ryan schiavo

Review of Good Samaritan Medical Center

I will NEVER go to this hospital again. I have nev...

I will NEVER go to this hospital again. I have never felt so concerned with the care I received. I worked with a RN and Dr. Tiffany Mccalla. It was clear the two of them did not agree on how to take care of me. They had to stick me 3 times to get an IV in. The Dr basically pushed the nurse out of the way to take over. The RN said I don t know why she did this to your arm to me. The RN rolled her eyes as the doctor was talking to me. I did not feel like I was getting the proper care needed. Every time the doctor walked into the room it was like she had no idea what was going on. I was told to provide a urine sample for testing by the RN and told to place it on the counter in my room for testing. They never took the sample and never tested it. I was there a total of 3.5 hours and discharged. The doctor verbatim said I don t know what s wrong with you. Everything seems fine. How unbelievable is this? She didn t seem to care, she didn t seem concerned, what she was saying made zero sense to me. She was providing little to no detail about what s wrong. Then they were supposed to send over 2 different medications to my pharmacy. My girlfriend picked them up for me when she got out of work as I was and still am extremely weak. I call the pharmacy and they say they only received 1 of the medications. I call the hospital, transferred a few times and talk to a man around 6pm who was the charge nurse. He apologized and said he printed out my chart and was walking to the doctors to have it fixed. I call the pharmacy an hour later and they tell me they received nothing. I call back to the hospital and talk to another person who says I either need to check back in a while because they don t know my doctors schedule or come down again. I said that was ridiculous and I was placed on hold for 20 min. When she returns she said that another doctor can t write the script and there s nothing they can do. They transfer me to another charge nurse who said she just got in and has nothing to do with it and doesn't know what s going on but that they can not and will not give me the prescription needed. She said she doesn't know when the other doctor will work again and there s nothing they can do. She said I can call back tomorrow and speak with the clinical director and voice my concerns then. How unreal is this? I ask if there is any anything at all I can buy as a substitute for what was being prescribed and she said no nothing. I received poor care, I did not feel comfortable leaving the hospital, I was provided with no assurance that I was okay, and the medical they perceived never even went to the pharmacy and since they can t find or know when the doctor will be back there s nothing they can do. This is unreal and I will NEVER trust this hospital or anyone that works in it again. To top it all off I ll probably get a $20,000 medical bill for medical care that I think was provided by a third world country.