Interesting, but not surprising. I really don't like hospitals.
I don't blame you. I wouldn't like them either if the nurses and doctors didn't know what to do with a woman bleeding from childbirth just because she was in a different unit.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
That was the least of my problems. I had pulmonary edema. The first nurse I told gave me a breathing apparatus without checking my heart or lungs. Then the resident came in and I told her, but she didn't have her stethoscope with her, so oh well. I saw that it was 6:55 am and remembered the shift changed at 7, so when the next nurse came in I told her and she flew into action. Even waited outside the men's room to catch the chief of surgery between rounds and read him my case. His reply, "why isn't this woman in surgery yet?"
The only reason I'm alive is because they were understaffed that day, so they pulled a former triage nurse off administrative duty to do rounds.
And this is a teaching hospital. I'd hate to see what kind of care regular hospitals provide.
The hospital is not big, it's huge. It's the best civilian hospital in the area, but it's very busy. Crowded, actually. After being on mag sulfate for 24 hours and it was determined I was out of danger, I was wheeled back to maternity recovery awaiting my doctor to come in and disconnect me from the ms. I requested a private room. While they were prepping the room for me, I was wheeled into a storage closet (it was a large closet, BTW) where my doctor worked on my IVs. There wasn't any room in the holding tanks apparently.
The NICU has 2 or 3 rooms with over 100 babies. My boys were in separate rooms. I was so glad when they were released to INOVA Fair Oaks where they shared a private "twins" NICU room.
I have been lucky. Our hospital is ranked worst in our state and one of the least safe in the nation, but I haven't had any major issues during my stays there.
Oh, but when grandpa was admitted to hospice there were four reports from four different doctors that all said vastly different things. Ranging from 'he'll be better in no time!' to 'he's at death's door'. He passed a week later, but we are still trying to figure out what we should say to the hospital, because that was very confusing.
And this is a teaching hospital. I'd hate to see what kind of care regular hospitals provide.
I've been in the operating rooms at a lot of hospitals, both teaching and non-teaching.
The egos of the doctors and the interests of the doctors are often different.
In the teaching hospitals, many times I've dealt with department heads whose SOLE goal was to raise funds for their personal projects. Quality of medicine took a back seat.
In the non-teaching hospitals, you're more likely to find administrators who are interested in silly things like ...
quality of outcomes
quality of medical care
patient and visitors' happiness with their experience there.
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The hospital is not big, it's huge. It's the best civilian hospital in the area, but it's very busy. Crowded, actually. After being on mag sulfate for 24 hours and it was determined I was out of danger, I was wheeled back to maternity recovery awaiting my doctor to come in and disconnect me from the ms. I requested a private room. While they were prepping the room for me, I was wheeled into a storage closet (it was a large closet, BTW) where my doctor worked on my IVs. There wasn't any room in the holding tanks apparently.
The NICU has 2 or 3 rooms with over 100 babies. My boys were in separate rooms. I was so glad when they were released to INOVA Fair Oaks where they shared a private "twins" NICU room.
And don't get me started on the lactation staff.
And this was the hospital you said was "excellent" on the other thread. What does it take to be called bad? LOL
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I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you.
It does have a reputation for being one of the best in the area, believe it or not. I'm sure they have some of those "private" areas. Presidents are taken there for specialized treatment, particularly the cardiac ward. Where yes, they failed to give me a pad.
Ed, that's interesting about teaching vs. non-teaching. Makes sense though. The way they keep adding wing after wing at Fairfax, it seems they are successful at raising money.
-- Edited by FNW on Thursday 14th of May 2015 04:26:12 PM
