support – “Health: I did need the spinal tap as well as the drainage.” My post – “I got news for you, you probably didn’t even need one.” was rhetorical. It probably wasn’t a student, but a resident who hadn’t done it at all or more than once or twice.
“My issue is with a student performing something for the first time without supervision. Yes I blam Maimonodies because of how horrified my drs at other hospitals were when I said how I was treated. They have different protocols which center around the patient not the med student.”
They were “horrified” because they know how to manipulate. You were upset and they used it toward their advantage. I don’t know if they are affiliated with teaching hospitals, but everyone who went through school themselves knows what happenned to you could have happenned in any teaching hospital. There aren’t different protocols like you claim.
“Maimonodies doesn’t have good medical care or nursing/patient. I was in the ER at Maimonodies twice and told by more than one doctor that there is nothing they can do because I wasn’t having a stroke so they can’t page my dr or any dr or resident in the neurology dept.”
I just proved that you have no reason to say they don’t have good medical care; -nursing care is something else. Why do you think that they should page neurology because you asked? Let me tell you a secret from a guy who has been in many hospitals, not just Maimonides. An ER/ED is for emergencies. It isn’t for you to see your private physician. If the doctors in the ER feel you aren’t having an neurological emergency, they have NO right to call a Neurologist, even just a Resident Neurologist. Go home -pick up the phone and call your Neurologist. You did that with the doc from Columbia and him getting back to you after hours is what any doctor who has an answering service would do. Not all doctors have answering services for them to deal with their patients 24/7, but I’m sure plenty of Neurologists associated with Maimo do! You took two different situations and put them together to say Maimo is no good and Columbia is great. What you ended up doing is spread Motzay Shem Ra on Maimo. Maybe you did it because you didn’t realize what you were doing. That’s why I asked people to post their exact stories to determine if their opinions are based on actual negligence or they have them because of some people’s negative preceptions that are perpetuated by the grapevine!