I live in western MA. My husband’s cardiologist is in Boston. He had an incident and local ambulance took him to local hospital...(Baystate).
After 24 hours in emergency room he essentially left. This is the hospital that did a quadruple bypass a few years ago. All the bypasses failed within 2 weeks. And they never told him. Just treated him like an old man who was complaining too much.
Anyway, the ambulance took him there the other night. The next day he came home. His Boston cardiologist told him to come right away and they would try putting in a stent. Great! BUT that is when the nightmare began. Not one ambulance would take him from home to Boston hospital. Not one. Even when we said we would pay the bill ourselves. Some one told us that if he was at an urgent care clinic that they would call an ambulance. Big fiasco. They did an ekg...said he was having a heart problem and that he had to go back to Baystate, spend the day being evaluated and maybe they would call an ambulance to take him to Boston.
John left the clinic with hysterical staff telling him he could die due to his refusal to go to the local hospital which had almost killed him several times. We came home. A friend came, drove John to Boston in record time and he is there now. He has a team of doctors analyzing his situation. He is alive and in the hands of competent doctors. But, can you imagine, no way we could get any ambulance to transport him. That drama almost killed us both!
After 24 hours in emergency room he essentially left. This is the hospital that did a quadruple bypass a few years ago. All the bypasses failed within 2 weeks. And they never told him. Just treated him like an old man who was complaining too much.
Anyway, the ambulance took him there the other night. The next day he came home. His Boston cardiologist told him to come right away and they would try putting in a stent. Great! BUT that is when the nightmare began. Not one ambulance would take him from home to Boston hospital. Not one. Even when we said we would pay the bill ourselves. Some one told us that if he was at an urgent care clinic that they would call an ambulance. Big fiasco. They did an ekg...said he was having a heart problem and that he had to go back to Baystate, spend the day being evaluated and maybe they would call an ambulance to take him to Boston.
John left the clinic with hysterical staff telling him he could die due to his refusal to go to the local hospital which had almost killed him several times. We came home. A friend came, drove John to Boston in record time and he is there now. He has a team of doctors analyzing his situation. He is alive and in the hands of competent doctors. But, can you imagine, no way we could get any ambulance to transport him. That drama almost killed us both!
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