Frisbie Memorial Hospital

Reviews 5

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gg Giordano

I was a physician there and found the emergency department largely unsafe and understaffed. The hospital regularly utilizes paramedics to fulfill the duties of what nurses should be doing. The nurses were very talented and largely compassionate as were my colleagues. I found the emergency physicians and PAs there to be very professional and astute. But they are under a large amount of pressure to tow the line of hospital policies and look the other way when lapses in protocol occur. I understand this because they have families and careers to protect and many are young in their careers. The hospital makes it a point to hire young & inexperienced providers they can groom to their policies. I had many occasions where staff members changed my orders, and once where a paramedic added diagnoses to my chart and attempted to discharge one of my patients! When I reported this the administration did nothing. This is dangerous and other physicians know to stay away. Theres a reason they fly doctors in from Texas to staff their ER because no doctor worth their credentials would go there and stay given the lack of supoort forn physicians making the decisions. If you want a nurse or paramedic managing your care then by all means go there. But it is my belief (and the New Hampshire medical boards) that as a patient you deserve to be evaluated and treated by a certified professional without interference. If you or your family member is critically ill go elsewhere. Trust me. P.S. Btw, the positive reviews on here mentioning specific doctors by name use suspicious verbiage familiar to clinical staff and in my opinion fake.

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David Lawrence

Went to the Emergency Room for a badly cut finger. No one else was there. They took my information right away and got me into a room. Someone came in, took a quick look and asked that x-rays be taken due to the nature of the injury. So far, so good. 30 minutes later, the x-ray technician comes to get me, which I felt was way too long. Turns out the x-ray dept was only about 20 steps away. No idea why it took so long. X-rays taken and then back to the room to wait some more. One other person in Emergency at that point. After another 30 minutes, the doctor comes in and stitches me up. He did a good job explaining the injury, and what he was going to do. About 2 hours in Emergency and I was good to go. I was told to come back to Emergency in a week to have the stitches removed. So far, I would give them a B. A week goes by and Im ready to have the stitches removed. Being a Sunday, I didnt want to show up and have it be very busy. So I called Emergency and asked if they were busy, and if not I would come to get my stitches out. The (I assume) nurse said that they are not allowed to state whether they are busy or not per hospital policy. I told her I was only about 10 minutes away and if she said they were not busy and I get there only to find that they now are busy, I would turn around and go home. With that said, I asked again and she repeated the policy and would not say. In this day of competitive hospitals, that was very poor customer service. I could have gone to Wentworth-Douglas in Dover and maybe next time I will. Service there cant be any worse.

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ellie valea

wish i could give zero stars. there isnt just one thing that makes me hate this hospital, its several different experiences. i broke my knee and they told me i was fine and faking it, only to go to a specialist the next day and be diagnosed with a fractured growth plate and torn cartilage. they also almost killed my mom after she had her tonsils out when they lost her chart that said she had pneumonia - she was sent home without treatment and the scab came off her throat from coughing and she almost bled to death. then when i went to the ER while pregnant for something unrelated to the pregnancy, they told me i needed a D&C because there was no DNA in the baby sac. was told i needed to go to their OBGYN connected to the hospital... he had me go through the whole appointment and then at the last minute the doctor said that it was likely a mistake. had tons of ultrasounds in my pregnancy with that same child, even one while in labor. they ignored me after he was born when i insisted something was wrong. they let us out of the hospital when he was three days old. i brought him to a different doctor (avis goodwin) when he was four days old and he was admitted to wentworth and then dartmouth with severe birth defects most of which could and should have been diagnosed in my pregnancy. luckily after seven major abdominal surgeries hes doing better, no thanks to frisbie.

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Captian Chaos the Pirate Pimp

This place is not a good place. If I had the choice between dying a slow, agonizing and brutal death on a filth covered sidewalk on a hot summer day, or, go to this hospital... I would choose the sidewalk. Spent most of the evening in the ER with my daughter. The only person that made any sense or showed any compassion there was the nice lady in the ultrasound dept. We only saw the doctor for about 5 minutes, he smelled like he had been "self medicating" and had no idea what could be wrong with my kid. The nurse that came to the room was rude and had the nerve to get pissy with me because I dared to question the use of morphine on my child after she had already been dosed with 2 other pain killers. There were two people in the hall in hospital uniforms that spent a good 30 minutes laughing and joking about how sketchy the hospital was. And the final icing on the cake was the delusional elderly man that kept stomping around mostly naked (his hospital gown was only tied at the neck and that was all he was wearing) yelling all sorts of things about wars, bills, food and how he was a billionaire. No one did a thing to calm him, contain him.. put some underwear on him... anything. So yeah. You would probably have a better time and better luck pouring bleach in your wounds and consulting with a gypsy healer then going here.

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Ashley Chasse

If I could rate this place as a half a star I would in a heart beat not only we the hospitality at a slim to none but they put my child in a HALLWAY. And we were no the only emergency patients in there. But even the people who were there to be seen at the same time as us who were not there for anything more important then what my child was there for for a room. Why not us. We have insurance. He swallowed a magnet for Christ sakes and they put me in a HALLWAY!! I really just cant stand this hospital and if the weather wasnt so bad I would have went straight to Wentworth douglad. we are people to and I just wanted to be treated like we were important not as a bother. Oh and for the nurses who seem to think that being rude is the way to go you knew what you signed up for when you became a nurse I realize you are tired and work long hours but why are you taking it out on me. Trust me the er is the last place I want to be so keep in mind that we both feel the same way neither of us want to be there but we have to be.

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