Had to rush my partner to the hospital one evening as he was complaining of pain which progressively got worse as the evening progressed. The York Regional Hospital in Richmond Hill would have been a closer option, but on the one occasion I have been there, the wait times were astronomical (over 6 hours to see a doctor..I was told to go to the hospital from a Dr. at a walk in clinic)
Anyways, we arrived at Willam Osler at approx. 11:15pm. After a short (30 minutes)wait in the waiting room, we were called into the back. Great...that wasn't bad at all we thought...until we realized we were being ushered into ANOTHER waiting room, where we sat until 2:00am until we saw a doctor. The only issue I had with the 2nd waiting room as they should have sorted patients based on illness....ie...my partner was not exhibiting any signs of the flu, yet was put in a room with flu patients (many of whom could win prizes in distance vomiting competitions). By the end of the week, we were both sick with the flu, although we did not have it going to the hospital)
The initial doctor was amazing, did a battery of tests, recommended seeing a surgeon and did what he could to alleviate the pain. We were then passed to an "attending doctor" who forgot about us. Our initial doctor told the attending doctor to complete the chart and release him. Off both doctors went. This was at 4am.
At 5:30am...a nurse came into the room and asked who we were and why we were there as our chart was not in the organizer. Apparently, the attending took it with him and was called away.....so no one knew we were still there. We saw the nurse calling around trying to find the doctor and then she came in and apologized and said that we could have left over an hour ago. She then presented us with some paperwork and told us to go see our family doctor for a follow up visit.
The reason the score is so high is that a few days later we visited our GP. Our GP went through the paperwork provided, as well as information he received electronically from the hospital and was VERY PLEASED with how thorough they were. He said that they ordered every test he would have ordered and then a few for good measure. He had high praise for the doctors at this hospital.
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