The Mainland Exodus

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Originally posted by Damon...I myself would take your personal opinion over a site like this...

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That's a nice thing for you to say, Damon, thank you.

I know there are websites that aren't much more than advertisements, but disguise themselves as "independant", but I didn't look at the one I cited beyond the superficial. I just posted the first one I came to on a Google search, seems to be an advertisement-type website, which wasn't too bright on my part. There is unbiased information out there about hospitals. If I were to make a project out of evaluating Hilo Hospital, and I'm not, I'd start looking at CDC records, National Institutes of Health, that kind of thing.

I have no axe to grind at all about Hilo's Hospital, one way or the other. Whenever I move across the pond, it'll be the medical facility I get to go to, whether I like it or not, most likely. I'm not affluent enough to fly around whenever I get sick, or even afford health insurance much beyond an HMO.

Not that you're grinding an axe, Damon, you must have lots more information than my one (pleasant) visit. Here where I live, there are some small-town hospitals in the outlying communities that basically are just that: small-town hospitals. They provide the treatment you'd expect from a small-town hospital. Sounds like Hilo Hospital is of that variety of medical facility.

<edit> Okay, just for anybody's curiosity, here's a Dept. of Health and Human Services website to compare hospitals. I hope it would be unbiased, but you never know. Search for Hilo, and you can check the data out yourself.

Aloha! ;-)