My name is Christian Hartings. Im using my husbands account to post here. I was transported to Waterloo ICU for 1 1/2 hrs from my home in Iowa after I had collapsed in front of my house after severely hitting my head two days earlier. I had been in an ER closer by for that.
The decision was made by my primary care doctor and the emergency nurse from my usual hospital that i should be send to waterloo to an receive an emergency eeg to see if my brain is malfunctioning.
I have been mistreated in this hopital - i dont even want to call it that - to an extent that terrified me: The neurologist Melissa McMillan ignored the order, an eeg was not performed. I had passed out another time in the ICU and was brutalized by nurses that performed a violent knuckle rub that left my sternum area heavily bruised.
The next day I was told they would try to get me out of the ICU to a regular unit to observe me another night or two. Neurologist McMillan visited me.
She tried to convince me im suffering from anxiety and stress, that i would benefit from seeing a psychiatrist. Besides the fact known by her, that i had suffered a severe TBI more than a decade prior that left me with multiple neorological problems. I pushed back on this ridiculous assessment. She felt visibly offended.
Another hour later or so I was ask by Miss McMillan if I was "ok" to go home" because there was no bed in the regular unit and they needed the ICU bed available. I was shocked by this, but left.
My partner took me home and had to leave to take care of my elderly father in law. Not shortly after he left I passed out at home alone. I woke up again before my he came back. I dont know how long i was out.
There were a couple of more things astray at the ICU and with miss McMillan i dont see the need to mention here.
This is my experience with Waterloo hospital and especially Melissa McMillan. I felt humiliated, ridiculed, mistreated, violated in my patient rights and most of all endangered and fearing for my well-being.
The polar opposite of what i should have felt.
Here are the facts.
I let you be the judge. Me personally i find this lack of care, competence and compassion by medical staff and doctors there unbelievable, shocking, dehumanizing and flat out cruel. I read many people calling for this hospital to be sued.
And thats exactly what Im gonna set out to do.
Miss MCMillan you should be absolutely ashamed for what you have done to me. You have ignored the oath you took, have shaken my trust in the medical system to the core and thats not even the worst you have done to me. I deeply hope god - and by his will - the legal system will punish you for this... read more