Allegheny General Hospital

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Randy Foster

When I arrived at your institution I received wonderful care in the emergency room. Then you transferred me to this god forsaken unholy torture ward where you preceded to do everything you could to suck me dry regardless of medical need or medical desire. Why you did not even care if you subjected me to medically unwise procedures just to fatten your bottom line. You kidnapped me and held me against my will. As I regained my strength you sent in your first thug. The first thug deceived to test my swollen knee for septic arthritis, of course there were no medical indications to do that procedure (the indications actually indicated that septic arthritis would be the LAST thing to suspect) but what the hell, despite never stating that the procedure would require a three day stay. Hurrah to you devious slugs, that kept the funds flowing did.nt it? Thursday night= We want OUT. My adult daughter by my side we were warned that if we check out the insurance company would not pay anything for my stay. I think your nurse was lying. An intern had to stop and explain why we could not get out. They kept the dirty secret plan to themselves, must be part of your Hypocrite oath, dont reveal we are putting you through some expensive unneeded procedures. Unless they did not know about the test the next morning. What happened overnight? The high cost stress test room empty that morning and you went around the hospital looking for a patient you could stick in there. GUESS WHAT!! All your despicable disgusting low lying scabby Doctors then pulled there biggest crime. It was so good it took me weeks to figure it out, actually it took forcing your hospital to detail its bills to reveal what you did. First you wake the drugged up patient around 5 AM before they have their wits up, or a family member to defend them. I am wheeled into a hallway and the next thing I know I am being wheeled back into my room many hours later. I guess you dont care how horrific your actions are. Without my approval or knowledge you put me through a stress test with myocardial perfusion and god only knows what else. Four nights in the hospital no Doctor ever visited to talk about my rapidly improving condition. NEVER. No Doctor ever discussed concerns with me. What happened ? Do you just think it is none of the patients business to know what is going on? I am not a piece of meat. I was not a product for you to offer your Doctors. Like your Physical therapist who walked in my door and was told to leave immediately ( I read about that little rip off you pull and was not falling for it.) she did not mind billing me even though she was informed her services were not needed . I guess you all think you have a right to the patients account. You loved billing the insurance company for the non provided services also. A perfect example of your behavior. You want the money. You want the money. Your hospital is guilty of gross negligence and you have complete disregard for the welfare of your patients. You are not a hospital you are a prison. Your greedy corporate decision to treat me as a revenue source and not a person is very obvious. You created the bills because you wanted to, not because I needed more care. Send every bill after my third day there to the Knee doctor and whatever doctor decided he had a god given right to perform a stress test on me. You stand accused (and I will be disseminating this story) of doing medical procedures without good reason except to profit yourselves. You are truly the scum of this earth. Truth is you could have killed me just to fatten your asses. You will get no more money from me. I have rid myself of AGHN doctors. Do not bill me again or else I will be forced to take further action.

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Elyra Tusmi

My fathers surgery for a morphine pump was nearly botched, the staples at his incision wasnt put in right and ending up busting. The wound became infected, but when he had his appointment with the doctor he was assigned to (Dr. Schmidt btw) to get the staples removed, the man saw the BROWN BLOOD and simply said, "Oh its just because of blood thinners." Nope. Infection- of course- got worse. We couldnt call an ambulance since were barely scraping by so we got a ride from a friend to a different hospital. That hospital contacted AGH to get permission to run tests and see how bad my father was, even though it was pretty obvious just from looking at it how bad he was. Nope. AGH forbade them even though he was already checked in and everything. So he got a ride to AGH and for nearly FOUR HOURS he waited in the waiting room even though they were told he was coming and they said theyd be prepared. There were other patients too who had been in the waiting room for even longer than he had been... In the ER waiting room. So finally gets a room, finally they check it out and its not brown blood anymore, its become yellow. They then start arguing amongst themselves after running tests. First they say theyd just give him antibiotics and let him leave. Then they say theyre going to drain out all of the pus and infection, give him antibiotics then let him leave. Then they say theyre going to keep him overnight with an antibiotic iv. Then they finally say, "Well once those pumps get infection in them, its impossible to fully cure the infection from it, so were just going to remove it." They plan it in the morning, morning comes and guess what? They decide, "Naaah its not important, never mind." And start to prepare to have him leave. Other doctors butt in and refuse this surgery to be ignored and this goes on until mid afternoon. Finally they all agree that pumps gotta get removed so my father has to wait ANOTHER day to see if HOPEFULLY hell get it removed. Meanwhile, precious Dr. Schmidt is running the nurses (who will be given credit are doing their absolute best) ragged and arguing with my father that hes gunna remove the old pump and put in a new one all in the same surgery. Which of course, is not going to fly and my father just wants to get out of that hospital and never see it ever again. Right now, while everyone in there are running around bickering at each other, my dads life is in their hands and its not looking good. Long story short. Dont trust this hospital. And dont ever go to it.

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Q smith

I am 18 years old I was in a motorcycle accident never being in the hospital for anything this serious I had broken my leg fractured my skull and split open my head I was in and out of it due to the pain they did give me pain medicine but for some of it I was still awake while they were breaking my leg back into position they were joking around not taking it serious I told them that my head is still bleeding then they realized that I split open my head and started to sew it up well I was awake for it all they were not sure if they were to use Staples or just to sew it up they decided to sew it up and while they were doing so he was asking someone else in the room if he was doing it right or if it was too tight being my first time in a situation like this I didnt know what to say to them I just passed out again then I woke up in a hospital room where I had to wait to get surgery for my leg I cant remember everything but after surgery they had me in a hospital room nurses came in regularly every 4 hours I was given oxycodone it was a little round pill I was not able to sleep through the night due to pain I called in a nurse for pain medicine and one of the nurses came in with two pills that were not the same as before I didnt care didnt think it was anything until the next time I called in for more medicine she came back with nothing she acted like she scanned my bracelet and I clearly seen that she didnt at this point I thought she might have been really tired since it was late at night then she went back to her portable computer stand and asked me if theres anything else I needed I told her that she did not give me my medicine she looked around on the floor look around on the computer stand went to the bathroom and then just left she clearly never came with the medicine I knew that since she did not scan my bracelet and at this point I knew that she had talking it and was just high on pain meds I called for another nurse that did come into my room and give me what I was supposed to get and I told her that the last nurse just left and then then I overheard her in the hallway talking to somebody else that she is stupid couldnt make out anything else she said but clearly something was wrong I just ignored it went to bed I didnt want to tell the doctors because I dont trust them anymore after this whole experience I dont know what to do Im afraid for help