My husband shot a nail through his finger in Oct. & was taken to Desoto Baptist ER. He was seen fairly quick, that wasn't the problem. At first we were pretty pleased with the care & bedside manner of the doctor & nurses. They were making jokes, which helped my husband to relax and all so when they brought out the bolt cutters & rusty pliers we thought that was real funny. Unfortunately for my husband, it wasn't a joke. They cut the nail in half with the bolt cutters, then they sliced his finger with a scalpel so they could have enough room to get the rusty pliers under the nail to pull it out. My husband followed the cleaning instructions to a tee (a little obsessively) & had to go back twice over the next month because he was in horrible pain & it kept swelling up with massive amounts of pus. Each follow up visit he was treated as if he were bothering the ER staff & was just given antibiotics & sent home. After 2 months of constant pain & no relief in sight he went to another hospital & was admitted immediately. Now my husband is going to lose his finger because he has a staph infection that has gotten into the bone. I am sure that had the doctor not used the rusty pliers or the subsequent visits had been taken a little more seriously he would not be going through this amputation. I STRONGLY recommend NOT going to this hospital! I had heard so many nightmare stories about them & now we are having to live through our own nightmare because of them!
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