Jay P

Review of Hunterdon Healthcare

ER visit with left lower back and left lower flank...

ER visit with left lower back and left lower flank. Extremely painfull (10/10 pain scale). As soon as I walked in... i was told to see someone.
i gave my info the best i can...they rushed me to the bio stat folks who were very quick and sympathaetic to my pain... they rushed me to see the doctor.
the first doctor was a PA who asked me more questions...and told me they would be giving me pain med. the first nurse saw me 5 min after and hooked me up with pain meds. the pain med was ok...after 20 min, the pain worsened...after telling them that...5 min later they changed my pain med and gave me a shot...it immediately got better but not enough...i complained again..and this time the ER MD came by and gave up'ed my dosage to the same pain med...and that worked...
not sure what happened there... but at the same time, he ordered a CT scan that showed a kidney stone...
so in the end...this place doesn't look too busy which means you'll be seen quickly, the staff is really nice and caring...but not sure why the pain meds did not work right away... maybe because of low dosage??? some doctors like to work like that.. they don't want to give alot of pain meds right away...???
so that is why i give this place a 4 and not a 5.