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Originally Posted by Bonanza
Your hospital experience is frightening and in my mind, a red flag for the way the hospital is run.
I would opt to go to Ocala or even Leesberg unless it was life threatening and time was of the esssence.
BTW -- Shands Hospital has an excellent reputation and is a real hospital, compared to what we have here.
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Shands is part of the University of Florida School of Medicine and so it is a teaching hospital that is well staffed and run and it is in Gainesville which I think is an hour away..
Only the building is owned by The Villages here. It is rented to a group that runs hospitals and it does not have what a large teaching hospital has to offer for sure.
Even the most superior hospital would be put to the test by having the population swell in the months of January, February and March.
However, I am pretty sure asking for one's own doctor to come to the hospital for an emergency may not be realistic in this day and age.
Telling a hospital staff member that you are healthy is not realistic without your latest health records. They have a responsibility to conduct blood tests and other monitoring tests when you are admitted.
I am guessing that the chemical injected that the OP didn't want was Thalium and the test was a nuclear test to see how the blood was dispersed into the heart muscle at rest and while moving. It is an important diagnostic test if a person is suspected of having cardiac issues.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/007201.htm