so if Obama is in an accident in LA, this is where they'd take him.)</p>
<p>Like the post above me said, </p>
<p>Unless you are planning to kill yourself or reenact the Columbine, the school will not contact you mom and pop. </p>
<p>We have a health center but its kind of annoying to go to since its so kind of far away from the campus and etc.</p>