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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
I agree. I was both professor of medicine at a university hospital and chief of staff at a 130 bed community hospital. For most aspects of care, from aides to nurses to your primary care doctor, you get more attention and better care from your friends and neighbors that you will ever see at a tertiary care center. When you have a rare illness, or severe trauma, the university is where you need to be. But for run of the mill hospitalizations, I would stay local, and my family and I have. The only time any of us went to a big center was when I needed urgent cervical spine neurosurgery, something that was not available at our local hospital
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what about when that local hospital refuses to treat you for the simple stuff because you had a heart transplant 11 years ago. i needed simple hydration and was made to go to Shands forcing a 3 hour daily drive on my wife...why would I trust them for any care? that was neither friendly nor neighborly and had no true medical basis, in fact it put me at risk.