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weasel999 t1_islszdi wrote

Reply to comment by MarketMan123 in Which hospital system is better - UMass or St. Vincent? by MarketMan123

And from personal experience

  • I had to have emergency surgery at UMass this summer. All the docs and nurses were great. No issues.
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Huntynoonion t1_islx79x wrote

I had Lyme disease a few years ago and when I went to see my pcp at umass after having terrible migraines and starting to lose feeling in my face they told me “oh it’s just stress from you being a college student”, then when I had to go to the ER there the attending doctor told me “we don’t know what it is, go see a neurologist”, which would have been a 9 month wait at umass, instead I went to tufts in Boston the next week and immediately they said “oh it’s Lyme disease but let’s do blood work to be sure” and of course, they were right. Being so blatantly dismissed by your primary care is why I’ll never go to umass again

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MarketMan123 OP t1_ism0bqg wrote

If it were me they’d be seeing doctors in Boston or New Haven. Neither is far away and they have some of the nations top Hospitals. But that’s not how they think.

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