Oh No | Problem with doctor

kdiamond

It was my senior year of college and it dawned on me that I didn’t have a doctor and hadn’t had a basic check up since I was in elementary school. The most I had done was a physical exam to do high school sports. I decided to apply to be a new patient with a clinic in my college town that would accept my mom’s work insurance. I went to the clinic to fill out paperwork, but was unexpectedly ushered into an exam room to meet and greet my new doctor. She came in and bombarded me with questions with no topic off limits! I felt my privacy was invaded, and before she left she asked to feel my neck. She found a bump I had never noticed before. She gave me a hefty list of tests to do and medical history to collect. I left overwhelmed and scared (she said cancer in passing so I was in shock). On top of it, I got a nice bill in the mail a couple weeks later for a visit to the doctors to fill out paperwork and a list of expensive to dos. I was in college, I had no money!