Northside Hospital

The experience was awful but they treated me well and did a sonogram and took pictures of the stuff. They gave me all this garbage to drink to make me go to the bathroom. It was okay. I had a shared room, that worked out. That's the luck of the draw. I had a million doctors looking at me. I didn't like that because all of them bill you. The staff that directly worked with me was good, they were funny, they took care of my needs. A lot of times I wasn't in control of my bowels and they took care of me. After 2 days, my muscles could control when and where and how. The doctors did what they were supposed to do and they did good at what they were supposed to do but they didn't go above.

, THE EMERGENCY ROOM GOT HER IN QUICKLY, DID TESTS, AND HOSPITALIZED HER IN A STANDARD WARD. STROKE WAS RULED OUT, AS WERE OTHER HEART AND CIRCULATORY PROBLEMS. AFTER A FEW HOURS, IT WAS DECIDED THAT SHE NEEDED BETTER MONITORING THAN WAS AVAILABLE IN A STANDARD WARD, SO SHE WAS SHIPPED TO MICU. GOBS OF ATTENTION! TESTS INDICATED POSSIBLE GALL BLADDER PROBLEM. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE MANY BRIGHT AND CAPABLE PHYSICIANS WHO LOOKED AT HER (DRs. PATEL AND KAMATH STOOD OUT), THE INITIAL RECOMMENDATION WAS FOR SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE GALL BLADDER. i THOUGHT THAT MIGHT CURE THE PROBLEM BUT KILL THE PATIENT. WE FINALLY PREVAILED -- NO SURGERY, AND THE PATIENT WAS SHIPPED BACK TO A STANDARD WARD. SHE HAD COMPLAINED OF A MILD PAIN IN HER STOMACH (PROBABLY CAUSED BY HER HAVING EATEN NOTHING FOR ALMOST TWO DAYS. A GI (PERHAPS A RESIDENT) VISITED HER, TOLD HER HE WANTED TO DO A COLONOSCOPY. WHEN SHE REFUSED, HE TOLD HER, and quot;WELL, IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU FEEL, YOU MAY AS WELL GO HOME!and quot; AND WITH THAT HE DEPARTED. WORST BEDSIDE MANNER OF WHICH i'VE EVER HEARD. SHE WAS RELEASED AFTER SIX DAYS TO A REHAB FACILITY (CONSULATE ON PARK BLVD) WHICH WAS EXCELLENT

I have had very good experiences at Northside Hospital. I went in, I had the surgery, and I went out. I had heart surgery and I was home in 2 days. I went in for another procedure and I went home the next day. The nurses were fine. I had no problems with anybody and I would go back.

My overall stay was for three days and my care was exceptional.