Medical

Sick call. The process is in your facility handbook.

You will mostly see a PA rather than a physician, and there is a small copay for visits you request yourself. It is two dollars, it is not waived because you are broke, and it should never be the reason you do not go.

They probably will. Keep going. Document every request and every response, because that record is what your family can escalate with from outside.

Every unanswered cop-out is evidence. The remedy process is one of the places filing genuinely does work, and medical care is the clearest example.

It is in the handbook. Read that section before you need it.

Read it in your first week, when you have nothing else to do, rather than at two in the morning with something happening.

Not the ones you bring from home.

What you can get is whatever is on the formulary, prescribed inside. The prescription question covers what happens when the thing you have taken for a decade is not on it.

You will be lucky if a dentist shows up once a month. Handle anything you can before you go.

This is the single most common regret I hear. Get the work done while you are still on the outside, even the work you were planning to put off.

Psychology services exist. At most you will see a PsyD once a month. Psych medications are hard to get.

Set your expectations there and set them now. What holds people together inside is mostly routine and contact, not treatment, and the head stuff is the honest version of that.

They can, and they should. There is less they can do than either of you would like, but a documented outside inquiry creates the one thing staff respond to, which is visibility.

The family guide covers who to call and in what order, which matters more than what they say.