I am in need of imaging to be done on the top knuckle of one of my middle fingers. This is very important to remember later on down this review. Both this facility and the company that identifies as RANDET are so horrible, I would not even reward them with a grade of F or zero stars. What a terrible operation this Imaging Specialists of Pasadena is.
First and foremost the telephone booking process was a nightmare, took forever, and the schedulers don't listen to a word the patient says, read from a script, and are extremely pedantic.
Initially, I went to another RADNET provider in Burbank.. Advanced Imaging Systems. The facility was sketchy and rundown. The attending technician was a very noisome personality, a young overbearing woman who catastrophized everything in her description of the procedure right down to telling me I would go permanently deaf if I didn't wear the ear plugs she was offering me. Then she wanted me to lock my personal belongings in a combination locker that was several rooms away from where the MRI was being conducted but only after TWICE asserting that she had the master code. I was not about to submit to this in a sparsely staffed facility at 9.00 in the evening. The place was dirty... really dirty. I got willies from the technician from the word go. I was NOT going to leave my personal affects in a dirty locker half way across the facility that could be opened at any time during my procedure. I was so uncomfortable I left before starting the procedure.
Fast forward one week. I rescheduled and moved my appointment to this RADNET operation, Pasadena Imgaing Specialists, and had a friend come with me this time to hold my stuff. The physical plant is somewhat better but not by much. Still old, threadbare, worn down, and a little bit smelly. In fact, they sheets on the MRI bed smelled like rancid cologne from the previous patient. It was gross.
The first attending technician summoned me to wait in a tiny little dressing room for almost ten minutes, despite leaving my keys and phone with the friend who drove me. I was not about to sit in there, I waited in the hallway quietly questioning why they called me in from the waiting room so early.
Her bedside manner was terrible. She was a palpably stressed out overweight Gen Z with the social skills of a short-bus bully. I was not terribly fond of her but she was the hostess with the mostess compared to the technician in the MRI room who was yanking and pulling me around this way and that, had no idea what support pillow to put under where, and had the phyiscal patient handling skills of a baboon. I felt very badly handled and I didnt like it one damn bit.
I have tendon dislocation in the tip of my middle finger, so you can imagine my surprise when they started to roll me all the way inside a tightly fitting sarcophogas. THE INJURY IS ON THE TIP OF MY FINGER, NOT MY ORGAN CAVITY OR SHOULDER OR HIP ETC... I thought they were just going to roll my arm in and the rest of me could stay outside. I saw no good reason why my entire 6 foot 175 pound person should be rolled deep inside that tube for a finger tip injury.
When I voiced surprise about this, the other fat slovenly technician lost her temper with me and loudly snapped "DO YOU WANT THE PROCEDURE OR NOT?" With this kind of repeatedly poor treatment by three out of three technicans at two separate RADNET facilities I extremely quickly and with 100 percent resoluteness said "No I don't" and swiftly walked out to the lobby, collected my friend and got the hell out of there.
To be fair, both front desk receptionists in both facilities were very nice but ALL of the evening technicians I had exposure to in both Burbank and Pasadena were horrid to the tenth power with awful personalities.
My entire experience these at these two locations and RADNET in general has been apalling.
UPDATE: Scheduled an OPEN MRI at RADNET in Huntington Park. On my third attempt to get my needed medical procedure on the tip of my finger, it was FINALLY a success.
RADNET needs to train the appointment line staff a whole hell of a lot better than they do. I should have been offerred an OPEN MRI for this injury in the first place. read more