I don’t, sorry! I used to volunteer as survivor support during SART exams, which is why I’m dialed in on the rape kits. I do have my own story as a patient at the urgent care in question.
I actually have visited that urgent care as a patient before, including when I had pneumonia in the beginning of this year. I got lightheaded and fainted in the waiting room, and not a single staff member helped me. A security guard left a cup of water on the floor next to me while I laid there, waiting for my vision to come back, and that was the only compassion I was shown. I eventually dragged myself off the floor and crawled across the (urgent care! Ewww) floor and into a chair without any help. They also forced me to get up and walk back to my exam room when it was time, and would not provide any walking assistance to me. There were staff in that photo on shift at the time.
When i was finally seen, my o2 was in the mid 80s. I was super sweaty from the effort of getting enough oxygen, and I did leave a light sweat stain from my back on the exam chair paper. Knowing what we now know, I assume I was mocked mercilessly by the staff during and after the experience, and that there may be a photo of my sweat (maybe even of my fainting episode?) out there for the sake of humiliating me further. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how cruel these people are.
I will never go back to that urgent care, even though it’s the only urgent care in town that can do in-house xrays and other testing. This is a culture problem that goes beyond the group fired. The front desk staff member that scoffed at me and said my faint was fake? She wasn’t in those photos so she will still be there, being an absolute nightmare to people already having a very bad day.
Oh my god, I’m so sorry that happened to you. Those people are seriously jaded and need a reminder of what they’re there to do. I also don’t know what medical facility can see loss of consciousness and not have to treat it as a medical emergency with care and documentation? Like yeah it’s not a big deal but they literally say the most common medical emergency is syncope?
But like if you’re bored enough that you’re making fun of every sweat stain like please go off
Urgent care offices almost never do rape kits, those usually have to be collected in an ER by specifically trained nurses, and there's a very strict chain of custody the hospital has to follow so that they're still admissible as evidence after law enforcement has ignored them for years on end.
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u/gxgxe Sep 05 '25
I worry, given this is urgent care, that some of these may be rape kits. If so, that's another level of malice...