Rupa Bose

Review of Shands at UF

A gentleman next to us had a serious stroke and wa...

A gentleman next to us had a serious stroke and was waiting in the ER waiting room for several hours--he could have had another while sitting there. My sister had a clearly septic infection and was told to sit and wait--and I was told that if she passed out that I needed to just keep her sitting. The staff do NOT care at all about the patients/people. They just brush off concerns as if they are completely irrelevant and unimportant. Anywhere else, a complaint of chest pain would at least get a nurse out there to check it out; a man with a stroke that has resulted in loss of mobility in one side of his body would certainly be seen--in less than 4 hours (and counting). UF Health is a great teaching hospital, but the ER may not be the place to go when actually seriously sick. They just don't seem to care.