Hilarie Hardman

Review of Mountain West Medical Center

I went to the ER with abdominal pain 10 days after...

I went to the ER with abdominal pain 10 days after having a baby (not at this hospital, thank goodness). Because of where the pain was, they said they wanted to remove my gall bladder because that is a common problem with women who have been pregnant or have had babies and because that s where your gall bladder is. True, yes, most of the time anyway. I guess they forgot that after having a baby, EVERYTHING in your abdomen is there. Anyway, they still wanted to take it out even after all the tests they did on my gall bladder said there was nothing wrong with it. My husband decided we were going for a 2nd opinion and we went into Salt Lake where we found out that it wasn t my gall bladder at all. It was my appendix...and in the 30 hours I spent at MWMC with them deciding that they were going to take out my gall bladder, it had ruptured so severely that the other surgeon had to take out part of my large intestine as well because it was so abscessed. So instead of my appendectomy being a 20 minute procedure, it took 1 1/2 hours and I still spent 4 days in the hospital, a month on crazy antibiotics, and 3 weeks with a drain hanging out of my belly. And like so many of the other complaints here, the bill I got from MWMC was slightly less than the hospital that actually did the surgery and post-surgical care.