Hi everyone im back, operation over pain gone. I had VHI first level plan one, procedure code 5728,double micro lumbar discectomy.
My surgeon and his team were the most professional group I have ever met. Now I have a small hole in my back a big hole in my bank balance. Cost= ONE night stay in hospital € 3250.00, Surgeon = €2000.00, Anesthetic =€ 700.00est. OUCH!!!!!!!!
But here is where im looking for advice???
I would describe my one night stay in hospital as disgraceful, a third world hospital managed by Basil Fawlty.
Just a quick idea, is that I filled in 5 different reports with different members of staff including a kitchen menu saying that I was lactose intolerant, everything I got on the first day was dairy based, We had travellers lamping rabbits in the hospital grounds at night, shinning there spot lights into the rooms, you couldn't make these things up.
There is a long list to go with these, then I was discharged, said goodbye to everyone and arranged a lift 60miles home.
When I got home I got a call to come back to the hospital, as they hadn't changed my dressing and needed to take the needle out of my arm that they fed the drips through.
A heated debate took place in which they told me to go to my GP and get him to do it.
I am livid! I intend to write to the hospital outlining the things I found wrong.
Is this the best way to approach it or is there some other way of going about it?