David Kaiser

Review of Stanford Medical Center

Don't let them fool you: they are a research hospi...

Don't let them fool you: they are a research hospital and patients come third. First: the MD's--who are "inventing the future," an actual quote, and thus too busy to see a patient in less than 8 weeks who is facing open heart surgery or death (my situation). Second: the "nurse ratchets" and other apparatchiks with whom mere mortals actually communicate. And third: you... or your mother with Alzheimer's... or your daughter with a fever and diarrhea--that might be potentially fatal C-Diff.

If you beg and scrape, they will lecture about how they are doing you a favor, how wonderful and important they are, and how they personally will go beyond the regular procedures procedures to try to help, but they "want you to remember it."