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Review of Southwestern Vermont Health Ca...

My wife arrived there by ambulance with acute back...

My wife arrived there by ambulance with acute back pain and muscle spasms. The pain was so severe should could not even walk. They took her in and administered drugs and then tried to x-ray her but she was in too much pain. After several hours they were able to get an x-ray and said they could not see anything wrong. She was given prescriptions for pain and muscle relaxer and sent home after 8 hours in emerg. During all this time, they did not believe the severity of her pain and even went so far as to infer that I was abusing her. They deduced that I was an "angry man" just by looking at my very normal facial expression. We moved on to Knoxville where she saw an Orthopaedic specialist who found that she has pinched nerves in her lower back due to mild disc bulging on 5 vertebrae. She was then given proper medical treatment and is now recovering. The Vermont facility should have seen this and treated it accordingly at the time.