CEDARS-SINAI IS ONE OF THE WORST HOSPITALS IN MY EXPERIENCE
I
was lied to by nurse Donna Bias when I flew from Guam to
Cedars-Sinai Hospital in 2009 for major neck surgery. She told me
that Cedars has the lowest downtime (hospital stay) after surgery in
the country. At first that sounded impressive, until I realized the
horrifying truth about WHY they have the best statistics—they threw
me out of the hospital while I still had stabbing chest pain in my
sternum, I was dizzy, I was still bleeding where they stuck a
catheter in me during the surgery, my neck was hurting horribly were
they did the surgery, and I begged them not to discharge me for a
couple more days. Those bastards put me in a Yellow taxi cab and
abandoned me, showing zero mercy.
Nurse Donna Bias is a bold-faced liar, and ought to be in prison! They deserve to have their legs cut off and suffer for the rest of their lives. Hell is coming up to meet them! Isaiah 14:9, “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” Isaiah 5:14, “Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.” I don't hate anybody, God knows my heart, I just want JUSTICE! I want them to give a damn at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, forced to care, but they couldn't care less at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, and only God can MAKE THEM CARE! And praise the Lord, HE WILL in eternity! NO ONE will walk away from God's Judgment still uncaring, because it will be too late then, and damnation will be their just reward. I pray for God to avenge me of their abuse toward me at Cedars-Sinai Hospital on several counts!
It is sad, but true, many U.S. hospitals are
below acceptable standards. Even worse, if you are mistreated, there
is little or no recourse of action available. Thankfully, freedom of
speech allows us at least to share our bad experiences with others,
so hopefully they won't undergo the same abuse. This particular blog
is about CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER in Los Angeles, California. I
strongly recommend that you consider getting surgery somewhere else.
I underwent neck surgery there in 2009, i.e., double discectomy and
spinal fusion. Two weeks after the surgery, I wrote a multi-page
complaint letter to CEDAR-SINAI'S Quality Improvement Department.
I specified that I didn't want a generic apology letter. I requested
to speak with a human being, a person, and to receive an apology
from a person. They refused.
Here are my numerous complaints I made to the hospital:
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They mixed up my surgical paperwork with another patient's. Fortunately I caught the error.
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Prior to my surgery, while I had wires all sticking out of me, a hospital security guard went through my wallet, without even telling me what he was doing. He took everything out of my wallet, item by item, and then wrote it all down. He should have at least introduced himself and asked me if it was ok for him to look in my wallet. He violated my right to privacy and disrespected me as a person. Nurse Laura Raya told me they'd simply put my wallet into the hospital safe. She didn't say they would rifle through my wallet like it was their own. That's really low-class on their part.
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They put me out of the hospital too soon—while I was still dizzy, bleeding from where the catheter was removed, suffering in agonizing pain, felt stabbing pain in my chest, et cetera. They didn't care. It hadn't even been 48-hours since I woke out of surgery. They cut my neck from the front to do the surgery.
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I told the male nurse that I felt dizzy. He asked, "But you can walk right?" I again told him that I was dizzy, and he again asked, "But you can walk right?"
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The surgeon, Dr. Neel Anand, who performed my surgery assured me BEFORE the surgery that he would give me stronger pain medication AFTER the surgery, because my body was used to the meds I had been taking for a long time. Well, he didn't and I suffered horribly.
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After being told that it was against hospital policy to put me in a taxi after my surgery, they put me in a taxi anyway. The driver gunned the gas pedal and my head lunged back. I thought the hardware had come loose in my neck.
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I was alone when I received surgery, with no family present, nor waiting at the hotel. I told this to the staff, pre-op doctor (Dr. Mark Davidson) and surgeon, but they didn't care. Workman's Comp wanted me to stay in the hospital for a longer duration, but the surgeon said no.
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After the taxi incident, I ended up back in CEDARS-SINAI's emergency room just 3-hours after I was discharged from the hospital. The pre-op doctor told me to go to the emergency room for pain relief and have them call him. I did that and they refused to treat me for 30-minutes because I refused to sign a financial obligation form. I told them that I had just undergone surgery at THEIR hospital, by THEIR doctors, and was now in THEIR emergency room. And moreover, I had been instructed by one of THEIR doctors to have THEM call him, but they could not be reasoned with. They refused to help me, even raising their voices at me and telling me to leave. I tell the truth.
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One nurse became belligerent and said, "Would you mail a letter without a stamp?" Another nurse stuck his chest in my face and ordered me into a side room. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. They ganged up on me. I was wearing my neck brace, had on my original IV bandages from surgery, and wore another bandage where blood had been removed. I was barely able to stand up I was so tired and weary. The employees in their emergency room were rude, abusive, insulting and extremely unprofessional.
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I went into the side room to use the phone, to call the pre-op doctor who had told me to go to the emergency room. While the phone was ringing, a female staff member walked in with a witness and said,"Sign this form or else you have to use the phone in the lobby." I told her that I went into the side room to avoid conflict with them, because they were being abusive, and now she was wanting to pick a fight with me. I told her that I was in pain from surgery and needed their help, and didn't need their harassment.
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The pre-op doctor answered his phone. I told him that I was being abused by the emergency room staff. He said they were breaking the law by not helping me. A senior nurse came in and I could see that she was angry. My doctor asked to speak to her, but she said, word for word, "I'm not talking to your doctor or any doctor." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She wouldn't even talk with my doctor, who was waiting on the phone. She had a needle in her hand and said, "Do you want help or not?" After waiting 30-minutes, and seeing that she was visibly angry and emotional, I decided to suffer in pain rather than let them abuse me any further. I went back to the hotel and tripled my pain pills in desperation for relief. I was grief stricken and overwhelmed. It was hell on earth at CEDARS-SINAI HOSPITAL that night.
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The next day I went back to CEDARS-SINAI and requested an x-ray from the taxi incident to see if my hardware had come loose, because my pain was excruciating. They handed me 15-pages of paperwork to fill out.
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I was in so much pain that I requested to be readmitted back into the hospital the next day. My surgeon readmitted me into the hospital. This was a Friday afternoon. I was assigned to a pain specialist who disappeared for the weekend. I was suffering in pain bad on Saturday, but the nurse said she couldn't give me any more pain medication without the doctor's permission, and she couldn't reach the doctor for the weekend. I was stunned. The whole reason I was readmitted into the hospital was for them to treat my pain. I said, then I'll just go home. The nurse became snotty and said, "Then you'll have to sign a statement that you're going directly against your doctor's orders." I was trapped in their hospital. The doctor was unavailable for the weekend and I just suffered in agonizing pain. No one cared at all at CEDARS-SINAI. I even called their Volunteer Department, but they said they couldn't do anything.
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On Sunday, after suffering all night in unnecessary pain, I finally got the approval of a different doctor to go home. They never did treat my pain as they advertise.
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The nurse (Donna Bias) handling my Workman's Comp paperwork messed up and I received a bunch of bills that I shouldn't have received.
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The surgeon prescribed a Bone Stimulator device for my neck, to help it fuse, and they gave me enough electrode pads for 6-weeks. I ran out. They had assured me they would send more if I needed them. I contacted them and was told they'd send the pads. I never did receive any more pads and I couldn't find the pads to buy anywhere online. I was supposed to wear the device for 9-months according to Dr. Rebecca Rosemann. I wore it for 6-weeks because they didn't send me the pads they had promised.
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I was assured by the coordinator nurse that I would receive a phone call from the manager of the emergency room, 4-times, but no one ever called. She just ignored me. After all the abuse I endured in the emergency room, was it too much to expect a simple verbal apology.
And so, I hope and pray that no one reading this post will ever have to go through what I suffered through. The surgery hasn't offered ANY relief, none whatsoever. My legs still kick way out when tested for reflexes. I had a recent MRI, which shows that I still have bone spurs in the same C5-C6 area where they did surgery. Why didn't they take care of the bone spurs while they were in there at C5-C6? I just don't get it. I need another surgery to fix what they left undone. Sure I'm upset. It was scary enough getting the first surgery, and now I have to get surgery all over again because they didn't do the job right the first time. I have severe pain and ripping tension in my neck, and pain extending down into my right arm and leg. Going to CEDARS-SINAI was a big mistake.
They told me to wear the Bone Stimulator device they provided for 9-months. Despite my request for more pads, they never sent them. I reminded them, but they ignored me. Cedars-Sinai crapped on me! I tried to buy the pads on Ebay, but couldn't find them anywhere. And so, I only wore the unit for 6-weeks. What a sham by the hospital! Is that how you treat a patient after performing surgery on him? Of course I'm upset. My comforting thought is that the King James Bible (God's inspired Words) promises that God will avenge me as His child of Cedars-Sinai Hospital's abuse, mistreatment, incompetence, dishonesty and worst of all, apathy. They are indifferent. Donna Bias lied to me about hospital policy, and they should have provided safe transportation back to my residence after surgery. She lied to me! They stuck me in a taxicab. Romans 12:19, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
Donna Bias promised me that the night manager of the ER would contact me, so that we could discuss the incidents which happened when they refused to treat my neck pain after surgery. No one ever called, and when I called Cedars-Sinai, Julie was belligerent and deliberately cut the call short, promising that someone would get back to me. Julie also lied to me—no one ever called. It is dishonest that Cedars-Sinai brags about the lowest hospital stay after surgery. The truth is that to maintain their national record, you can expect to be discharged and thrown out of the hospital—whether you are ready to be discharged or not. Worker's comp said they would have preferred that Cedars-Sinai keep me under observation after my surgery, but Cedars only cares about maintaining their shady impressive statistics. THAT IS NEFARIOUS AND EXTREMELY DISHONEST!!! I suffered needlessly so that Cedars-could maintain their bullcrap statistics. There's nothing impress about statistics attained at the expense of hurting others. Romans 12:19, “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
Please say a prayer for me, whoever you may be; and please DON'T go to CEDARS-SINAI for anything, unless you want to be abandoned, abused and neglected like I was. Don't get surgery at Cedars-Sinai, unless you want to be prematurely discharged after surgery to preserve their bullcrap statistics! I can only speak for myself. My experience was a nightmare. God will avenge me of the abuse, mistreatment, abandonment, arrogance, needless pain, dishonesty, thuggery, indifference, suffering and negligence incurred before, during and after my neck surgery in 2009 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Beware of their scam at Cedars-Sinai Hospital! They will lure you into their hospital with lying claims of having the lowest hospital stay after surgery, but what it really means (if you read between the lines) is that unless you are a wealthy person or movie star, they will toss you out in the street right after your surgery, and won't give a damn about you (which is exactly what those monsters did to me in 2009). Due to their irresponsible surgeon, I had to undergo another corrective surgery in 2010 elsewhere, to try to fix their blunder (because they did the bare minimum just to get the money). I filed a complaint with the California Medical Board, but they sat on the complaint and did absolutely nothing!!! I pray for God to punish them severely!!! To Hell with California, the Granola State, the land of fruits and nuts! The entire state of California is a corrupt, fraudulent and ungodly cesspool of iniquity. You've got more homosexuals, liars, cheats, thieves, perverts, police thugs, exploitation of illegal immigrants for cheap labor, and religious con men lurking in California than anywhere else in America! Lex Luthor had the right idea in Superman, to nuke the San Andreas Fault Line and sink California into the ocean! Proverbs 11:21, “Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.” Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Woe unto the wicked!!!
Matthew 25:40, “And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
