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My experience at UF Leesburg was definitely not positive. The explanation is a long, but if important if you experience a life threatening illness. I was admitted from the emergency room with a staph blood infection which was rapidly spreading (already had resulted in pneumonia if both lungs). Over the next two days, I had multiple MRIs. Those studies (as interpreted by the radiologist) indicated that the infection had caused abcesses on my spine and heart valves) and emergency heart and spine surgery was required. Fortunately, as I was to later discover, UF Leesburg does not have a neurosurgeon on staff. I did not want to be transferred to Shands, so my wife, a retired RN, called our retired physician friends in Orlando who recommended a neurosurgeon and Advent Hospital. I was transferred to Advent Rollins (arriving at 10 pm) and placed in Neurosurgery Intensive Care in anticipation of emergency surgery). At 6 am the following morning, Advent had a medical team consisting of a neurosurgeon, multiple infectious disease specialist, cardiologist and invasive cardiologist, who began arriving to examine me. The rest of that day and into the evening involved multiple MRIs and CAT scans. That is when we discovered the issues with UF Leesburg. The Advent MRIs did not support the radiologist report for the MRIs at UF Leesburg. When the Neurologist obtained the MRI from UF, he stated that that the images were so bad that neither he or the Advent Radiologist, could interpret them. If UF Leesburg had had a neurosurgeon I would have undergone unnecessary spinal and heart surgery based upon a MRI that had been improperly interpreted. Instead, the Advent infectious disease team were able to treat me with antibiotics only.