Emily Dowling Review of Banner Good Samaritan
Do not bring your infants here, they will kill the...
Do not bring your infants here, they will kill them.
I brought my 7 month old son into the Banner University ER, he was unresponsive, vomiting profusely, pale in color, and screaming in pain every 20 minutes. When my son would vomit he would stop breathing - when this happened I looked at my husband and said, "what do I do?" And the triage nurse responded, "what do you mean 'what do you do?' Youre the mom. You're supposed to know" as I was holding my sons limp body, gasping for air.
The medical staff did not exam my son at all. They were presented with a shreiking, limp, heaving, and colorless baby and concluded without any exam or bloodwork that it was a stomach bug and to give him pedialyte. Without checking his glucose they brought in an inept IV proctor to give him fluids. I declined and asked to be discharged so we could go to Phoenix Childrens Hospital they responded that it would be pointless as we would just sit and wait as we had been there.
After 4 hours of no examinations, no bloodwork, and no improvement they reluctantly transferred us to Phoenix childrens where he was immediately diagnosed with intussusception - a life ending illness if not properly addressed within 48 hours. After a simple Google search of my sons symptoms they were textbook - and the doctors, nurses and staff of Banner University Medical Center are incompetent.
They advised us to force feed him fluids and wait it out. Had we followed their instructions, my son would be dead.
Do not bring your babies here.
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