Cornell. The doctors and staff are professional and put the patient’s needs and feelings first. I had the same surgery done twice once in Maimonodies and once in Cornell. There was no comparison. The preop routine was horrible at Maimonodies and they rushed me out of the recovery room before I felt ready. Cornell’s preop routine included more joking with and just being friendly to the patients. They came around every five minutes with blankets fresh out of the warmer asking if anyone wanted one. I was not connected to IV until I was in the OR so the orderly who came to bring me to the OR walked with me and we had a nice friendly conversation. I didn’t even realize that the door he knocked on and told the staff that their patient was there was the OR! In maimonodies I was on a put on a gerney and pushed into a public elevator to go to the OR! Cornell gave pajamas and a surgical gown to wear on top. I felt dressed not like the hospital gown Maimonodies gave me which barely covered. The post op experience at Cornell was compeltly different as well. They weren’t ready to discharge me and kept on sitting at my bedside and joking with me as I got moved from recovery room to recovery room because I was an ambulatory surgical patient and the recovery rooms were closing for the night but they weren’t willing to discharge me and my insurance would pay for me to be admitted. It was a very pleasant experience. When I had to page the doctor on call during the night and he was in the OR the paging center told me he was in the OR but if I don’t hear from him in 20 minutes I should call back. (he called in five minutes and had me on speaker as he was operating)In Maimonodies I was unable to get a doctor or resident on the phone after hours or on weekends.
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