The camnpus resource I went to was the Student Health Center. I actually found out about the student health center from one of my friends who had a check-up appointment there. Unfortunately, a few weeks into the semester, I (along with many students) got very sick. At first I thought it was a cold, so I went in and they checked me out and gave me a strep test, and sent me on my way. I was supposed to come back if the symptoms didn’t go away. Unfortunately, I had to go back. It seemed that I had a sinus infection, so they gave me antibiotics. I am allergic to most antibiotics, and I have a list of ones I can take. The one they prescribed me was on my “okay to take” like, but unfortunately I had an allergic reaction from it and had to stop. I ended up going back and they prescribed me some other type of medicine, which ultimately helped me get better. Unfortunately, this whole process lasted about 3-4 weeks. For all of the times I went to the student health center I made an appointment. The first time was a walk-in, and the second and other time I used BuckMD to make the appointment. For every single time I went there, there was an incredibly long wait. I had to block out at least an hour and a half for each appointment since the wait time for everything was so long. I had hoped that the student health center would be a high priority of the Ohio State University, since they have such a well developed medical program. I had hoped that it would be very hard to get anything done there. Unfortunately that is not the case. The student health center is not the best, in my opinion. The first time I went, the nurse who was inputting my information barely spoke English, so it took an incredibly long time for me to explain what I was allergic to, and different medical conditions I have. She didn’t understand most of what I was saying and I had to draw pictures and google definitions for her. It was incredibly frustrating since I had expected it to be better. Even the scheduling process for walk-ins is terrible. The front desk people are very rude. I had asked them questions about how to schedule an appointment, etc, and they just overall were not nice at all. Scheduling a walk-in took 30-40 min of wait time. I am not sure why they don’t have a better system. If there are 15 people waiting to schedule an appointment and it takes a while to schedule, why would they only have one person working? Even when I was at my appointment I had to wait an hour. In addition to that they brought me back and started my appointment, then made me go wait for another 30 minutes because they “forgot” there was another appointment. I had hoped that the student health center would be a good place to go if I was sick or if I needed help with some medical conditions, but honestly I had more success doing the Cleveland Clinic virtual visit. I would not recommend the student health center. It was a giant waste of time and was not worth the wait.
