Southwest Family Medicine

When I started to run a 102.3 degree fever last week, my first instinct was to go to the student health center at Texas State. Alas, it then dawned on me that I am no longer a student at that fine institution and thus would be expected to pay an office visit for their services. Luckily for me, the BF works for a company with a liberal view on living situations and I am classified as his «domestic partner» on his insurance, so I called up a bona fide doctor on our plan.
I saw Dr. Cheever and, for a prompt care clinic, I have to say that I was impressed with her bedside manner. She made the astute observation that I had a fever and told me she wanted to test me for the flu. She was very thorough in her explanation of the test and what different outcomes could potentially mean. When my test came back positive for the flu, so explained what that meant and prescribed some antivirals for me. She was really friendly and didn’t make me feel like I was patient number 58 that she’d seen that day. Granted, my medical condition was neither complex nor prolonged, but for what I had Dr. Cheever made me feel taken care of and reassured. For routine medical conditions, this placed seemed A-​OK.