A few years back, I went to a doc-in-the-box for a completely non-urgent, easy to treat ailment. I had an itchy rash in my groin, and on my foot. Hello, it was jock itch and athletes foot, all I wanted was a script for a non-OTC strength anti-fungal. The Nurse Practitioner wouldn't even see me. In fact, she wouldn't even address me, she told the clerk at the desk I need to go to an ER or find a primary care MD because she wasn't comfortable doing the examination.
Bitch! She's a medical professional!
The clerk walked me to the door and gestured to the shelf of OTC products, and said I should try one of them. I was aghast, as if I'd buy their crap after being treated like a leper.
I have almost 20 years hospital experience, and this to me was completely flabbergasting. And, this is something that's wrong with our health system here in the US. That hooker shouldn't be allowed to arbitrarily decide who to treat and who not to.
If their policy is "We Won't Treat Any Man With a Rash" then maybe that should be on the door or something.
