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My brother went to Seton Emergency Room on September 2, 2006 in the evening hours complaining of...
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My brother went to Seton Emergency Room on September 2, 2006 in the evening hours complaining of chest pain, abdominal pain, back pain. He was not even completly evaluated instead he was given some pills and told to go home. In the early hours before 2 AM my parents arrived at home to find him in bad shape and so they rushed him back to Seton hospital. Guess what? He needed emergency open heart surgery because he had an Aortic Ascending and Dissecting Aneurysm. The symptoms he had not even twenty-fours hours earlier were the symptoms of an aneurysm. The doctor told my parents if they had not brought him in when they did he would of died within the hour. Unbelievable considering my brother went to the hospital to seek medical help and was sent home with pills. After, surgery he was in ICU and he had some really bad nurses in the evening that had terrible bedside manner, lazy, cold and unsympathetic to their patients needs and care and the patient's family. A good example is my brother soiled on himself and rather than change the bedding and clean him up the nurse left him in this condition. My mother had to coax the nurse in cleaning him so he could then be transferred to another floor. She did the very minimal cleaning lets put it this way a dog or cat is cleaner after a bowel movement than he was. She just did not want to take the time to clean him up rather send him up to the next floor and have them do the dirty work. The fourth floor nurses were more interested in keeping him drugged up on Rispedal and sedatives so he would not wake up without being in a dazed confused state of mind. My parents were very cooperative with the nurses and provided them their cell phone numbers and alternate numbers to contact as needed. Today, on September 12, 2006 in the early hours of the morning before 2 AM a nurse comes in by and manhandles my brother with a rough swab in his mouth and made the inside of his mouth bleed. Then she tries giving him more sedatives when the whole objective is to wean him off the sedatives so the physicians can evaluate my brother's condition better. Fortunately, my mother was there in his room and she asked the nurse what she was doing and the nurse told my mother and my mother said no more sedatives my son needs to wake up without being in a daze. So then she rips his other IVS out and has the IVS leaking on his bed sheets and she never changed the sheets either. My mother found a clean sheet and put it where the IVS were leaking on his bed. Another issue is the "Sitter" whom is supposed to be in my brother's room monitoring him today was told to go home when my mother arrived yesterday ( 9-11-06). When my mother asked where was the sitter going the nurse said they sent the sitter home and did not need her anymore. My brother has been running fevers and rather than run blood tests they let him stay that way until my mother demanded some blood work be done to findout what is causing the fevers and he also has an infection. The nurses like to restrain my brother rather than speak to him and tell him he just had heart surgery. My brother has had a feeding tube in him since this past Saturday because he is not awake yet to eat solids of coarse he would not be able to eat on his own when all the nurses keep doing is giving him sedatives. My final thoughts would be for any and all people to BEWARE SETON HOSPITAL is a great place to become addicted to pain pills and to be kept sedated and to see plenty of rude and uncaring nurses. THIS HOSPITAL IS NOT FIT FOR AN ANIMAL TO GET ADEQUATE TREATMENT LET ALONE A HUMAN BEING.
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These folks helped me quit smoking without putting on weight, fixed a bad case of back strain, and...
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These folks helped me quit smoking without putting on weight, fixed a bad case of back strain, and did it all for less than the price of a movie and burger. Unbelieveable.
And follow-up! These folks called me up later to make sure the treatment took. Really excellent service, and I keep going back to the price, because it's amazingly low.
Pros: Quiet clinic, individualized treatment
Cons: None
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Lane Bryant
Category:
Social Services & Welfare
2901 S Capital-texas Hwy #g01a
Austin,
Texas 78746
This is one of my favorite stores in the mall. They have great clothes theres and the staff is...
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This is one of my favorite stores in the mall. They have great clothes theres and the staff is always pleasant and willing to help you put together the perfect outfit.
The only con is that whole sets of items are often placed on sales racks or tagged as on sale but when you get to the counter they say 'oh these weren't supposed to be there' or that sale was over this weekend.
PROS: Good Sales & staff
CONS: Clothing often not racked properly
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Safeplace
Category:
Family Crisis Services
PO Box 19454
Austin,
Texas 78760
(512) 267-7233
I hope you're not in need of Safeplace services (shelter, counseling), but if you are you should...
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I hope you're not in need of Safeplace services (shelter, counseling), but if you are you should certainly give them a call. Their hotline is open 24 hours a day. I also wanted to mention that this is a great place to donate locally or volunteer your time. As far as domestic violence programs go, this is a very good one and we should be proud to have it in Austin. The shelter itself used to be twice the size it is now, but much of it had to close because of a loss in funding. Please support it.
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May Day Services
Category:
Senior Citizens Service & Health Organizations
1200 Lakeway Dr Ste 9
Austin,
Texas 78734
(512) 261-5358
I have used May Day Services (health care claims monitoring service) for over 5 years, and I...
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I have used May Day Services (health care claims monitoring service) for over 5 years, and I highly recommend them! The owner, Mary Hathaway, is knowledgeable, diligent, and dependable; and she's willing to battle for every one of her clients. May Day's service fees are extremely reasonable. I especially recommend May Day's health claims services for anyone facing a major illness and huge stacks of insurance company EOBs and medical bills. May Day will make sure that the patient doesn't pay one cent more than he or she owes. This is a WONDERFUL resource!!
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I contacted them a few years ago when I was heavily addicted to prescription pills. I ended up...
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I contacted them a few years ago when I was heavily addicted to prescription pills. I ended up being admitted to their inpatient facility, which was a life changing event for me. When I came back to Austin, I returned to the LaHa Solutions Outpatient program. I find the staff to be extremely caring and believe I owe much of my sobriety to them. THis is a fantastic place to get help at.
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...Because after paying $200 MORE than Labcorp or Planned Parenthood, that is EXACTLY where they r...
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...Because after paying $200 MORE than Labcorp or Planned Parenthood, that is EXACTLY where they r going to send YOU.
BOTTOM LINE:
I was convinced to pay an extra $140 on top of the original asking charge of $159. totalling to a whopping $299.00, under their impression that they would be able to give me a POSITIVE or NEGATIVE result of the test and I was promised these results after 12 days of exposure (as opposed to waiting 90 days) ,
#1 Despite the fact that they present themselves as if they have their own labs ( advancedtestingcenter dot com ) they simply sent me to "Labcorp" (labcorp dot com )
#2: After a little research, I discovered that Labcorp only charges the patient $96.00 for the EXACT SAME TEST!
#3: The test came back "unequivocal; neither positive or negative" & was told that if I wait another 12 weeks they could test me again for "only fifty more dollars". Wow! Only $50.00 more dollars, what a deal, right? ...WRONg.
After letting them know that I was not satisfied that I got what I paid for, a supposed manager by the name of Michelle argued with me for about 7 minutes & told me that she could help that I was not satisfied or under a different impression. She then gave me a different story than the original rep gave me and when I informed her that her information would have been GREAT to know BEFORE I gave them my credit card information, NOT AFTER-THE-FACT. I informed her that I was given a different impression when I originally called them, & she advised me to "take that up with the original female representative, Tony". She then attempted to confuse me with her medical terminology BS, as if I DID NOT understand how they operate. ATC why are you charging customers $200 more dollars than the actual lab does directly? & why are you selling test results that don't give actual positive or negative test results and charging customers even MORE money to take another test? Even the owner was unreasonable. What a bunch of con-artists!
Pros: Very polite. At first, before they get your money or when they are attempting to upsell their service.
Cons: Unreasonable owner, and doesn't seem to value customer's satisfaction.
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38th Street Pharmacy
Category:
Pharmacies & Drug Stores
711 W 38th St
Austin,
Texas 78705
(512) 371-6492
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