When
I heard that [Mercy Hospital] in Springfield, Missouri was named the [sixth safest hospital] in the entire United States of America by [Consumer Reports],
I actually shuddered. For it is the very
same hospital where my first wife, Sam, couldn’t receive any medication while
having Vicki, our first daughter, on account of there being no doctor (let
alone her OB/GYN) around to order it.
It
is also the very same hospital where it was determined that the only thing
wrong with my right knee was arthritis, which was proven to be outrageously
untrue. In fact, after I had it x-rayed at
the other major hospital here in Springfield, the radiology tech asked me if I
had been in a bad automobile accident on account of how damaged my right knee
was.
Oh,
but wait—there’s more! For it is also
the very same hospital where my sister-in-law almost died from an infection
after having surgery, but in all fairness, it was one of the emergency doctors
there that finally recognized that “that” smell about her was rotting flesh.
Okay,
Springfield’s Mercy Hospital was still St. John’s in all three of those cases, and
I suppose it is possible that drastic changes in the quality of care could have
come with the name change. On the other
hand, it only took a score of 70 out of a hundred (I assume) to rank as the
sixth safest in the country, with the safest scoring a 72. Just makes you want to rush out and get a medical procedure
done—doesn’t it?
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2 comments:
The name certainly needed to be changed to 'mercy' as far as you and your family were concerned eh?
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Brenda!!! Indeed, and our other major hospital system is getting just as bad. In all fairness, however, I suspect that Cox's problems are more a result of not having enough good employees available in the area than with systemic failures.
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