Jessica Puglove Review of Shands at UF
Horrific experience. I was dehumanized and left to...
Horrific experience. I was dehumanized and left to suffer for hours without one doctor or nurse looking at me. I got to the hospital at 1:30 am due to a swelling hematoma in my thigh, and only one doctor ever looked at me and that was around 6 AM. When he finally did decide to talk to me, he treated me with disrespect and left me in tears. Due to me giving him "sass" he decided I wasn't worthy of pain medication and left me to suffer without it until 8:30 AM. And while he walked away from me he gave me a smug look as if to say "I have all the power, what can you do?" The one nurse who saw me prior to 8:30 AM gave me basic ibuprofen and made sure to tell me that "There is no pain medication in this just so you are aware." And told me to put the lidocaine on my hematoma myself. I cried periodically for several hours straight and was in excruciating pain and was met with no empathy or human kindness. Due to my horrific experience I have to head home and drive 5 hours myself with a swelling hematoma in order to go to my hospital back home. I refuse to go to Shands ER ever again, I honestly would rather cut open my hematoma myself and bleed out on the street like a dog than be treated how that doctor and nurse treated me. Lab rats meant for vivisection are treated better than I was treated at Shands. Never go here.

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