Hello;
After finding dried blood on Neurology exam table on July 3, I am done using MU's hospital and clinics.
Here's what happened:
Went up there for a 3pm appointment for a couple skin biopsies. Had a driver from Hometown Homecare in -------- with me because my health no longer allows me to drive that far.
Got back in the exam room, procedure room, whatever the correct term for it is.
A gal came in with the required tools and supplies and got them opened and arranged.
Then she and the gal from Hometown Homecare stepped out.
I got my clothes changed.
Sat down on the side of the exam table.
Reached down and pulled out the footrest/legrest extension.
That's kind of interesting, a pair of palm-sized red smears.
And I'll be it ain't lipstick.
So I got dressed, opened the door, asked for someone official to come look.
The gal who had laid out the tools came in and looked.
Then she went and got the RN.
In a few minutes the RN came in.
We talked.
Somewhere during that time the dried blood was cleaned off by the gal who was the one who had prepared the tools and instruments.
And comment was made that the person who cleaned the rooms was not aware of the sliding portion.
Uhh, say what?
(and then I wonder if the pocket the sliding portion is retained in under the exam table surface has a top which rubbed against the blood on the sliding portion)
During all the goings on I decided that I'm done doing business with and getting health care from University Hospital and clinics.
Done.
Just plain done.
I'm done making appointments.
I'm done making bill payments.
RN asked if I wished to talk to the Doctor.
Nope, I'm done here.
Add the above to some months back, maybe even last year, when an attending physician came in and without preamble or warning began taking the reflex hammer and rapidly hitting, emphasis on the hitting, my various joints while rapid firing questions and demands for information.
Umm, excuse me, you DO NOT do that kind of thing to someone who has told you on their medical history that they have autism and PTSD.
So, yes, my experience with University Hospital Neurology has soured me on the whole institution.
Which is kind of sad, because my parents went to MU in the 1950s and met there, and worked in what was the hospital at that time, Dad as an orderly while he was doing Navy ROTC and Mom in the kitchen while getting her degree as a Nutritionist.
As for me, way back in 19------ I almost made it through LPN school in -------, at what was then the ------------- School of Practical Nursing; plus, before that I had worked in housekeeping department a couple summers at a hotel on the -------------- in -----------. So, I'm not ignorant of what's involved here.
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