Try a V.A. hospital sometime.
Try VA Palo Alto — I’m blessed to live where I do. The care there is incredibly good.
Try a V.A. hospital sometime.
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I think some are better than others. Like regular hospitals, the ones associated with top university programs tend to be better. I don’t know if any are associated with religious institutions, though. Some of those are excellent hospitals, too.
Try any hospital after Obamacare came into being. Inept, incompetent, slow, reactions to drugs not noted on chart when event happens in front of the nurse, failure to include all drug bad reactions when admitted. Failure to preform right test once they think they have a diagnosis..Idiopathic Colitis is NOT Gastroparesis Slow Motility.
Having to wait hours on your next med, call buttons don’t work. No pillows, lack of blankets. Over SALTED liquid meals when your chart says LOW SODIUM for heart issues. That box of ENSURE has 15% sodium, and contains SOY....Thyroid patients are NOT allowed soy or grapefruit. The over salted broth smelt like a old fashion out house. Stunk the room up so bad even after the crap was removed it still stunk for a couple of hours with the door open to air out the room. Hanging IV meds you are allergic to in the middle of the night because NO one put it on your chart as a NO USE drug.
Cardio work up normally takes 3 hrs if you are patient 2 for the day. Took 5 hrs, incompetent tech punctured both veins and put the chems in the arm. Then had to wait 30+ mins for a nurse to be found to do her job of putting a IV cath that was the tiniest one I’d ever seen in. Nurse hit it first try.
Stress test doc was not on the floor for 45 mins with a packed house. One woman’s IV Cath fell OUT of her arm.
They don’t know what Senior Dehydration looks like much less that it needs to be treated then and there.
I HATE hospitals. ER’s come in first as they are slower moving. 6 hrs in a ER is to long to determine a GP flare from a non existent Colitis flare. Plus they can’t match IV cath gauges to your vein size and end up blowing good veins.