Caroline Street and Patient First
A few recent posts have mentioned the Caroline Street STD clinic and also mentioned Patient First (or other walk in clinics). They both have their merits.
With Caroline Street the services are totally free and you can use a fake name and SSN. Nobody cares. But, the place is so full of patients that you might come in and not get seen at all that day. Sometimes they will just tell you to come back the next day. If you are seen, you will get diagnosed and treated for various bacterial infections immediately. Last time I went there I was forced to return for the HIV result.
With Patient First you can come in anytime you want. You will be in and out in an hour and it is available every day. You won't be sent away. If you have health insurance, they will probably accept it. They will only send your medical information to your normal doctor if you request it be sent. They will take blood and / or urine samples and have it sent out for analysis. They may give you treatment based on your symptoms and your history, or, they may wait until lab tests are returned. For me, they told me I would only receive a call if something came back positive; I never received a call but a few days later I received a negative lab report via US mail. The mail worked fine for me, but you married guys might worry about that.
One note on prices. My bill indicated very high lab costs for which my insurance company paid only a fraction. The lab then reduced the fee to whatever the insurance company paid plus about $5 that I paid myself. Perhaps those lab fees (and Patient First fees?) need to be negotiated if you don't have medical insurance.
I'm now very careful with condoms and haven't had any smptoms for years, so I haven't been to either clinic for about 6 months. Years ago I did 2 or 3 BBBJs plus 1 or 2 CFS per week; I made frequent trips to Caroline street and other clinics because I needed antibiotics. For my recent checks, I've used Patient First because it is so much easier than Caroline Street.