[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by Nucky

Hello Mr. Carl, how is your lady friend Barbara doing it has been a while since you posted about the ER visit. Hope all is well. Nucky = Glen

Thanks for asking.

She was apparently suffering from stress associated with selling her house and planning her move from The Villages. Tests showed no residual damage although she was told that she might have experienced a bad outcome if she had failed to seek medical care.

Other health issues make it necessary to move out west to live near her children. This will probably end my visits to The Villages. I will really miss it.

[EPutnam1863]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Please, please tell me there really isn't a doctor out there that wanted to biopsy a 20 year old unchanged breast lesion. Please. I don't know if I should be angry, amused, scared, or just pity his patients.

Angry and pity his patients. Medicare does not pay enough. So it is so important to be own advocate.

We have caught many mistakes in our records, and it is very important that the patients sign up for their patient portals. I caught one huge mistake; the records indicated I was hospitalized for depression and anxiety when actually it was for hip replacement.

So sign up for patient portal at your clinic and then go over the records with a fine-toothed comb (or maybe I should say "mouse?")

[EPutnam1863]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

Thanks for asking.

She was apparently suffering from stress associated with selling her house and planning her move from The Villages. Tests showed no residual damage although she was told that she might have experienced a bad outcome if she had failed to seek medical care.

Other health issues make it necessary to move out west to live near her children. This will probably end my visits to The Villages. I will really miss it.

I hope Barb is feeling much better now. I have known many couples where the wife missed her children and/or grandchildren so much that they moved back. Or the new place contains too many unknowns. I myself would not mind moving to TV but the deaf community there has its problems, and I am too tired to have to deal with them.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by FMF Doc

Have a friend with her Mom in Leesburg Regional Hospital. She has been waiting for a room since last night. Sounds like the same scenario.

Personally if I had to go to the hospital with heart issues, I would rather be at Leesburg than TV. Just had a bad experience after I had my 5 way heart bypass 1 month before, I told them my Dr. said DO NOT catch a virus, when the receptionist did nothing to keep me away from 3 people that had puke buckets & the one nearest me was using their bucket. I swore after that I would go to another hospital if it wasn't an absolute emergency. Just don't trust TV hospital anymore. Oh yea, my $3,700. bill was thrown in the trash by TV hospital CEO. $3,700. & they did absolutely nothing!

[Gail herrmann]

Be careful in any season. The medical care in the Villages is beyond atrocious.

[Gail herrmann]

I read in my records that I was suffering from severe depression due to my husbands death. Not only was my husband very much alive but I wan not depressed!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Gail herrmann

Be careful in any season. The medical care in the Villages is beyond atrocious.

I had a very good experience with excellent, skilled medical personnel at TVRH over Christmas when I was hospitalized for eight days in Critical Care.

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I had a very good experience with excellent, skilled medical personnel at TVRH over Christmas when I was hospitalized for eight days in Critical Care.

Your one good experience does not negate everyone else's experience. The Villages Hospital is not the best I have seen but it is all we have and we can only hope that they will work to improve it.

[SandiG]

Yes

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by fw102807

Your one good experience does not negate everyone else's experience. The Villages Hospital is not the best I have seen but it is all we have and we can only hope that they will work to improve it.

I realize that. I have visited two friends in Critical Care and they were well taken care of. Our grandson visited the ER with an Asthma attack and he was seen at once. I try to dispel rumors and stop unnecessary negativity.

I don't think TVRH is the best hospital in the world, it isn't a teaching hospital attached to a large medical school, but it is more than adequate. I would counsel anyone with cancer or serious and involved problems to go to where the best medical help is available. But that would be my advice, period. I was the on call parent for many years for new parents whose children were born with Williams Syndrome. Their heart issues are so involved it is imperative they seek treatment at large hospitals that have treated many cases of Supravalvar Aortic Stenosis. OR the child could die during surgery.

I am a positive person by nature and I do get very annoyed with mistruths or half truths or people not reporting things accurately.

I had a collapsed lung when my pacemaker was inserted last month, a rare risk, but a known risk that I was told about ahead of time. I cannot lie flat, I have Scoliosis. My lung was nicked. It was then reinflated and I am still here. Perhaps it would not have happened at the Cleveland Clinic, but I was here when my heart lost it's rhythm and was beating dangerously slow. Here the pacemaker was inserted and my lung was re-inflated and I am still kickin'.

[billethkid]

Our personal experiences with TVRH is one has to separate ER performance deficit and lack of patient priority from the admitted patient side of their business.

For scheduled surgery, procedures and admissions we have no complaints. Managed and run as well as some of the best we have been to over the years.

What I have yet to see on TOTV is how a truly life threatening emergency has been handled at TVRH. As per usual, all we hear about is the "bad".

[Happyhippo]

Very true. Just found out my 10 year old grandson has the flu along with many other children in his school. It’s a private school so I’m hoping they close for a few days. ( replying to aletarw)

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I don't think TVRH is the best hospital in the world, it isn't a teaching hospital attached to a large medical school, but it is more than adequate. I would counsel anyone with cancer or serious and involved problems to go to where the best medical help is available.

I had a collapsed lung when my pacemaker was inserted last month, a rare risk, but a known risk that I was told about ahead of time. I cannot lie flat, I have Scoliosis. My lung was nicked. It was then reinflated and I am still here. Perhaps it would not have happened at the Cleveland Clinic, but I was here when my heart lost it's rhythm and was beating dangerously slow. Here the pacemaker was inserted and my lung was re-inflated and I am still kickin'.

Statistically speaking I agree with the latter bolded statement but not with the former.

It seems to me that the medical community has been unable to adequately keep up with the rapid growth of housing development and hence the number of elderly folks in residence, and understandably so.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Gail herrmann

Be careful in any season. The medical care in the Villages is beyond atrocious.

Is that your "expert" opinion. Please share with us where you went to medical school, where you did your residency, The length and nature of your inpatient and outpatient experience, and the basis for concluding the care is "beyond atrocious".

I won't hold my breath waiting for a reply, I'll just answer for you:

Nowhere, nowhere, none, and none.

[Bonny]

Originally Posted by Gail herrmann

Be careful in any season. The medical care in the Villages is beyond atrocious.

What were your personal experiences to say this?
We have lived here 18 years. I have been admitted to the Villages Hospital several times. Twice last month. Always had great care and I love all of my Doctors I have in the Villages.