Lawrence General Hospital

Reviews 7

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Alberto Saynes

This is the worst place and as usual in Lawrence everything sucks. I am hispanic and these Puerto Ricans or whatever the nurse with last name Pomeroy is from think they can treat you like crap just because you are not white otherwise they act straight. We took our 17 year old daughter to the emergency room and we only asked about some tests when the she was in a room and this stupid nurse started to have an attitude towards us saying that my daughter was almost an adult and she didnt have to talk anything with us about it. So they had us there for 5 hours and doing some useless tests thinking that she might have a kidney stone so at the end she didnt and now they wanted another test for ovarian cyst, at 17 years old!!, what a joke. We overheard them talking among nurses and the doctors about our insurance, and one of them even said, keep sending them for tests. All this time the nurse was very rude and my wife asked her how long it was going to take for them to take my daughter to the cat scan and she started to argue with my wife and saying that my wife had been rude all night. At the end the doctor came and said, its nothing, she already gave my daughter some medication, we didnt know, my daughter couldnt tell us , but anyway she left the room and stupid nurse came back just to remove some crap off of my daughter and left, so we had to go and ask if we could leave, so she said yes, and then she left the discharge instructions over there in the room without saying crap. I normally dont go to places where I know is full of Hispanics, and didnt think this hospital was going to be packed of them. Thats one of the reasons I left my country because the same kind of crappy people. This is the last place I would go if I get sick unless I am almost dead and someone else is dragging me and even so I am sure I will be fighting not going there and even if its my last effort in this World I would stand up and leave.

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Daniel Sullivan

I went to the ER here and was admitted for 3 nights after several months of being so tired I would sleep 18ish hours a day and still fall asleep while eating and wake up from spilling the drink I was holding. Apparently my blood pressure was high when I got there, probably from anxiety which I told them, since my BP was normal within an hour and stayed normal. Apparently my saying I was anxious translated to me having a psychiatric disorder. For the next 2 days everything was dismissed as psychiatric until one doctor actually decided to believe me and run a bunch of tests. Turns out I have severe anemia, adrenal insufficiency, and an EEG showed that I had periods of sleep like brainwaves that interupted the normal awake pattern. I was discharged after that with no plan. I got my records but they are useless because 50 pages of saying it was psychiatric distracts from the 2 pages at the end that mention all the physical problems with no follow-up since I was discharged right after. Even my EEG report mentions the abnormality but since the dr said to check for seizures, the conclusion just says "No indication of seizures." I also would have been given the wrong medication twice if I hadnt noticed the pill size was totally different and still had to argue when they said the name of a different med and kept insisting it was the generic name. I think I know the brand and generic names of a med Ive taken every day for 5 years. Turns out I was right. There are many more issues but I think this gets the point across. The only decent thing was the food wasnt too bad.

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Marianela Rivera

WORST hospital experience of my life. The ONLY way I will ever go back is if they drag my unconscious body there. I waited FIVE hours to be attended by an ER nurse and then another hour for the doctor only to be asked to come back for a follow up visit for an ultrasound TWO days later, which should have been performed during the ER visit to figure out what was causing the excruciating pain in my abdomen. I went back two days later and dealt with an ignorant receptionist (Audrey) who didnt know the definition of a FOLLOW UP or the difference between her head and a hole in the ground. I was told that I had to pay a $200 copay for the ER visit and a deductible for the ultrasound (but had the ultrasound been performed during the ER visit, It would have been just the $200 ER copay). I waited an hour and then walked out because I hadnt been attended yet. Honestly, youre better off taking a drive to Mass General Hospital than you are waiting in this dump. If you cant get that far, go to Holy Family Hospital in Methuen. Anything beats this God forsaken place.

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Faly Aguirre

Una mala experiencia me dejaron interna pero nunca me dieron una habitacion permaneci en emergencia .ninguna enferma se digno a preguntar si estaba bien en toda la noche ...llame muchas veces y no me contestaron yo misma tuve que desconectar el suero .... para poder ir al baño ....mucho menos ofrecerme. comida y bebida ... lastima porque el hospital se ve tan limpio y bonito....pero en lo personal lo pensaré para regresar y eso que tengo seguro privado si no me imagino ....

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Sam C

If you are about to die and Lawrence General is the only option available, then fine come here. If you have any other options, exercise and exhaust them first. The most terrible hospital in the world. Their administrators are overbearing hypocrites who only talk in terms of preventing a law suit against themselves. There is one particular administrator you must try to avoid. She is a short squat lady who works as a middle manager in the so-called Excellence Team - definitely rude, possibly racist because she spoke to us in way to suggest that we did not understand English (who knows these days what goes on in a bureaucrats mind), and definitely patronizing, she is one to avoid, although she claims to be the voice of the hospital president. BUT the Nursing staff are beyond excellent and so are the doctors.

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Gary Manley

They do not care about the patient at all. Went there cause Dr office was closed they did not want to help at all. going thru withdrawals and they just brush you off saying its not their problem.They do not control their younger nurses had two young nurses giving me a sponge bath. They were staying in one location a little to long I had to tell them move on while they talked about the boy one of them slept with the night before. Now there are some excellent nurses in there as well.. I went to the ER for help several times and walked out many times as well. I was brought in by ambulance and I still waited an hour before the Doctor came and seen me, then it was another hour before I received any meds. Like I said they just do not care..

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massiel castillo

My 7 year old had sergury at this hospital she had her tonsil revomed the staff from the surgical daycare were so great, but ones we where send to pedi it was a mess no bed for her. Two nurses came in said they will take care of her and left never to bee seen for like 2 hour then one of then came back asking if we were ready to go home didnt even check my daughter to check if she was ok. My daughterwas in alot of pain just gave her tylenol and discharged her at the end she got really rude when we starting asking question of medication and how to obtain paper work to go home and to provide to the school. This is so disappointed for a place that is meant to take care of people but intead get treated like animals

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