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Re: Question about Planned Parenthood
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:23:04 -0500 (CDT)
My gosh! Sounds like a bad experience. What do you take to show income?
I only have a summer job and I am a student most of the year without a
job. It's far away too, so I hope I don't have to go back because I
forgot something! When you waited, did you have an appointment - or did
you just walk in?
At Sat, 19 Jul 2003, holly wrote:
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>i used planned parenthood about 8 years ago. so my info may be
>outdated. but here's my experience.
>
>i did have to get my medical records showing my last pap smear. also
>had to give them something verifying the amount of income we made. you
>still have to pay for the birth control, and they charge you higher if
>you have more income. since i was employed, but between insurance
>companies, i paid 8 dollars a pack. not bad, but not great either back
>in 1994.
>
>also, for some reason i did have to have a pap smear. i think it was
>because the one i had right before was abnormal. it took more than 3
>months to get results from them. and the wait in the waiting room was
>more than 2 hours. also, i never saw a doctor, only a nurse
>practitioner who told me that i needed to loosen up before exams by
>masturbating. OMG.
>
>other than that, it was a decent way to get birth control. fortunately,
>my insurance was approved before i had to see that nurse practitioner
>again.
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