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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
Have you noticed that the vast majority of posters who are complaining mention wait times in the ER. Yes that can be one concern but since ALL real serious cases can seen immediately (or very close to immediate) why the real debate?
Now if you had concerns with the operation you received or the cardiac cath you got or the knee/hip replacement etc. then that would be different. That is how to measure a hospital not the ER wait times for non life threatening conditions.
I think most posters are barking up the wrong tree and extrapolating the ER waits into horrible medical care comments.
If someone has comments on care after they were admitted I'd love to try and answer them. I only have 1 1/2 years at TRVH but I know the system and the docs quite well now.
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Sorry Russ, have to disagree with you...The majority of the negative posts did complain about waiting times, but in addition some of us pointed out what we had seen there in regards to lack of care and suffering to the extreme. As I've said before, I personally witnessed a young man with an obviously dislocated shoulder, moaning in pain in a wheelchair for 8 hrs...I witnessed a diagnosed stroke patient, with spouse that worked there, leave for another hospital after sitting for 6 hrs unattended, and elderly in wheelchairs left unattended for hrs..In no way do I see this as any form of normal treatment in this country.