Health Care Debate - Bullhead City, AZ

truth-n-consequence wrote:

First off, I would like to thank you for your service to our country.
Driving to Vegas is very inconvenient and time consuming, to say the least. But I would bet anything that the quality of healthcare that you receive there beats anything in Bullhead. There are exceptions to every rule, and a contradicting story for ever person`s view, but as you are a veteran, you deserve the best and you'd be hard pressed to find it in Bullhead City's healthcare. I speak from my own experience. Not only was the care a relative that I took care of sub-standard, the incompetence I dealt with starting with the 911 operator to WARMC hospital was disturbing. The hospital added insult to injury by double billing, charging for services they didn't do, and padding their bills. Of course they do this and get away with it because most patients don't know any better. Or in my relative's case the patient can't contest when he's dead. His so-called doctors were still billing him 6 months after his death. I made sure to tell the right agencies because medicaid shouldn't be abused. So if you decide to pursue your healthcare options here in town, please be an aggressive patient, ask questions, demand answers, don't accept a first diagnosis as your only diagnosis, and pay attention to the billing paperwork! Keep them honest and you healthy! Good luck.

left Miami FLA wrote:

This whole thread is ludicrous. The care in BHC is the best I've ever had and I've lived all over the country. Top notch & the quality is second to none. Do you guys complain about everything all the time? I guess making up stuff is what these internet chat rooms are all about so carry on I guess. If you really want bad healthcare try Dallas TX or Miami FLA then some legitimate critisizm would be in order.

Sheila K wrote:

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Really? Is that why we have so many foreign doctors here? Few American doctors come here, why's that? I've no doubt we do have great health care workers here, but ask any nurse if they are assigned too many patients at a time.

truth-n-consequence wrote:

First off, I would like to thank you for your service to our country.
Driving to Vegas is very inconvenient and time consuming, to say the least. But I would bet anything that the quality of healthcare that you receive there beats anything in Bullhead. There are exceptions to every rule, and a contradicting story for ever person`s view, but as you are a veteran, you deserve the best and you'd be hard pressed to find it in Bullhead City's healthcare. I speak from my own experience. Not only was the care a relative that I took care of sub-standard, the incompetence I dealt with starting with the 911 operator to WARMC hospital was disturbing. The hospital added insult to injury by double billing, charging for services they didn't do, and padding their bills. Of course they do this and get away with it because most patients don't know any better. Or in my relative's case the patient can't contest when he's dead. His so-called doctors were still billing him 6 months after his death. I made sure to tell the right agencies because medicaid shouldn't be abused. So if you decide to pursue your healthcare options here in town, please be an aggressive patient, ask questions, demand answers, don't accept a first diagnosis as your only diagnosis, and pay attention to the billing paperwork! Keep them honest and you healthy! Good luck.

left Miami FLA wrote:

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I'm not going to engage in the typical run around conversation that always seems to happen in these chat room places. One or two chat people always seem to enjoy spending there lives here on the internet complaining about anything and everything. let's just be realistic here and leave it at that. ALL cities across this great nation have their fair share of good Doctors and not so good ones, Same thing with nurses etc. I'll leave you with this though. Try getting into a hospital or Doctors office in Florida when there's a few hundred illegal's standing in line ahead of you.

left Miami FLA wrote:

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I'm not going to engage in the typical run around conversation that always seems to happen in these chat room places. One or two chat people always seem to enjoy spending there lives here on the internet complaining about anything and everything. let's just be realistic here and leave it at that. ALL cities across this great nation have their fair share of good Doctors and not so good ones, Same thing with nurses etc. I'll leave you with this though. Try getting into a hospital or Doctors office in Florida when there's a few hundred illegal's standing in line ahead of you.

left Miami FLA wrote:

This whole thread is ludicrous. The care in BHC is the best I've ever had and I've lived all over the country. Top notch & the quality is second to none. Do you guys complain about everything all the time? I guess making up stuff is what these internet chat rooms are all about so carry on I guess. If you really want bad healthcare try Dallas TX or Miami FLA then some legitimate critisizm would be in order.

Truth-N-Consequence wrote:

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"ludicrous"? No. As I stated in my earlier post, there are some people whose experiences with B.H.C.'s healthcare would be different than mine. You had a positive experience, that's very fortunate, good for you. I fail to see how anyone who posted on this topic is lying about anything-really what's our motive?
As for the helicopter transport issue, from what I understand it's because WARMC doesn't have a critical care dept/equiptment. That`s why you read so much about knife wound injuries and victims of severe car accidents being airlifted to Vegas. Weekends are a really inconvenient time to get to a doctor. I haven't seen 1 "urgent care" clinic open on weekends or god forbid past 5 p.m. on weekdays. The E.R. is the only option. You can be certain they take all major credit cards...lol. You can't be sure you'll be getting optimal care.
As for why there are so many foreign doctors? I can speculate but the factual reason is probably one nobody will want to admit without being anonymous or on the record. A part-time nurse told me "why would one go through medical school, be bogged down with student loans, and "choose" to practice here, when they can make 3 times that amount in a major metropolis/city? Think about it." I had to agree with her.

rick haynes wrote:

<quoted text>try being a veteran and get in to see the doctor at all, or try to get in when the room is full of welfare folks. these are rough times we live in right now, and folks are just going to have to do what we need to go to a doctor........just try to find a good one here in bullhead.

left Miami FLA wrote:

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Fine, you just made my point. No matter where you live a person might have a bad experience and another a good experience. There are plenty of good & bad healthcare professionals in every state of the union but to single out one geographical location and bad mouth the industry as a whole is just plain ludicrous as I said before. Just remember you can have a bad experience anywhere and that includes exclusive high end cities like Beverly Hills. Know how many mal practice suits happen every day in the so called 'rich' cities? Too many to count I'm afraid.
Knife wounds? Car Crashes? lol ,Try Florida my friend and you'd be amazed at the illegal activities all the big drug cartels bring to the streets.
Bottom line ,there's good & bad in every city in the world and that's a fact.

Truth-n-Consequences wrote:

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You should really read the content of the posts you are responding to before going off half-cocked.
I made no point for you. In my initial post I said that different people would have different experiences (which is common sense). The only thing you have done is claimed a positive one. Your point about me making a point for you is your mistake.
How does that old quote go, "The Lady doth protest too much."?
In reference to your above post that "WE are doing much better this year" in regards to ER waiting room times, and that "BHC has some of the finest medical practioners", I must say that you don't sound like a patient to me, but you surely sound like an employee of a fine BHC medical practioner.
I have no motive other than to share my personal experiences with BHC medical care so that someone else could use that info- or not. I am not here to spin, promote, or do damage control.
Calling other people's posts ludicrous and going off topic about things like Florida's drug cartels makes me question your integrity and motive where this thread's subject is concerned.
By the way, knife wounds and car crashes were in reference to the limitations of WARMC's critical care unit not what misfortunes one could encounter.
Let's keep the thread open to people who want to relate their HONEST EXPERIENCES AS PATIENTS- good or bad. So other potential patients can come to their own conclusions.

Roberta Palmer wrote:

I am afraid our private insurance rates are going to increase where we can't afford it any more.