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    5.0 (1 review)
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    Center for Oral Facial & Implant Surgery

    Center for Oral Facial & Implant Surgery

    2.9(8 reviews)
    6.1 mi

    Staff and Dr Miller were great. My daughter suffers from tourettes and severe anxiety and they made…read moreher feel about as relaxed and she possibly could. Recovery was smooth. 100% recommend

    Originally I was meant to have my four wisdom teeth removed in my hometown, but as COVID struck and…read moreI was planning a move to Chattanooga, I pushed back my surgery and made an appointment with COFS. The consultation went fine, although I felt Dr. Spann seemed a bit cocky and barely looked in my mouth. The nurse staff had a weird sorority vibe around him, but everyone was very nice and I moved ahead with the surgery. Before I was taken into the operating room I discussed my medication allergies with the nurse (I only have two, one being amoxicillin, which makes me break out in horrible hives). They explained the procedure to me and asked if I had any concerns. I said not really, only that I have a birth control implant in my left arm, and therefore would prefer to have the anesthesia IV in my right arm. She said that was perfect and we made our way to the surgery room. We had yet another conversation about my implant during the walk down the hall, and I demonstrated how you can feel in through my skin. I laid down for surgery and a mask was put over my face, the laughing gas caused me to drift away and I heard them talking about putting the IV in. I felt the nurse touching my left arm and was jerked awake as she tied the rubber tourniquet directly over my implant in my left arm!! It felt as though it was pushed through my skin. I was able to say "not the left one," then heard her say "oh right, oops!" and I was pulled under. My boyfriend drove me home and went back out to get my antibiotics and pain pills. When he returned, the antibiotic they had prescribed me was amoxicillin! I told him I was very allergic and I went back to sleep. It took him about three hours to get everything sorted out with the pharmacy and nurses at COFS (who simply said "oops" again about the mistake). Because of this careless mix up I wasn't able to take my full rounds of antibiotics my first recovery day. Following the surgery in October, my arm felt consistently sore and uncomfortable. My period had began a few days before the surgery and didn't stop until the beginning of February. I was finally able to get an appointment with my gynecologist, suspecting that the nurse had in fact damaged the Nexaplon implant. It was removed yesterday, bent and creased. My gynecologist said that's not something that happens, and was surely a result of this nurse ignoring me. I understand mistakes happen, but I felt I wasn't listened to at all by these medical "professionals," and that they were only going through the motions of the job. Also, six whole weeks after the surgery, my chin and lips were still numb. I understand nerve damage can happen in this procedure, and my nerves did slowly repair and feeling has returned, but it made me wonder what other mistakes occurred while I was unconscious...

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    CHI Memorial Hospital

    CHI Memorial Hospital

    2.7(21 reviews)
    0.5 mi

    I was a patient of this hospital for 4 necessary procedures. The first I was in for one week, then…read morefor 3 weeks, another surgery that was a little under a week, and then for a same day surgery. On the long stays, the nurses were wonderful. I was in my own room, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and everyone was so nice, helpful and caring. They took good care of me. My last two surgeries where with a wonderful doctor who worked out of that hospital. On my 4th one, his team had to streamline the hospitals they would work out of as it was a good haul for them from their main office. I really wanted to be at Chi and not another hospital, and this fine surgeon worked it out with another doctor there to switch a shift so that my surgery could happen at Chi Memorial. Like the show Cheers, I was happy to be back to the hospital where everybody knew my name! It is my home hospital, where I am happy to go should I need their attention! ER waiting rooms are different. Waits can be long, even when it seems that they do not have a lot of people waiting. But not every emergency comes through those doors. Some come through other doors that we may not see. I am betting that some staff have to treat more than people who are coming through the ER door. I never felt anyone was being negligent. There are stages, and depending on what needs to be done, shorter or longer waits. From the people who take your information and then move it out, then the ones that take your vitals, then the ones that take your blood samples, then the lab technicians who have to analyze those blood samples or whatever is sent to them, and then being ushered inside to a room if necessary, where finally a nurse will come in, and then after her the doctor, and finally the nurse to release you. That is a heck of a lot of people for one emergency room patient (me). I know I can feel like it's forever, so just try to remember that inbetween treating you, the medical staff may need to first save a life of someone who coded before they could come into your room. All praise to all of the hospital staff! Each time I wished I could give them a gigantic bouquet of flowers!

    Horrible ER long wait rude employees security personnel sitting and eating at the desk very…read moreunprofessional collecting blood in waiting room stacking patients in rooms.

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