[ElainMoria]

*Update*

I am def screaming right now. My Pulmonologist was supposed to have referred my to an infectious disease specialist in Portland Or. about 2 weeks ago or so. I even called the specialist myself and left a message for them. Well.. I never got a call back so a cpl days ago I called my doctor's office and told them the specialist hadn't called me to set an appointment... the nurse tells me "Oh you wanted a referral for him? We never sent one" and yet the doctor himself told me he was referring me to this specialist...

So they called me back a day later and told me they had faxed the specialist a referral to see me. I call the specialist today (three days after they supposedly sent the referral) "we have not received any referral for you".

I'm serious when I say the worst health care I have ever experienced is here in Klamath Falls, Oregon. SkyLakes medical center used to be called Merle West Medical Center (locals called it Murder West) Skylakes is not very fondly called DieLakes by the locals now. 60 minutes did an expose on Merle West after it was rated by the CDC as one of the most dangerous hospitals in the region, with your chances of catching and dieing from a staph or other medically caused infection being 17 times higher than the national average.

The general ineptitude of the doctors and support staff here continue to support this hospitals bad reputation.

I contacted my PCP in Ashland and asked her to refer me to her Pulmomologist and the infectious disease specialist she knows in Medford. Tired of the BS here.


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