NY Methodist--providing horrible medical services since....

new2hood

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/methodist-hospital-malpractice-article-1.1522103

hamilton

It's always been a shit house, there use to be a saying in the neighborhood.

Go to the Methodist to Die"

But one of my neighbors swears by them since they implemented a same day service.

He drops his kid off before 8am and gets him back by 5pm

newguy88

I've heard bad things and I've heard good things. Just like almost any other hospital. That being said it wouldn't be my first choice but compared to Kings County.....

idlewild

Having been there several times, over the decades, in need of emergency medical attention, I can safely say that while the wait time is still very long; the medical care, once the doctors get to you, is night and day from before NY Presbyterian took over the chop shop. Sterling silver care now, as opposed to the generic aluminum foil wrap.

brooklynpotter

putting aside my own nightmarish methodist experience, i had a friend so sick--and waiting so long in the waiting room--that the security guards called 911 to bring her to anther hospital.

bkchickie

Idlewild said:

Having been there several times, over the decades, in need of emergency medical attention, I can safely say that while the wait time is still very long; the medical care, once the doctors get to you, is night and day from before NY Presbyterian took over the chop shop. Sterling silver care now, as opposed to the generic aluminum foil wrap.

brooklynpotter said:

putting aside my own nightmarish methodist experience, i had a friend so sick--and waiting so long in the waiting room--that the security guards called 911 to bring her to anther hospital.

I think this sums up what I've heard about emergency care at Methodist. But, it begs the question: where IS a decent emergency room around here? Not that I'm planning to visit one any time soon, but everywhere I've lived before I had a go-to hospital picked out, just in case. In Brooklyn, I'm not sure where I would go.

jamzer

Emergency rooms in general are miserable places. I would have to be bleeding to death to go to one and then if only brought there by an ambulance.

Go to a walk-in clinic if you are sick. You get seen much faster and its much cheaper too.

gio

A friend who is a nurse told me that there is a treat and release center on 5th Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets across the street from the Emporium Market which gives excellent care 7 days a week.

dac545

"Treat and release" sounds like something for stray dogs..

booklaw

That would be Premier Care of Park Slope. We've been there... greatly preferable to a hospital emergency room, for anything not requiring surgery.

gio

dac545 said:

"Treat and release" sounds like something for stray dogs..

Sorry I didn't word it properly for you.

gio

booklaw said:

That would be Premier Care of Park Slope. We've been there... greatly preferable to a hospital emergency room, for anything not requiring surgery.

Thank you for posting the name. I was just going to do it since I made sure to pass there tonight to get the info and post to the board.

bkchickie

booklaw said:

That would be Premier Care of Park Slope. We've been there... greatly preferable to a hospital emergency room, for anything not requiring surgery.

I think there is an urgent care center opening up on the PH side of Flatbush between Park and Sterling. At least the awning is up, though I think it's been up for a while.

whynot_31

Unless you require the level of care an Emergency Room can provide, I would speculate that an Urgent Care Center is 99% of the time superior.

...assuming you have health insurance, of course.

goodprospect

If you ever suspect a broken bone, or it's an orthopedic emergency issue in any way, I strongly recommend going to the Hospital for Joint Diseases ER on East 17th Street in Manhattan. All they do is orthopedic and they are total experts. Also a pleasure not to be in an ER with ill people -- just people with orthopedic issues. If it were something that requires an ER but didn't appear to be imminently life-threatening, I would go to NYU-Langone's ER in Manhattan as well. In years past I went to LICH and was well taken care of, but very sadly for all of us that no longer seems to be an option.

dac545

Gio said:

Sorry I didn't word it properly for you.

I have no problem with how you worded it. I just pictured someone getting a shot while in a cage and then the cage door being opened on the sidewalk and the person running away.