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Review of Mercy Gilbert Medical Center

I was at the ER at mercy on Friday evening. I even...

I was at the ER at mercy on Friday evening. I eventually found out that my issue was Diverticulitis.
I was in a ton of pain when I got there. The only thing that Mercy did right was getting me a bag to throw up into. There was one other person in the ER when I arrived. This lady I believe has gotten pure chlorine in her eye and it was obviously burning and painful. The little greeter at the front door appeared to have two jobs, 1st and obviously most important was to be sure that no one had family checking on them, 2nd was to tell the patients that there was no way to determine how long one might have to wait with chemicals burning her eyes out and to prove that he did not care at all. I don t know how severe pure chlorine is to someone s vision, I assume it s pretty bad. Probably a good idea to flush with water ASAP. Mercy didn t appear to share this same idea as this lady was scolded for asking how long she should wait and told there was no way to know. She left and I hope the best for her.
I eventually left as well. While it seemed that the wait should be short as there was one other person in the waiting room, (no, not the lady that was to have her eyes burned out by chemicals, she was already gone). I left because I had too much pain to wait.
Mercy seems to spend a lot on advertising but won t spend on doctors and nurses. This may be wrong, maybe they had enough. Maybe there were 100 s of patients in the ER prior to me showing up at 8:00 pm. And maybe all of these people walked to the ER as the parking lot was empty.
Maybe a good idea to staff up a little with additional nurses to do things like flushing people s eyes, maybe getting a child in a bed that has a broken leg.
This visit showed me how poorly a hospital can treat people.