I would rather travel to Orlando, Jax or Tampa. M...

I would rather travel to Orlando, Jax or Tampa. My only and last ER visit to Shands ended with me walking out. After the registering nurse beat the crap out of her computer, calling it sev. derogatory names, she very curtly decided my doctor was wrong, I didn't need to be in the ER and I needed to find a new doctor (this was the first person/impression I got). She was such an angry loon, I left and drove home.

I have seen sev. specialty docs at Shands and my primary (for now) is a UF doc. To sum up Shands in general. There are three types of tier 2 hospitals in Fla that specialize:

The Mayo - quick, pro active, efficient, everyone that works there shows compassion, tag line for the Mayo - "git er done"

The Moffitt - very compassionate, gentle, efficient, generally want to solve and fix, tag line for the Moffitt - "you're not leaving here, til we figure out what's wrong with you"

Shands - we're the best, we don't have to like you or be competent...because we're the best....test, test, run more test, as long as you have insurance...test, test, test. Did we say, we're the best? tag line - "if you have an out of pocket maximum, we'll help you meet it, then send you off to be someone else's problem to fix, we just need experience for our students...we didn't say we were going to fix you...Dugh!"

The most pretentious, patronizing, dismissive medical community in North Central Florida...and Florida in general. They need to change the name to UF and drop Shands altogether, because this Hospital is equivalent to going to a massage school for a massage or a beauty school for a hair cut - you already know going in, it's a crap shoot on what your experience will be, you just hope for the best. For all the money and freebies this school gets, for all the money home owners have to shell out to pay what UF doesn't, you'd think the powers that be would strive to set a precedent rather than give birth to arrogant, lazy, belittling medical professionals.