Sebastian Garcia

Review of Silver Lake Medical Center

Went in with my girlfriend around 2:30 for a bad c...

Went in with my girlfriend around 2:30 for a bad case of food poisoning, just got out at 8:50. She needed an IV and the RN proceeded to prick her and dig around in her vein four different times and still managed to mess up the IV. It wasn't until the lab technicians came in and successfully administered it on the first try. The doctor and the nurse aides are the only ones that are attentive to the patient, unfortunately they have to split themselves to attend ten other people at once. I get it, patients coming in with a bad heart condition are a priority over someone with a stomach bug, but you can only use that excuse so many times in the six hour delay. Once she got her prescription it took them an hour to discharge her. We would have just gotten up and left, but she still had the IV needle stuck without any medication connected to it. The last nurse asked us why we were there and we had to remind them multiple times that the needle was still stuck on her arm. Never again.