If I was anyone else, I would avoid going anywhere that is affiliated with St Peter's Hospital. These people do not care about you or if you are injured. That has been made quite clear every single time I went there. I actually had to move away from my birth state of Montana, because I would never get the care I need in that state. Because I am disabled from a terrible spinal injury years ago, I require pain medication sometimes. These people did everything they could think of, to make me as miserable and suicidal as possible. They would have loved it had I done so. It is just the way they operate for some reason. You will be judged, so be prepared. If you have a tattoo or earring as a male, or are perhaps LGBTQ, they will judge you immediately and you will labelled as a drug addict or worse. It is their favourite subject. They love having the power to give you pain relief or not, and the majority of the time, it is not. The doctor they forced me to see, Tanya McCullough, told me that I am just faking my injury, though it is plainly visible on X-rays and MRI's. She told me that she was going to cut me off cold turkey from the pain meds and the Valium that they had me on for so many years. She proceeded to do so, causing me to go into horrible withdrawal, which she found quite amusing. When I saw her next, I was a shaking mess of snot and tears. She laughed and told me I deserved it. I think that it is highly dangerous to yank someone off narcotic meds and Benzodiazepines without any help for the withdrawal symptoms. Dr McCullough thought it was hilarious and loved seeing me get closer and closer to total breakdown. She said that all I needed from now on for my chronic, never-ending pain in my spine, was Ben-Gay. I think that was supposed to be a joke at my expense, since I am LGBTQ. This is a very typical attitude at St Peter's Hospital. If you are one of those 'gay people', then you deserve no help and are automatically a 'drug addict' or have AIDS and really deserve no help. Once I recovered as much as I could from the withdrawal, I was told by Dr McCullough and Charlene Lewis, that it would be best if I moved to a different state, since they would do no more for me. Like they were helping me in the first place, which they were not, obviously. I did not want to have to move, since my family has been in Montana since 1862, but I was forced to, by them and others in Helena. It was obvious that I would never receive the proper care in Helena or Montana. Now that I live in Minnesota, and I have been to the Mayo Clinic, they told me that I have never once had a 'problem' with my pain medications and that it is very easy to tell by my medical and pharmacy records. They said that I needed to be on some pain medication, to at least have some semblance of a life. They put me right back on ALL of the narcotic pain medications that Dr McCullough and Charlene Lewis yanked me off of for no reason, other than that they thought it was amusing. The Mayo was so shocked when I told them about the Montana and St Peter's experience. But, the minute I said St Peter's, they knew exactly what I was talking about. St Pete's bad reputation is known around the country, apparently. It is also what happens to LGBTQ people in Montana, and one must get used to it. The Mayo also informed me that by doing what they did in Montana, they damaged my spine even more, and also gave me the gift that keeps on giving - PTSD. I am now terrified of all doctors, nurses and hospitals. I cannot even walk into one any longer without having issues. That is what those two doctors from St Peter's did to me and gave to me, if only for their own amusement. I swear to God this happened, and I think that most who read this will know it is the exact truth. I am not the only one who has gone through this with St Peter's and anything they are affiliated with. They are not kind, nice or even competent people, obviously. My story should serve as a warning to others. I hope it does. If you care about your loved ones, do not take them to St Peter's Hospital or anything affiliated with them. Again, I swear to God that this happened just the way I typed it. And that is not even the half of it. Worse and worse, St Peters! Should be really proud of themselves, eh? read more