I was there, hope I never have to go back, at least to the ER. Went to dr for annual physical. All test and bloodwork came back fine a week later, but 3 days after the physical I came down with staph infection on my face. Back to dr for antibiotics, another co-pay of course, 2 days later called dr, to state I'm worse, much worse. Was a Friday, before a weekend. Told to continue antibiotics. By next day, Sat afternoon, in the ER, tremendous swelling to face and severe pain. After a very very long wait and a lot of pain, given painkillers and 2 doctors came in. They went into hall, came back and said they would do bloodwork and left without telling me anything. Tech came in to get blood and I ask what the treatment plan was. Oh, they didn't tell you, you are being admitted. After 3 1/2 days in hospital, nurses on ward were rude and uncaring and not informing me of anything, was told I had less than 1 hr to pack up and get out, even though they wanted me to get a needle aspiration. Discharged me without the hosp doctor coming back in to discuss anything. After I was wheeled out of the room, my sister and brother in law was preparing to leave the room and Dr. David Jenkins, the attending hospital physicain came in and started explaining what his plan of action was. I had already left the room, wheeled away by the discharge nurse. He had never met them, did not know them from Adam and Eve and was discussing my personal health information with them, not me. Then discharge nurse explained as she wheeled me out of the hospital that I was to go immediately to the ENT, not a plastic surgeon, nor an infectious disease dr, but to an ENT, Dr. Kent Murphy's office, where he would aspirate my eye with a needle. No mention of cutting on my face. After waiting about 1 1/2 hrs in a crowded waiting room, he brought me back and then cut my eye open with a scapel, scarring me for life, then sending me home, with nothing for pain, and believe me, not only was I in shock, in severe pain and now a lifetime scar on my face like it was nothing. I guess it was nothing to him. He is male, I am a female and care about my looks. Since I had been discharged, this was considered a dr appt with a specialist, higher co-pay. This should have been done in a hospital setting, not a doctor's office, and not by an ENT Dr. He wanted me to come back in 3 days so he could say, yeah, it's healing, pay me another co-pay. So I canceled the re-check appt. First bill I got from Dr. Murphy said pay in 30 days or be charged interest. The ER and the hospital are all a joke. Where did this hospital get their accredication? I'm ashamed that my doctor, which is normally a good dr. is located and associated with this hospital. I go there because it is close to home. But if your illness or injury interfers with their weekends, holidays, etc, you are just out of luck. Eventually someone will lose their life the way things are being run over there. Someone needs to take notice of the practices that are occuring there and make some serious changes. Think long and hard before going to the ER or the hospital.
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