ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL
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The several times over the past 10 years I've used St. Mary's hospital, have had zero problems with the way doctors, nurses, techs and other personnel have treated me. The Billing Department...
itsbob
I bowl overhand
You have to understand what hospitals are dealing with, they have to be all about the money to keep their doors open.. Biden wants to make medical care affordable, and the way he is doing it is making hospitals and pharmacies soak up the cost (loss) of items. He just got his hand slapped for illegally making hospitals and pharmacies soak up 1.6 BILLION in losses, so the prescriptions for patients could be affordable. FOR EXAMPLE: a bag of Saline cost the hospital $45, but per Biden's order they can't charge more than $15, and the government won't reimburse the difference, they just have to soak up the loss, and find another way to get back the $30 JUST to break even, doesn't even account for TRYING to make a profit.
Hospitals can't operate at a loss and keep their doors open, so what do they have to do??
itsbob
I bowl overhand
What I found at the St Mary's hospital, I have 2 perspectives. Compared to Calvert, St Mary's was the one that actually listened to my daughter, and treated her correctly, Calvert treated like a drug addict seeking drugs (at 12 years old).
And my complaints really aren't the hospitals fault, but when you have an emergency, you're in pain, you calm yourself saying, ER and relief are only XX amount of minutes away, I'll be alright.. Then you get there, they look at you, and say, Understand you are in pain, but the ER doesn't have morphine or Dilaudid.. HELL if the ER doesn't have it, who does?? Would have been better off going to GMR and asking.
The original Dr I had was not empathetic at all, and caused me a LOT more pain then the table saw did, while telling me we have nothing for your pain.. thankfully she got tired of my screams and sent in a PA, that did an exponentially better and mostly pain free job.
And my complaints really aren't the hospitals fault, but when you have an emergency, you're in pain, you calm yourself saying, ER and relief are only XX amount of minutes away, I'll be alright.. Then you get there, they look at you, and say, Understand you are in pain, but the ER doesn't have morphine or Dilaudid.. HELL if the ER doesn't have it, who does?? Would have been better off going to GMR and asking.
The original Dr I had was not empathetic at all, and caused me a LOT more pain then the table saw did, while telling me we have nothing for your pain.. thankfully she got tired of my screams and sent in a PA, that did an exponentially better and mostly pain free job.
^When I was in on 23 April 2015, my PCP and his supervisor determined that St. Mary's had neither the expertise or equipment needed to diagnose what was going on with me. They got me up the road to the Uni MD med center in Baltimore. End result was the Stage IB pancreatic cancer diagnosis on 14 May. Have been cancer free since the surgery on 2 June 2015.
They gave me morphine. Twice. It didn't even ease my pain.
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Funny the different rules ERs have. At St. Mary's they wouldn't give me any pain meds until after I was admitted and had a room.
When I was in the ER in NY, the doc kept asking if I wanted something for the pain. I finally said yes, and he gave me so much Dilaudid I couldn't see straight. Didn't wear off for about 6 hours.
When I was in the ER in NY, the doc kept asking if I wanted something for the pain. I finally said yes, and he gave me so much Dilaudid I couldn't see straight. Didn't wear off for about 6 hours.
Odd. I was never admitted but after watching me in so much pain, maybe they took pity on me.
itsbob
I bowl overhand
The ER doctor at St Mary's treated my daughter like this.. he listened, believed her and told her, "Relax, we have more drugs than you have pain", and we could see the stress and anxiety leave her body that very second. She was diagnosed that same day with Pancreatitits (at 12).. and they took great care of her..
And he found out Dilaudid was the only thing that even touched the pain.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
One thing mentioned earlier about doctors and rounds. The last couple decades medicine has moved away from that. I'm not sure why, I'd imagine some is insurance driven, but it's rare now four "your" doctor to see you in the hospital. What they now have are doctors employed by or contracted to the hospital (like the ER ones at Calvert Memorial......excuse me, Calvert Health Systems, I don't want to make anyone feel bad calling it Calvert Memorial) as Hospitalists.
That sounds like you had Dr Perraut, he took over Dr Szkotnicki’s practice when he retired.
I can understand that doctors are very busy with their practices, but it's pretty frightening that a cardiologist that has been tweaking your meds for months to control your very specific set of symptoms doesn't even have a say in them changing your meds around like you're in some clinical trial for the latest drugs the FDA has approved to treat some of your symptoms. Call me old school, but I like hospital staff to follow my doctor's treatment regimen and not throw a whole bunch of new and different medications my way.
Mommy Dearest was admitted for pneumonia and a house doctor popped in and asked, "How's that old heart doing today?" I suppose he couldn't even to be bothered to read the damned chart for 2 seconds. /rant
wittykitty
Active Member
Who was your surgeon, if I may ?
A petit oriental lady...I don't have her name handy.
Each time I have been in St. Mary's Hospital, the past 7 1/2 years, my PCP, Dr. Maunank M. Patel, has been in to see me.
When I was in for 10 days last February for the bleeding ulcers, he was my attending physician.
He is very attentive to his patients who are in need of help. He actually listens to, AND hears, what you are saying.
He is also kind of cute, in that, he gets embarrassed when you thank him.
3CATSAILOR
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I forgot to mention when my Sister in Law was at SMH, in the ER, they came back and said well, your pancreas is fine, gull bladder is fine, etc. She replied, my gull bladder was removed years ago. How could it be fine? They had a blank look with little response.
3CATSAILOR
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As I mentioned, more and more believe it is worse.
Clem72
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Kind of ridiculous that a bag of salt-water costs $45 though. Maybe part of the issue has been that the hospital has had zero incentive to seek the best price for their equipment/supplies knowing that it's always paid for eventually.
How do you think they came up with that $15 cap? They probably went out and looked for what THEY could buy salene for and then said "well crap, if I can buy it for $15 why can't the hospital", forgetting that the hospital buys exclusively from the CEO/Founders cousin's company who buys those $15 bags and sells them on for $45 after "cerifying" that they are up to the hospitals standards.