If you enjoy having your catheter ripped out by pi...

If you enjoy having your catheter ripped out by pissy and ineffectual nurses, by all means come here for medical care! The 5-star reviewer is either an employee here or experienced a miracle.

My boyfriend's father was in a bad car wreck last weekend and had to be flown in via helicopter. He spent the better part of two days in ICU here, during which he was given drugs he is allergic to and told them not to give him resulting in him having hives and a manic rage attack. Instead of restraining him, they just yanked out his catheter (thank goodness the air bladder was delflated at the time) and let him run rampant.

It was like pulling teeth to get the names of who was responsible for what (like nurse, head nurse, doctor, etc). My BF's dad waited all night to get test results from a doctor who never came. Only after his allergic fit did he get put in a regular room and after many more hours a nurse came by to ask why he was still there since his test didnt show anything. WHY INDEED.

The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing here. The place is shabby and rundown, and the staff is either adversarial, nice but ineffectual, or simply indifferent, depending on floor, day, and mood. There are so many crackheads and other unsavory folks trying to get in that you have to run an obstacle course of security in order to visit your loved ones (unless you get Indifferent Officer who doesn't even notice you).

The ICU nurses turned one patient's TV all the way up and turned it around so that they could watch it from their station while the poor lady
moaned in pain. Nice!

In short: If you can hold on to that heart attack just a little longer, go to Piedmont.

P.S. This was in 2011, but I just saw that they took down my Yelp review.