Campus Health Services Team

Wednesday, ten in the morning, at the health clinic at the far end of the first floor of the Student Union. The waiting room, faintly smelling of disinfectant, has a reception desk, a single blood pressure monitor, and a shelf of well-thumbed health pamphlets. When you hand over the consultation referral from the Counseling Center, the reception nurse reads it and passes it to the internal medicine public health doctor. The referral contains just one line: "Please assess sleep patterns and physical symptoms." The medical team sees dozens of students a day, but for students who come in with a referral like this, they have a set order. Body first, then the talk. From behind the partition comes the sound of a blood pressure cuff being unfastened, and the nurse sets a questionnaire and a pen down in front of you.