Arnold van der Dijs

Review of Largo Medical Center

Simply HORRIBLE!!!

Simply HORRIBLE!!!
Came in to ER some time before 7am on 01/04/2021 with extreme pain caused by kidney stones. I got in and they worked rapidly and diligently to calm my pain and discomfort. Once they controlled the pain, they took me out of the room and placed my bed on the walkway where everybody walked from outside. Paramedics came in with an elderly woman and placed her few feet from me, discussing possible covid-19 infection. There where several rooms unoccupied and cleaned ready, as far as I could see and on my eyes I could not comprehend that they would choose to put me on that kind of risk for no reason at all other than laziness or incompetence.
I could not understand that if ER was getting so busy on that they, there was not a protocol in place to protect regular ER patients from the spread of covid-19.
I was so disgusted and tried to walk away from ER to protect myself, but I was stopped at the door due the IV set up in my arm.
I had to argue to make my point across and literally I was placed in a protected and separated room in about 5 seconds after.
They need better guidance and a protocol in place to run this places. God help us all...