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Old 10-04-2013, 11:27 AM
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As a walk-in patient to TV Hospital ER with excruciating back pain which was not being relieved by oxycontin I was forced to wait for several hours to be seen although there were only 3 other people in the waiting room. My pain was so great that I couldn't sit and standing was so painful that as I stood leaning on my cane there were tears flowing down my cheeks.

Once I got in to see the doctor, relief came fairly quickly after an x-ray disclosed a major spinal injury.

My next visit, in an ambulance, got fairly quick treatment. It was a life threatening emergency.

I've been admitted twice and the nurses were quite good.

I came away from my last admission with the best cardiologist and pulmonoligist I could hope for as my new physicians in these specialties.