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| - This is only for this visit. The ER doctor was exceedingly rude and condescending and did zero but charged my insurance $2,000! I will return and add his name as he shouldn't even be a doctor! Vegas will take anybody! I simply asked to speak to the doctor and he was pissed that he actually had to lower himself to talk to me. He literally came in the room and said, "What do you want?" After I bitched him out about his lack of bedside manner, (To which he rolled his eyes), I explained my son's complicated medical issues with him at the urgency of the medical student (I despise teaching hospitals). They wanted to do an angiogram on a 20 year old so YES, you SOB, I have some questions! I demanded a heart workup first because I didn't think an angiogram was necessary. Guess what folks? Mama Bear was right on target. I suppose this quack needed a new boat or was behind on his alimony and child support. A cardiac calcium test is $100 and they refuse to do it! Angiogram is over $25,000 not including doctor fees and extras. The doctor needs to be reported to the medical board.
I took my son to the ER with chest pains. He has a heart problem and his pills weren't working. He also has migraines and epilepsy. I had to pull an Aurora Greenway to get ER staff off their asses and get him into triage! He fell down 3 times walking into the ER because they couldn't locate a wheel chair!
Thanks to my great insurance, they admitted my son immediately and did a heart work up which took 2 days and during that time my father died in a Houston hospital. It was stressful to say the least.
There are no private rooms at Valley! My son had to share a room with a 90 year old Alzheimer's/heart patient who couldn't remember that the nurse gave him a sleeping pill. Therefore, he screamed for sleeping pills for hours. He was definitely hard of hearing and annoying as hell. Nurses made us go home! We couldn't stay with my son overnight. The room was smaller than my bathroom at home! So small that my son's bed covered half the bathroom door!
The nurses were nice and fawned all over him because they said they don't have patients under 80 normally with heart problems. I thought it was strange that they are all traveling nurses though but that seems to be the case in all Vegas hospitals since 2007. All the nurses are from Texas so we discussed the merits of sweet tea in Vegas. There are none.
The doctor called me on the phone and we discussed my son's health issues and he agreed that Vegas doctors are not equipped with the proper skills to help him. He agreed with me that he needs to go to the Mayo Clinic, Cedars Sinai or UCLA. He was somewhat intelligent compared to other doctors I've had to deal with. At least he was civil and listened.
Two days later they released my son and charged $28,000 to my insurance. Nothing was fixed or cured. As usual, the saying and conventional wisdom holds true, "If you need good medical care in Vegas, head to the airport and go to Los Angeles! They actually have decent doctors and hospitals! Vegas does NOT!"
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