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VOLUME 122 | ISSUE 57 APRIL 4, 2016 UA Athletics STICKING THE LANDING SEE PAGE 14 MONDAY 2 April 4, 2016 VISIT US ONLINE cw.ua.edu facebook The Crimson White instagram thecrimsonwhite twitter @TheCrimsonWhite CONTENTS cw.ua.edu P.O. 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Material herein may not be reprinted without the expressed, written permission of 2:04 p.m. 3 Apr 2016 2:33 p.m. 3 Apr 2016 2:37 p.m. 3 Apr 2016 The Crimson White. Editor | Elizabeth Elkin [email protected] Monday, April 3, 2016 3 SHC provides convenient care to UA students By Will Jones | Staff Reporter for them to come through us rather than to try and said he believes students should visit the Health do it on their own … The other thing that that does, Center before going elsewhere. The University of Alabama’s Student Health is it allows them to have some continuity with us. “I think the University students should go to the Center (SHC) provides healthcare, unsurprisingly, We can kind of be involved in that communication Student Health Center first … Then, if they see the to students and only students. However, the SHC process and be aware of what the student’s situ- physician there, then [SHC physicians] can refer may not be the closest resource for students liv- ation is, and that way, if they end up in an acute them to one of the local people for surgical proce- ing off campus. Despite this, multiple physicians situation, like a flare up of a chronic condition, and dures or anything that they can not handle at [the] recommend the SHC as a student’s first stop they do come and see us, we’ll already have their Student Health [Center],” Glenn said. for healthcare. communications and records from that specialist Glenn said in emergencies, like when a student Dr. Todd West, a practicing physician at the to facilitate the exchange of information.” has a fever, severe abdominal pain and is vomit- SHC, said the SHC employs 20 healthcare provid- ing, they should seek the closest emergency room. ers that work both full and part time, and will see Glenn followed up by saying that students should patients regardless of whether or not they have visit the SHC for common colds, sinus congestion, health insurance. cough or sore throat. Among the providers are two psychia- Morgan Parson, a junior majoring in nursing, trists, physicians, nurse practitioners and said the SHC “is a great resource” for students OB-GYN specialists. who are unfamiliar with local doctors’ offices. The SHC sees hundreds of students per day dur- I think in every case, students should “[The SHC] does have a psychiatric clinic. They ing the school year West said. have a women’s health clinic for gynecological “I think our total [number of visits] is somewhere come to the Health Center fi rst … exams, pregnancy tests … They have a walk-in clin- around 40,000 visits a year. During the school year ic, which is great if you just need to be seen right we probably average somewhere between two to then if you think you have the flu or something like three hundred visits per day,” he said. — Dr. Todd West that. You can get prescriptions filled at the Student West said he believes students should go to the Health Center, so that is a great resource for why SHC before going to a specialist or other doctors’ you should go to the Student Health center when offices in Tuscaloosa. you’re not familiar with the area,” Parson said. “I think in every case, students should come to Parson also said in cases of emergency, students the Health Center first … If it is a true emergency should visit the DCH hospital on campus, or the and it’s after hours, then obviously they should nearest emergency room. just go to the closest emergency room, which is A student who needs medical care can visit the going to be DCH or possibly Northport [Medical Dr. Earl Glenn, a practicing physician in SHC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with urgent care hours Center],” he said. Tuscaloosa for more than 45 years, spent the last from 5 to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and West said students in need of a referral should eight of those working at the SHC. He is currently 1 to 4 p.m. on weekends. During the summer, stu- visit the SHC first. retired from active practice, but still sees patients dents can visit the Center from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. “It probably would always be a smoother process at the Clinic for rheumatic diseases. Glenn also during the week. Visit the SHC for: Go elsewhere if: -Upper respiratory infections -A medical emergency -Common cold -A referral from their doctor to see a -The flu local specialist -Sports related injuries -Need prescriptions filled -Pregnancy tests and other women’s issues -Need a referral to see a specialist Information courtesy of Todd West, M.D. and Earl Glenn, M.D. CW / Mary Kate Holladay Editor | Leigh Terry [email protected] Monday, April 4, 2016 4 COLUMN | COMMENCEMENT UA seniors deserve commencement speakers By Matt Gillham Staff Columnist The University of Alabama ought to have com- mencement speeches for graduation ceremonies. Certainly, it could just be an innate longing for four years of my life to be neatly tied in the pre- sentation of some sort of ambiguous, predict- able cliché. It could just be to grasp some sort of comfort in the reiterations of words I could find elsewhere on the internet from somweone whose success wraps me up in their It’s-All-Going-To- Work-Out blanket. But I posit to you that it’s far more essential to the graduation from university CW / Marguerite Powers life than that picture presents. I’ll graduate on May 6, and while dozens of COLUMN | STORYTELLING other schools, private and public, have scheduled commencement speakers, the University unfortu- nately chooses not to. Sharing stories makes for better professionals This year’s upcoming slate of commence- ment speakers throughout the U.S. includes because the story is what makes and many times this is not the Condoleezza Rice, Madeline Albright, Sheryl the issue real for other people.” preference of the individual, but Sandberg, Coach K, Jane Goodall, James Franco, Esther’s story moved me to tears at the end of the day, many of the among many others.

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