Tabitha
2/5
This place WAS helpful with certain things. I got an IUD through the program to help with bleeding and while it hasn't completely taken care of the related issues it has helped with the blood loss overall. I also received a procedure that would have otherwise been extremely expensive and the antibiotics to treat that particular concern. The migraine meds were also profoundly helpful.
However, they are very limited in resources. And I get it. But I would rather be told "we don't have the resources for this potential issue" than be gaslighted or my concerns dismissed due to the lack of resources or information. For example, my final visit I discussed issues with neither gaining or losing weight regardless of my regimen. I stopped exercising and didn't gain weight- just stayed at the weight I didn't want, nor did I lose the desired weight while exercising and restricting my diet for a couple of years. The doctor left it in her notes that I gained weight and we discussed it and that it was due to the decreased exercise. That's not true. There were MANY other times I didn't feel heard or listened to. Another example being when my radial nerve was punctured during a blood draw at Quest and I wasn't taken seriously when I brought it up at multiple visits. I was told it was work related and I KNOW it isn't. I STILL have nerve pain from that, MONTHS later.
I even reported another doctor for making me uncomfortable: he was dismissive of my issue, overly friendly and assumed I needed anxiety meds for no reason other than my heart rate was elevated (even the LCSW there didn't think that was necessary)and he lied in his notes and said I appeared extremely anxious when he told me to my face I didn't seem anxious. Hilarious that I was diagnosed as extremely anemic (which is relevant to an accelerated heart rate) and I had told him I'd had issues with accelerated heart rate before, regardless of mood or activity level.
They referred me to Winnie Palmer and I had issues there, not the least of which being the gynecologist walking away from my body with the speculum still attached. I left a different review for those idiots. THAT same place also broke a newborn girl's neck- feel free to look up the article.
OCMC also let go of my therapist that I was seeing weekly without any warning to me. I found this to be disruptive to my mental health progress. It's time consuming and difficult to build trust and rapport and this was not respected.
I am SO ANGRY with this place. It WAS free and I did get SOME help, but a lot of it was a waste of time and resources with sprinklings of abuse and dismissive, uninformed attitudes. Just because a program is free doesn't mean it's ok to mistreat me. If you can't consider the repercussions of a professional's actions, why offer a free service? People are still going to be hurt.
Go here if you are in a financial predicament with serious health problems like I was in when I qualified, but be on your guard and have realistic expectations.