shelly sussman

Review of Brotman Medical Center

My son was admitted with cellulitis in his foot. H...

My son was admitted with cellulitis in his foot. He s been a diabetic for 28 years. The attending Dr. Schwarz came in one time to see him and then sent his PA for the rest of the stay. The PA was stupid not empathetic and basically did nothing. She never looked at his chart, didn t even know he was diabetic. Asked him how his uti was!?!?
The infectious disease Dr. Liu was very good. Very responsive to my sons needs and very informative as to how to go forward in controlling the diabetes to .prevent future issues. The nurses were very nice too. however throughout his entire stay his blood pressure was very very high and was really never addressed and neither were his high blood sugars. They discharged him without home healthcare telling him that he would need one week of very strong antibiotic IV minimum possibly two.
No one looked for the source of the cellulitis until the day he was discharged. Dr. Liu s assistant came in and said let me check your feet. This is something all diabetics should do every day and certainly in a hospital everyone should be aware of that. But that never happened till the last day. At which point she recommended antifungal cream. And that was not administered to him by the nurses. Once he was discharged we had to make several phone calls to get the home health care and a prescription for the antifungal. there is no one that will see him at the end of this week of heavy duty antibiotics to tell us if the cellulitis is Gone. My son is missing work and jeopardizing his job and spends the day calling the hospital for help for a job not finished and not very well done.
there was no home health for 36 hours and as we all know antibiotics have to be taken in a timely fashion to be affective.
It seems like nobody knows what s going on there and their agenda is not necessarily to cure people but to process them and get them out.