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My father was hospitalized here and now 3 years la...

My father was hospitalized here and now 3 years later I can not even drive by this disgraceful death hotel. Now, it's a 5-star hotel for sure but like the Hotel California you can check in anytime .. but you can never leave. I flew in after my father had a heart attach. I was told he was brain dead/there was no brain activity. Now some 36 hours after the event while speaking to the sole doctor on the entire ICU who came for his daily 60 second visit advised me that there had been no cat scan and he simply assumed that there was no brain activity because it was ''not typical.'' I demanded he be seen by a neurologist. The neurologist came the following day..about 18 hours later insisting he had just been called. He later said that there was no indication that there was any permanent loss of brain activity. ( Initially a resident came to read the cat scan and started by saying ''I don't really know how to read a cat scan so I'll do my best.'' At least there were residents..and nurses..there was one lone doctor who was about as present as Santa Claus in the ward. Let me tell you nothing like the hospital shows you see on TV. Nobody giving a damn.)
We were told that still with brain activity there was nothing that the hospital could do aside from a very experimental treatment could be performed the following day. The doctor however did not support this saying it was pointless so I called other hospitals to find one that would and agreed to accept his transfer. The doctor was very upset and called the hospital and tried to dissuade them from accepting him. Ultimately he said said something like ''it's up to you, you'll pay for the ambulance to take him there.'' Unfortunately my father developed a hospital born bacterial infection which caused his liver and kidneys to begin to shut down over that night before the transfer could happen. ''Clergy people'' of various faiths all came to tell us how ok is to die and had absolutely none of the beliefs of traditional clergy of any or almost any of the faiths they represented. My father was later removed from life support. The hospital brought a basket with chips and soda while he was dying as if we were at a movie theater. The hospital had lied and said that we had a choice to make - if we did not remove him from life support at that point they would permanently install the life support device in him and it could never be removed meaning he could live in a vegetative state for decades, the rest of his natural lives. We later found at that the timeline they provided us to make this decision was incorrect and much rushed. As far as I am concerned Franklin Square had an active part in assuring my father's death and there was a pro-death culture there. The clergy supported it, the doctors and nurse made 60 something sound like a long life lived. If you have an option, any option to go somewhere else..do it.

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