LA Free Clinic ( Hospital )
A-
So I’m feeling really shitty last week, down on myself for not having insurance, when it hits me - they have free clinics in this city for struggling actors and illegal immigrants. I call on a wednesday, and they tell me to get there by 6:30 am because the line to get in can get long. They fail to tell me what time it actually opens, and when I call back, no one answers. I am skeptical to say the least.
I arrive at 6:30, and enter the parking lot. There is not a single car in the entire lot, which is maybe 150-200 car spots. In the middle of the lot, standing there doing nothing, is an enormous black lady dressed in a security guard ensemble. She absolutely grills me for 15 solid seconds before I roll down by window and ask her if I’m in the right place. I’ll spare you the conversation but she basically told me to go home because they weren’t accepting walk ins and if they were I wouldn’t get taken with an ear infection. I waited anyways, because I felt terrible.
The line that formed behind me was literally all non-enlgish speaking latinos, and about 30 people. A lady asked to cut me because I was in the shade and she didn’t like the sunlight on her neck. I told her no because I got here first and the sun at 7 in the morning isn’t strong enough to warrant her complaint. The spanish lady behind me agreed. In spanish. So I think she agreed. She kept blowing her nose and looking at it. She used the same tissue to blow her nose no less than 25 times. It was incredible.
I finally get in, and the same security guard is sitting in the chair directing us where to go. She tells me that they are in fact taking walk-ins, but only the first 10. I was number 1, so it was golden. I had to fill out a survey about my medical and sexual history, which I found a little intrusive to be honest, but whatever, I lied on half the shit anyways.
Bottom Line - this place is incredible. It did take them a little while to see me, I think I got into an office at like 9:15, but once in there it was all business and she prescribed medicine to me that I got FOR FREE!! Not only is the service free, but the medicine too! Unreal. Actually makes not having insurance bearable. There was a homeless man behind me though that I think literally had AIDS. Full blown. And the place is infested with weirdos. Overall, not a bad experience though.
