5/5 Jc B. 2 years ago on Google
on
Oct
18
my
daughter
went
to
Langone
with
severe
back
pain.
She
couldn't
walk
stand
sit
or
lie
down.
After
an
MRI
they
put
her
on
a"pain.
management"
protocol
and
released
her
after
five
days
in
the
hospital
with
no
real
decrease
in
her
suffering.
The
neurologist
they
referred
her
to
said
there
was
no
mechanical
reason
she
should
be
in
such
pain.
Cut
to
two
months
later,
two.
months
of
extreme
agony
before
she
was
finally
referred
top
a
neuro
surgeon
and
last
week
she
was
operated
on
for,
in
the
surgeons
own
words,
"a
huge
herniated
disk'
larger
than
he
had
ever
seen.
He
also
was
at
a
loss
to
explain
why
this
referral
hadn't
been
made
immediately.
He
was
looking
at
the
same
MRI
the
first
team
looked
at.
Let
me
say
something
about
your
so
called
"pain
management"
protocols.
If
the
pain
isn't
going
away
after
a
week
in
the
hospital
under
this
protocol
then
it's
probably
not
going
to
go
away
by
itself.
I
am
giving
a
five
star
review
only
for
the
fast
action
the
surgical
team
took
to
get
her
in
during
the
holidays,
with
the
surgeon
breaking
his
vacation
to
attend
her.
She
walked
out
of
the
hospital
same
day
of
surgery
and
is
now
finally
recovering
and
nearly
pain
free
today.
Thank
you.
The
rest
of
the
team
gets
a
D-
.
And
thanks,
by
the
way,
for
propagating
the
stereotype
that
women
who
are
in
extreme
pain
are
simply
being
"Hysterical"
I
say
this
understanding
that
most
of
the
people
on
the
front
end
of
who
my
daughter
dealt
with,
from
the
ER
to
the
nursing
staff
on
her
floor
were
Women.
The
message
here
for
patients
is
be
your
own
best
advocate.
The
message
for
the
Hospital
is
to
please
re
examine
your
"pain
management"
protocols
so
other
people
don't
have
to
go
through
what
she
did.
Two
and
a
half
months
of
agony
for
something
that
should
have
taken
no
longer
than
two
weeks
at
the
outside.
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