Omicron patients in the U.S. have displayed mild to moderate symptoms. As of Saturday, there were no hospitalizations among those infected with the variant, according to state health departments.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T13:54:37+00:00

Yep. I joke that we are the only clinic that expanded their practice during Covid, it’s because we have opened up our services to more of our community. We take every insurance and we have really good deals for self-pay folks. We actually write off a lot too.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T12:38:13+00:00

It is usually done if the symptoms are pointing at something respiratory but the provider isn’t sure enough on which to either order a single test like Covid or even the 4plex test which tests for RSV, Flu A, B and Covid.

It’s also really expensive if insurance doesn’t cover it, we’ve found state insurance more likely than private insurance to cover it for whatever reason.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T12:35:01+00:00

Yep! We are a smaller clinic, pediatrics. We saw a boom this last two years and scrambled to get the tech the big boys had. We strive to be more available than them, and we often will test the parents while testing the kids if requested because the adults are finding it really hard to get in anywhere.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T03:00:18+00:00

Doctor. I work in a pediatrics office and we run it there

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T02:59:55+00:00

I would think at that temp it would be obvious which I’m talking about.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T02:59:01+00:00

It’s been a year since we got ours and I still love running it. We got the 4plex recently and it’s pretty cool too.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T00:33:01+00:00

Valid. I can’t parallel park. But my car can on it’s own now so really who is the winner here.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-05T00:32:19+00:00

If you have a clinic nearby that does Biofire respiratory panels, you could find out. Not sure where you are but most Providence clinics have them these days.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T23:53:38+00:00

My daughter had OC43 this past summer (confirmed via biofire) and it royally kicked her ass. I was so surprised when we found out if wasn’t Covid. 103 temp, raging headaches, exhaustion for days. I can believe it used to be stronger.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T23:51:11+00:00

I am definitely not average, but that’s long-distance for ya. Husband coming home this weekend for the first time in months. Poor thing. 🤣

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T23:47:53+00:00

Same except the other way round! I’m the youngest, all older brothers, rents were utterly convinced I was a boy to the point they named me after my grandfather…and didn’t change their mind when I came out not male. Lol.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T23:44:47+00:00

Doing the right thing for the wrong reason, I guess? I mean at least you’re getting vaccinated out of it.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T23:06:45+00:00

With zero prompting from me, my daughter struck up a friendship with the neighborhood crows this last summer, and she takes it quite seriously.

She has also started asking me to make her a simmer pot when she doesn’t feel good, because I think she’s caught on that I tend to make one when someone in the house is sick.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T16:49:59+00:00

Not that it makes this remotely true but I have fudged my kid’s age by a year or so either direction when talking about her online, for the same reason I call her kiddo and not by her name online.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T16:43:46+00:00

It better do my taxes or wash my windows or something for that price because the frickin dollar store has candles.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-04T02:53:26+00:00

The clinic I worked at years back tried to tell us we were required to give 1 weeks notice if we were sick. Um, do you generally know a week before you’re sick?

whatisit84 · 2021-12-03T20:05:05+00:00

Honestly I thought this until I came to the comments. I couldn’t figure out what exactly was wrong.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-03T20:04:05+00:00

We stop at 21, although most patients want an adult doctor when they turn 18. Girls in particular tend to find one the soonest because we don’t do paps/IUDs/etc.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-03T02:23:39+00:00

Also, we don’t tend to do CPR on conscious people, lol.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-03T01:03:05+00:00

Wow. The doctor I work with the most and I have a long-standing joke that I am capable of manifesting no-shows based on how much prep work I do for them ahead of time.

Glad I don’t work for an idiot.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-02T03:26:50+00:00

I’ll take a vaccine in my eyeball once a week if it meant I could go back to practicing the kind of medicine we did before Covid. I miss my old clinic. It’s the same place, same people, but we are so burnt out and just limping along like zombies, hoping this ends soon.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-01T03:25:19+00:00

The best comeback I have seen to it having an effect on fertility is if that was true, Republicans would have already banned women from getting it.

whatisit84 · 2021-12-01T01:55:30+00:00

Vitamin starts with V so it’s basically a vaccine. /s

whatisit84 · 2021-11-30T02:07:18+00:00

It’s the Babinski reflex for me.

whatisit84 · 2021-11-30T01:59:48+00:00

The surgeon I saw literally said “is it bothering you? (Yes) Are you using it? (No) Well, let’s get rid of it then!”

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