If there was an option for zero I d be pressing on...

If there was an option for zero I d be pressing on that. I had always heard so many great things about this hospital. When my surgeon asked me to go to their ED after having what I thought was a minor complication, I felt I was going to be in the right place. The ED staff was great and attentive from the doctors to the nurses. Everything went well while at the ED. I ended up having a major complication (bilateral pulmonary embolism) and my nightmare began once I was admitted. I was first taken to get a bunch of necessary imaging before I got to my room. After three hours of testing I finally arrived to my room in excruciating pain, hungry and thirsty. We asked the nurse for meds and to get some snacks and she said she had no orders and had put a call out to the hospitalist. Around the same time Dr. Ciment (pulmonologist) arrived at my room looking rushed and not saying much. To a certain degree he was kind of dismissive but I didn t really pay much attention at the time. An hour later I m still in pain and no food or water. The nurse had no clue as the hospitalist wasn t answering the calls. Finally another hospitalist comes in who works with my surgeon and he set everything up, listened to my concerns and had a plan to get a hematologist to come out and really worked to make me comfortable. That was short lived and I never got tot see him again. All of a sudden my treatment was changed and I was confused. A very rude phlebotomist walked in to get blood, acknowledged that I have really hard veins and instead of taking her time to look for the right option she stuck me by my wrist and hurt me to the point I screamed out loud. Instead of apologizing she was offended and left. The next morning the pulmonologist walks in letting me know he was sending me home. This is the second time I have a pulmonary embolism in less than two years and I was a little taken back at the fact he was so dismissive. He said my clots weren t huge and that I should be fine. A new hospitalist comes in with the same story. When I asked the pulmonologist for this so called hematologist that would come see me he said I could do all this outpatient. I hadn t even been admitted for 24 hours. I finally asked my nurse to put a call out to the hospitalist because I didn t feel comfortable going home as I was still feeling miserable and not only did he not bother to come but completely dismissed my concerns and sent me home. In their eyes I was stable yet my resting heart rate never came under 100 while I was admitted. Today I m writing this review from my room at Baptist. I had to be rushed by fire rescue as I got a sharp pain that literally took my breath away, my heart rate went up to 140 bpm and my body temperature dropped to 93 degrees. All related to the clots I still have in my body and the negligence of the doctors and the center. At one point the very dismissive pulmonologist said your clots are not even that big I am so sorry my lungs didn t blow up in front of you. I will have to stay as long as I need to here at Baptist as they obviously deemed I was way to high risk to be healing at home. This was not a flu. This is a complication that can be fatal and everyone knows that.