<p>This might seem like a dumb question, but who or where do you go to if you get sick in college? I have yet to go to college, so I wouldn't know. Thanks...</p>
<p>Most colleges have a clinic where you can go and be treated. This is something you will get information about after you enroll in a college.</p>
<p>Yea, health and wellness centers are standards on college campuses.</p>
<p>yup, they'll have a health center</p>
<p>Most colleges have a counselling center too, if it's the other type of sick!</p>
<p>Mine has both a health center and a confidential counseling center -I'd guess most probably do</p>
<p>haha 311 ha-ha</p>
<p>I had to use the one over at my school in late september. It was free and basically like any normal doctor's visit.</p>
<p>we have a health center on campus where you can make an appointment to see a doctor. They also do some medical testing there (like x-rays, blood tests, etc) if you need that done. And there is a pharmacy where you can get your prescriptions refilled or buy over the counter meds like advil. The bill is charged onto your student account (so you pay it when you pay tuition)</p>
<p>what if you're full-fledged sick, like vomiting and sneezing and coughing and .. well u have the flu lets say. then what? hang out in your dorm all day? what about eating.... maybe a nice roommate to bring u food who isn't afraid of being infected by your nasty virus?</p>
<p>masha,</p>
<p>I am a little confused by your question. If you are full fledged sick, then you will go to student health. The sad thing about getting the flu is you usually have to let is pass but you can get something to help alleiviate the symptoms.</p>
<p>I know my daughter got really sick while at school. The friends took her to the ER at 2:30 a.m. (found out tht she had a respiratory infection). While she was under the weather they brought her back food, shared class notes with her and even contacted her dean to him know that she was sick so that the dean could send an e-mail to the professors. So yes, I was happy to find out that she had a really good network of friends who did look out for her.</p>
<p>Getting sick at college is almost inevitable, as it will happen. You may get a cold, the flu or something more serious. It is no so much that you should run to student health the first time you sneeze, but you should be proactive in maintaining good health , eat well, take a good multivitamin, get adequate rest (yeah, right for a college student) and monitoring your symptoms as if you are not feeling better in a day or 2 go to student health.</p>
<p>it's always great when you have really good friends who can look out for you like that. most times if i was sick i'd stay in my apartment in my bedroom, or i'd go to my bestfriends house and stay there. i stayed there for two or three days once when i was sick. i came home during the days and got showered and changed and would just go back. my roommates all had a lot of work to do and i didn't want my coughing and whatnot to keep them awake/from their work.</p>
<p>Having been a medical mess in college, I'll answer.</p>
<p>It depends on what you mean by "sick." If you've drunk too much, have strep, have mono, or the like, you'll probably go to your student health center. If you sprain an ankle, you'll probably go to the trainer's (yes, my alma mater sent me to the athletic building). If you are sick in a bad way (I had HUGE problems), then you'll be treated by a local physician - student health isn't going to help with casts, trauma (car accident stuff) or things that need surgery or advanced care. If you need MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, etc., then you'll have to go to a local physician.</p>
<p>Make sure you get a card from your parents health insurance plan providor. If your parents are part of an HMO, you will probably be able to find a doctor in network in your collge city/town.</p>
<p>At my school, if you need any kind of medical attention, you call the health center. You talk to a nurse, and she decides if you need to be seen immediately, or if you can wait for a normal appointment (which is often the same day anyway). If you're too sick to go to them, campus police will come get you and take you there. If it's a real emergency, then campus police will call you an ambulance and take you straight to a hospital. </p>
<p>If you're too sick to stay in the dorm but not sick enough for the hospital, you can stay in the infirmary and they'll keep an eye on you and make sure you stay hydrated and stuff. There's also a "cold center" in our health center, where you can go in and take your temperature and help yourself to cold medicine and stuff if you don't think you actually need to see a doctor. When in doubt, ask your RA. He/she will know where you should call, and at the very least you'll get some sympathy and probably some chicken soup out of the deal. </p>
<p>I called the health center for an earache, and they saw me immediately and sent me home with everything I needed to get better.</p>
<p>Biology lab. ;)</p>
<p>YYall are all lucky... at the college I go to we don't have a heath center since it's a junior or community college</p>
<p>Or, if you go to a really small school with an awful health center...you go straight to the doctor if you need it. Everytime I went to my health center they misdiagnosed me or couldn't do anything to help. Having a primary care doctor at your college is a good idea if you have ongoing medical problems.</p>
<p>Eliz, at most junior or community colleges, there's no campus housing, therefore no need for a health center. If you're living with your parents, they'll get you to a doctor or hospital when it's necessary. If you live in an apartment, with friends or alone, then you should be able to find a doctor to go to and a way to get there. If its an emergency, well, you committed 9-1-1 to memory when you learned to talk.</p>
<p>Frostburg2010, there are some junior colleges that do and some that don't. In Texas where I live though most of them do... and some of them have health centers, but the school I go is one of them that don't. And I know how to talk thank you very much.</p>