09-14-2008, 10:07 AM
Waimea has a wonderful hospital.
Hilo Medical Center can be competent or it can be kind of like being dropkicked into a scene from the Inferno.
In my small experience of it there has each time been a couple people who were tweaking and disrupting stuff, screaming at doctors, having to be restrained, patients from the jail escorted by police, patients being treated prior to going to jail ... arghh.
I went in once and the only seat was between an officer and his prisoner. Why they didn't move over and sit by each other, I was baffled ...
It's just lovely when you're hooked up to an IV, can't move, and someone goes berserk so that no one is left to answer a call button from any other patient. Saw that, it lasted 20 minutes or more.
The atmosphere in Waimea is civilized, organized, caring.
I talked to an admit person at Waimea who is a local girl born and raised Hilo and said she wouldn't go to that hospital. "They lack compassion" were her words. While I've no doubt there are compassionate people at Hilo, the whole system is overstrained, and I would say that as an overall institution, it does lack compassion, because there is no time or manpower to look at the big picture for the patient -- even a simple thing like proper discharge instructions.
The failure to diagnose after an auto accident, that shocks even me.
I am so sorry.
Hilo Medical Center can be competent or it can be kind of like being dropkicked into a scene from the Inferno.
In my small experience of it there has each time been a couple people who were tweaking and disrupting stuff, screaming at doctors, having to be restrained, patients from the jail escorted by police, patients being treated prior to going to jail ... arghh.
I went in once and the only seat was between an officer and his prisoner. Why they didn't move over and sit by each other, I was baffled ...
It's just lovely when you're hooked up to an IV, can't move, and someone goes berserk so that no one is left to answer a call button from any other patient. Saw that, it lasted 20 minutes or more.
The atmosphere in Waimea is civilized, organized, caring.
I talked to an admit person at Waimea who is a local girl born and raised Hilo and said she wouldn't go to that hospital. "They lack compassion" were her words. While I've no doubt there are compassionate people at Hilo, the whole system is overstrained, and I would say that as an overall institution, it does lack compassion, because there is no time or manpower to look at the big picture for the patient -- even a simple thing like proper discharge instructions.
The failure to diagnose after an auto accident, that shocks even me.
I am so sorry.