Heck, I barely get past the Corpsmen when I go to our clinic. We don't have a full-srevice clinic here at our base. I understand the stresses on military medicine, really I do, but if I call and say I know my daughter must have strep, being the mother of three and experiencing it before, and I get told that I can't get in to see ANYONE at all for 3 or 4 days...forget it.
On this particular occasion, I just waited until 4 PM, called the clinic duty medic and then got a referral for the out in town urgent care clinic. We were in and out of that clinic in 20 minutes, whereas on base I have to schedule an entire day for appointments.
I'd go to these clinics if they were near me.
BTDT! The first time I made an appointment at a civilian pediatric practice, saw the doctor in 15 minutes, wrote a check for $35 (it was a while ago ...), and got the prescription filled at the grocery store, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.