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Apparently, one trip to the hospital with a spider bite is not good enough. Last Friday, I took a trip in an ambulance to the hospital south of us about 50-60 miles away. I will not really go into the absolute circus this particular stay involved. I will tell you that it was extremely unpleasant, even for a usual hospital stay. That brings up health care in general. Where we live, there are doctors and an urgent care clinic. Other than that, we are left to our own devices. We did have what people used to laughingly call a hospital but that closed some time ago. The owner of the property and building where the old hospital was will not sell it for less than a huge amount.That means that we are not going to have one for the foreseeable future. Not good.
Health care in Arkansas can be good, depending on where you live. In our area, the doctors try to do it all. That cannot work simply because they are human and need time off too. Most of the time, however, health care here is as bad as my trip to the hospital south of us. I do want to mention one thing here. And this is specific to this particular hospital. I am on several meds that are needing to be taken at specific times….every 8 hours. But this place is much different in how it gives out meds. For one thing, despite the fact that you might have your own with you, it is policy for them to hand them out. I can understand that. They want to know everything you are taking.
This hospital has also a policy or rather the pharmacy at the hospital does. If you specify every 8 hours on a med, they will give it to you with a “2 hour window” every 8 hours. What does that mean anyway? However, if your med says that it has to be taken 3 times a day, that is a different kettle of fish. Frankly, that does not compute to me. 3 times a day works out to every 8 hours. Not so. According to this pharmacy, if it states 3 times a day, you will find your med being given to you at 9am, 1pm and 5pm regardless of what it might do to you. That is simply nuts, in my not-so humble opinion. I have never heard of such drivel until I went there. In fact, it was in a hospital that I learned that you cannot take those meds in less time than that. I used to take meds every 4-6 hours and go to bed. Nope. That’s why you find yourself getting awakened at the hospital to take a med. They are on the 8 hours schedule. Usually. This whole thing makes me want to look up those Brazil vacation packages and just take off and forget I ever heard of Arkansas and the beautiful way they treat people.
You know, this is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. You would think that it would then include adequate to superior health care. But I have heard too many stories of how this place and that place are too horrible to return to. This particular facility is now in that category for me. Unless there is no other way to do it, I do not think I will end up there again. That was too much of a circus. Oh it was more than the med policy. I do not have enough energy to go over it all right here. Just believe me when I say that I do not want to go there again!!!!
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