A couple years ago I came in to the clinic side to get a really bad infection on my scalp checked out. I understand that walk-in appointments can take quite a while to get to since the doctors have to go back and forth between the clinic side and the...I don’t know, registered patient side? so I was ready to wait. My mother, who was my ride there, was a lot less patient and understanding. We waited in the lobby for around 3 hours before I could get seen. When I finally got in, I explained that I don’t have insurance since I work from home, don’t make much and can’t afford it. I have depression and the reason my scalp was infected was because I couldn’t push myself to take any sort of care of myself for months. I sort of half-explained this part, and I suppose it was the only thing that stood out to the person seeing me. This person strongly suggested I “see and talk to someone more versed in this area” and go see someone else in the building. I agreed that it sounded alright, but what I didn’t know is that I was being swindled into getting checked into the ER. My mom, still waiting in the lobby, was even more upset that I was being transferred to a different area but I assured her it would be fine because I’d just be talking to someone. That was not the case. I realized the situation I had gotten into when they had me fill out more papers and needed to put a wrist band on me. I explained again that I don’t have insurance and that I wanted to leave soon, but they said they had to put the hand on me to talk to me. Well, okay. I spoke briefly to someone about my depression and kept wanting to come back to my weeping, crusted, infected scalp, but it seemed like that was the least of everyone’s worry. I told them I wanted to leave because we had been in the lobby for three hours and my ride was really angry about the wait times here. So I checked out. I never did get antibiotics, but I did get a sweet check for $800 that I had to basically starve myself to pay off. I’m usually really willing to forgive and give extra chances to places, but I don’t think I could trust this place with my medical concerns again after all that. It sucks that this is really the only place in Wamego.
