Sage

It's kinda like when you were a kid and knew your parents were watching- you'd act all nice and sweet and polite. But as soon as their backs were turned, you'd shove some kid down and make him eat dirt because he took the toy you were playing with. At the hospital I worked at, they were all proud and parading around all the awards they got- while having the most utterly incompitent and uninterested Lab staff and the most unprofessional nurses ever. I have told my husband that unless it's a life or death situation I do not want to be taken to the hospital that I used to work for.

Honestly, I'd say find someone who works in a core area in the hospital, like the Lab, and ask THEM their opnion of the hospital and its care. I knew all the dirty little secrets of the hospital that JCAHO never saw and the public never knew about. I don't mean to scare you away from hospitals or anything, just know that you really never know what's going on behind the scenes of a large corporation (and they are corporations) like a hospital.

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