PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

Reviews 3

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Will Wolter

7 days ago I was driving and eating sunflower seeds when one of the seeds got stuck in the back of my throat. I pulled over and started trying to cough it up but it wasnt the normal feeling of choking it was more gagging. After at least five minutes of hacking I managed to make it move but instead of coming out it went down. Now I know that it fell into my "deep tonsils" which apparently is a thing in my family, but at the time I was scared and didnt know what to think. When I put my finger to the back of my throat I could feel the seed sticking pointy side into the back of my throat skin and into the back of my tongue. To say it was uncomfortable would be an under statement and I spent the better part of three days trying to gently get it out. Finally I gave up when the area started getting dry and sore, the side of my face was hot, slightly numb, and had a slight burning sensation. I also started getting headaches and ear aches so and went to a clinic. Now through my minimal amount of research on the subject I know that the most common reason people complain about the feeling of food in their throat is because they have a scratch or abrasion. What those people dont have though is a SEED IN THEIR FACE that you can touch and move with your finger. So when the nurse came in and stuck a light in my mouth and told me that she didnt see anything, I had a pretty good idea of what she was thinking. I begged her to just reach in and feel in but she sent me away with the excuse that they didnt have the proper equipment. All I needed was her finger and her help. Defeated I left and tried for a few more days to get it out on my own. I cant describe how maddening it is to feel a seed in your throat every second of every day. At this point it had been 6 days and Id tried every thing from meditation to metal tools. After seriously considering cutting it out I decided to give the hospital a try. Mind you, I still work a full time job where Im the only employee and only have Sundays off so I could only go after 6. That brings us to last night at PeaceHealth. Once I got to my room I was greeted by another nurse who I could tell had also made up her mind about me. After sticking a light in my mouth and telling me she couldnt see anything and refusing to feel for the seed I broke down and cried. I could sense that I wasnt believed and that I wasnt going to be helped so I begged her and to her credit she did go get the doctor. I had a vision of the Doctor coming in and finally having someone on my side. He would feel the seed and say "Wow, how long has that been in there?" and then he would rush to get it out and I would give him a hug and I could get my normal life back. Instead he walked in with a look of incredulousness and the first thing he said to me was "I find it highly unlikely that you have a sunflower seed in your throat." I begged him to feel around so he half halfheartedly did so. When he finally came upon the the seed he told me it was a fold of skin!?! and stopped looking. I panicked. I couldnt believe it. I started crying again and trying so hard to make him believe me that at one point while i was yanking on the seed a small piece of the tip broke off. When I told him about that, and Ill never forget his words, he said "Well than you can get it out." I couldnt even look at him when I asked for another doctor. He jumped at the opportunity to leave and was gone before I opened my eyes back up. The junior doctor brushed me off too calling the seed a piece of jaw bone. When I asked him why there wasnt a seed shaped piece of jaw bone that moves and breaks into smaller pieces on the other side he left. Defeated, so did I. So here I am 24 hours later now with a broken seed thats even more sharp than before plus the little rocky pieces in my throat. I still have all the same symptoms but now I definitely have a sore throat and its getting harder to swallow and talk. I guess Ill just be waiting and hoping its all in my head. Thanks for literally nothing Doc.

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Joshua Orekovich

I had a panic attack 2 times in 3 years, both times I went to this facility under the impression I was having heart attack (to the emergency room). Both times I was "strongly recommended" into staying overnight. Both times they performed inappropriate testing on me to understand my cardiovascular condition by putting me on a running machine. Both times they basically slapped me on the butt and said "you arent having a heart attack". Both times they wouldnt explain what I might be experiencing. I had to guess and self diagnose to understand what was wrong through trial and error and eventually seeking another doctor. This is after staying over a full night, and expecting answers. I only stayed the full night the second time to get the opinion of a cardio specialist who would be visiting conveniently enough the next day. Who I heard after entering the main room scold the hospital staff not only on their inappropriate potentially life threatening procedure, but their lack of comprehension of the obvious data they collected. the nurse staff are basically clueless in the ER department, the doctors dont intervene this stupidity either. The other thing I found completely inappropriate, is here I am lying in a bed waiting to find out if Im going to die or not and their insurance "aids" come try to wrangle money out of me before Ive even had time to recognize what is going on with my condition. while I am appalled at the 9k+ bill for being uninsured I received I understand the system is utterly broken and the bill is a result of that. Maybe next time they will be ale to add 2 and 2 together to recognize when someone has just had a panic attack because of recently losing their job. What honestly pissed me off by far wasnt the absurd cst the malpractice and general ignorance but the fact I left after all that without them giving me an answer as to what te problem is ~ thats unacceptable. A year later, my wife used their birthing center for our child. Midwives, water birth, the whole sh-bang. We received exceptional, in fact I would say OUTSTANDING service where we were literally treated like royalty. the rooms were extremely comfortable and the staff wonderful. While our birthing experience was rough, c section, 30+ hours of labor it was still an overall good experience. My 2 cents between the 2 different experiences. I think they are lacking enough truly experienced staff, but do their best anyways.

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James Martin

Peace health sucks literilly. The only reason I would go there is if my life depended on it...I espicially hate what is known in the Legal Field as a rocket docket. They bring you in, check you out and check you out. Two of my visits in the last two years were what I would call medicial situations. The first was an overnighter that should of been a couple of days and Ill never forget when I was lying there in my bed sick ss a dog and this woman who I presumed was a Doctor came in and said "Well your just about ready to be discharged" and as sick as I was I couldnt believe it was really happening. The next visit was because I was told that I was anemic and needed to go into the clinic for a blood transfusin. To make a long story short I had a bacterial abcess on my lung and after 8 hours in the emergency room i was finally admitted to the hospitial for a 5 day tour of duty and I had the same experience with a woman who I pursume to be a Doctor tell me every morning that I was "Welll enough to be discharged" and I was still sick even when the did eventually discharge me then Oh My God the bill was for $35,000 dollars and I cant believe the nerve of the those Doctors to say: "Well in my opinon you have been healed according to ourr hopuitial misssion statement and because I feel this way you are ready to be discharged." The next two visits were for a psychiatric reasons and both of them were overnight(discharged at 3:00 am ) and got the same one night wonder treatment as well. The Doctors would run few blood tests and say, "Well there is nothung that we can do for you medically so we are going to discharge ASAP" I made it to a safe envionment eventually and the bastards didint even think about sendind me to the Memorial Campus on Main Street which I believe hs a 14 bed psych ward and I sure wish that those of us who are mentally challenged could use a decent safe place to go for some treatment when we are sick and I will never ever forget being told that I am "Ready to be discharged" even though I was still very obviously still very sick. I am goin to change my prrimary Insurance from Peace to Legacy Salmon Creek ASAP and by the way I have a job at Legacy and I am doing all of the things right that those assholes at Peace health are doing wrong. "You are ready to be discharged" aka James Martin h