The medical industry has jumped the shark

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35. I'm sorry they did that to you.

I just had surgery for kidney stones 11 days ago and was horrified at the way patients were treated, not by the doctors or nurses, but by one of the premium medical centers in the world. Or at least I thought it was: Duke.

It was an outpatient procedure and I think I would have benefited from a night in the hospital. I was also denied opioids for pain, but the upside of that is no constipation - my pain was 7 to 8 when I came home from the hospital but guess what? they never asked me in the hospital for that.

We didn't get the time of the surgery until the day before. Then when we got there, we had to wait for nearly 3 hours before I got a bed. My son had to hang out at the hospital for 10 hours. My nurse could not stay with me through the surgery because she would have exceeded the number of hours she was allowed to work.

All I had to do was pee in order to be pushed out the door, but it took awhile, to where the pharmacy where i regularly get my meds might have closed before we could pick up all my prescriptions. so they had already ordered them from there, then without bothering to cancel them, ordered them again at a 24 hour pharmacy, which cost my son $80.00 because they couldn't get approved twice for the same drugs.

I felt we were treated inhumanely and was outraged. It's been awhile since I had surgery and this was the first time it was done on an outpatient basis, but that whole process sucked balls. All these people waiting and waiting, fasting, can't drink, etc.

All for greed. This is what happens when the money counters design the treatment plan.