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Mar 7, 2008 by dennis from bishop
Overall Rating: 1

• Leaving the hospital.
• Noncaring attitude by ER personnel .

“Our son lives in Tahoe and has health issues and the ER in the hospital is terrible. So we've been hearing from him for years about how bad it is. Then I had the 'misfortune' of finding out firsthand. My wife had a few gallbladder attacks the previous month and was scheduled for surgery in a couple of weeks. When we went to Tahoe to visit our family, I had to take my wife in to the ER because of a Gallbladder attack. They had her sit in the waiting room for almost a hour before getting her back in to see someone, she was screaming in pain, and she has a high threshold for pain. She had to wait to sign in while another person, that did come in before her with a broken finger while he was outside smoking a cigarette. After finally getting her into the ER to be examined, they didn't give her pain meds for another hour. The doctors there in Tahoe could not decide exactly what was wrong and I kept telling them it was her gallbladder. I called our doctor at home and he said to get her back to Bishop immediately, so I took her out against doctors advice. It's a good thing I did, because when we got home and to our hospital they said it was pretty serious. her gallbladder was so inflamed they had to giver her antibiotics before taking it out the next day. If we would have stayed at Barton, who knows what would have happened. Do not go there unless there is no other choice.”

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