Health: I did need the spinal tap as well as the drainage. I also should have been flat on back for four hours. One dr I wanted to switch to said he diesn’t treat my condition because he isn’t set up for the spinal taps, he doesn’t have room in his office to keep patients flat for four hours.
My issue isn’t with students learning, I’ve been poked so many times by students trying to find veins to draw blood that my arms and hands werre bruised but I them I didn’t mind. I even volunteered to have med students at a local med school examine my eyes bec I’ve had it done so many times that I know how to focus and not move or blink and my eyes are often dilated so it’s easy to see everything. My issue is with a student performing something for the first time without supervision. Yes I blam Maimonodies because of how horrified my drs at other hospitals were when I said how I was treated. They have different protocols which center around the patient not the med student.
Yes the two hopitals in Flatbush are below average, yet suprisingly they have great nursing/patient care. Maimonodies doesn’t have good medical care or nursing/patient. I was in the ER at Maimonodies twice and told by more than one doctor that there is nothing they can do because I wasn’t having a stroke so they can’t page my dr or any dr or resident in the neurology dept. If that is considered average care then i’ll pass and move straight to above average. When I called my dr at Columbia on a saturday night he called back in minutes and called in a prescription for me. I gave him numbers od pharmacies that I thought were open, he called all four until he found one that was open. He couldn’t understand why I thanked him so much because he was only doing his job.