I feel a moral obligation to share the horrific experience we had at Trinity
My father had a stroke. We took him to the emergency room here and he was misdiagnosed with a cardiac issue. When his heart stabilized, the physician on the cardiac unit tried to send us home, despite the fact that my father couldn't walk. He had been going on a 30-minute walk, once a day, prior to our visit. I insisted they order an MRI. They took him down for it 6 hours later. The next day, when we arrived, we asked the nurse for the results. When she looked, she told us that the MRI had shown a stroke. When the neurologist arrived 2 hours later, he hadn't read the MRI and acted surprised that we knew my father had had one. Only after he bothered to look at the MRI, did they put my father on the necessary medications that could have prevented further issues 2 days before. While he was on the neurology floor, I happened to be there when they came to take him down for a surgery to install an internal heart monitor that the cardiologist had ordered prior to finding the stroke. The fact that they came to get him in the neurological unit gave them no pause, and, I can only imagine he might have died in surgery at that point. Thank goodness for my background is in healthcare and that I was there to advocate for him. I am saddened that others might have to experience the same ineptitude with no one to look out for them. Please avoid this hospital at all costs and take your loved ones to the University of Michigan.
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