Largo Medical Ctr

Dr. Marcotte and his team are the best! I put off treatment for many years anticipating a (painful) EMG, but they did a sonogram of each wrist to see the carpal tunnel.
Surgery is endoscopic and there was no pain - was back at work the next day.
Before finding Orthopedic Specialties, I went to see another hand surgeon who does the "open" procedure and told me it's the same as endoscopic. But after reading a number of postings online by people who had the "open" procedure, endoscopic sounded a lot better.

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Pricing needs to be more transparent and more up front.

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the lab work only took about 15 mins. i rang the bell and was attended to right away. the phlebotomist tried to get blood from my left arm but was unsuccessful. then she tried another time on the right arm and was able to get it right away. she was also very friendly and was smiling the whole time.
i would definitely recommend largo medical center. i did not meet anyone there who was not friendly. it was a very pleasant experience.

They are expensive but very good. They give excellent service. The staffs and doctors are very professional and good. I had a series of tests and I got the test results quickly. Normally, you wait around for a day before you find out. They are very responsive. Their availability was fine because it was an emergency and I was there 6:30 in the morning.

Even though any visit to an ER is a long story, the LMC is average at best. I suppose if you have a choice and there's another hospital in the area, you'd be better to choose somewhere else.
The physicians were ok, but several didn't communicate much about the tests being run or describing diagnoses, etc. If you asked them you could pry information out of them. That seemed true for those in the ER and the residents and the specialists. Only one or two took a few seconds to explain. There was no clear schedule to expect a doctor to show up. We had to give the same story about medications, etc. over and over to a pile of doctors - no one seemed in charge. Our board certified family doctor was not part of that staff, so they couldn't talk to him (which makes no sense) unless we went to a different hospital.
The rooms were ok, but the nurses depended on who was there for that shift. Some were excellent and others were not. We had to go find a nurse on occasion, keep up with some medications, and ask about tests and quot;orderedand quot; by the doctor without explanation. Even with insurance, many tests are expensive (much more than the same test ordered outside of the ER) and may not be immediately necessary. Even then, there should be at least a little bit of reason given as long as it's not immediately life or death. Some tests were duplicated (same thing ordered by different doctors) and our family doctor concluded some things just ran up the bill and had little to do with a diagnosis.
Ordering food was a weird phone system with a card of instruction (hard to read and there were no verbal directions).
The billing is crazy. Even with insurance in-network, and even with several family members asking constantly about costs, etc. After the visit we got 10-15 different bills from doctors (some residents), labs, and weird charges. Before leaving we went to the office to and quot;settle the billsand quot;, and even then they didn't mention all the multitude of extras - and we specifically asked while we were there!!

He is a hand specialist that uses a procedure that is difficult to find by others. He performed an endoscopic procedure. My recovery time was half that of traditional methods. The scar is essentially invisible, as he placed it in the crease of my wrist. I had a very difficult time finding a doctor who could do this endoscopic procedure. The surgical procedure only took about 15 minutes. I recommend him to others. The pain from carpel tunnel is completely gone and my hand is back to normal.

My mother was rushed to largo Medical Center by ambulance, the emergency room was excellent, they immediatly ran lots of tests to see what was wrong, she was found at a physical therapy facility that was reffered to us by her doctors at this facility, she was found unconsious on the bathroom floor. After many tests she was admiited for 7 days and then transferred to an assisted living facilty. She received excellent care during her stay here and they were very compassionalte and thorough.

I was in the hospital for a knee replacement. The procedure went well and the nursing staff was great. I was there for 4 days and was well taken care of. everything was explained to me as it happened and rehab was started. I would certainly go there again for any procedure.

Horrible, I would never go back.

He is doing fine now. We like them very much.

Everything's okay now with my husband and he's doing fine. We really very much liked the facility and what they do there.

He is highly skilled. I am satisfied with his service.

They don’t give their nurses what they need to care. It has been a couple of years since u have been there and nobody can pay me to go back there. The nurses are under equipped. They do not care about the patients. I do not like them. Some of them might be good, but that has not been my experience. I had to wait for 4 hours to get in. The staff friendliness was not enough. The bedside manner was fine with some of the doctors and nurses but the rest were bad. I would not send my enemy to them.

They did their job. My wife had a heart attack and they get her back on her feet. The overall care wasn't that great. It was the closest hospital. There were some lapses in attention. She was apparently released without seeing a doctor, kind of kicked out. They were sure to have us stop by the financing department and vacuum out my checking account.

I volunteer there. I liked their treatment of my family when they had to be there.

They have single bed rooms which is very comfortable. It is a small operation and I would not go there for something really serious, but for smaller issues they are good.

It was on a Sunday evening, and Brandon was 2 years old when the incident occurred. He fell off of a chair onto the floor and he put his teeth through his lip. Brandon is disabled and he was screaming. It is hard to explain to a disabled child that they were going to sew up his cut lip. However, they were real good; one of the nurses just got real close to his head and started shushing him and talking softly to him. When I went into anaphylactic shock, they took me in right away. They didn’t make me wait, and I was there till 3 in the morning. I still had good care. There was a change in shift because of which I saw one set of doctors in the beginning and then another doctor towards the end, but even though I was there for quite a while, they gave me pretty effective treatment and they tended to me. They didn’t leave me to sit there wondering what was going on. Also, I had dropped the key of my electric scooter when I went in, and when I went back home after everything was done, I realized that I didn’t have the key. I called them up and described the key to them and they had it waiting for me.

Horrible experience. In the Emerg. Rm., I had to ask for information and assistance frequently; I didn't even know who the attending physician was at first. The Emerg.Rm. staff couldn't access my mother's medical records of just-run tests at the associated hospital and clinic so the same tests were run but couldn't be compared. The staff apparently wasn't allowed to contact her specialist whom she'd just visited within a few weeks. After admittance, doctors came and went but weren't explaining anything and apparently weren't communicating among themselves, e.g., one couldn't do something until the other one did but no one was doing anything. By Christmas Eve day, my mother was fine but we'd been waiting for over 16 hours for one test's results. Only when I really fussed did staff discover that the results had been reviewed the evening before and permission had been granted for her release. More fussing on my part FINALLY got the attending physican to release her. Otherwise, I think they'd have left her through Christmas, even though she was doing fine. They never issued a diagnosis. Her family physician figured it out later.