UAMS Medical Center — Local services in Little Rock

My mother suffered from a heart attack that left her in bad shape. She was held in the hospital for 6 weeks due to the instability of her condition post heart attack. Finally she was released and she wanted a female cardiologist. She chose a doctor at UAMS. I went with my mother to her first and would be last visit to UAMS cardiology clinic. Upon meeting Dr female cardiologist, I could see that she had very little time or interest in my mother's case. The doctor dove right in after a quick glance at her medical chart. She began by bluntly stating that my mother had had caused her heart to decline and went on to tell my mother she had less than 3 months to live. The doctor repeated these two sentences at least half a dozen times during the 10 minutes spent with the doctor. She went on to tell my mother there was nothing she could do and that her life would end in a matter of weeks and that it was her fault. The cardiologist refused to write any prescriptions due to fact that nothing would "cure" her. At this point I spoke up and asked her to take it easy as my mother was crying and gasping for air. I brought up the fact that she needed oxygen and the hospital had her on it for the last 6 weeks and that her oxygen saturation was steady at 82% - 84%. (Oxygen is normally prescribed when the amount of oxygen in the blood reaches 92%. This is standard precedure for hospital patients). I was told it would not cure her so she would not prescribe it for her. When I asked about it making her more comfortable, the doctor scoffed at me reiterating that my mother was to blame for her condition. I was then told that it was my fault that my mother had a heart disease in the first place. And that I should have done more to take care of her. First I DO take care of my mother. Been COMPLETELY supporting her for almost two years now. And SECOND, obviously I didn't cause my mother to be sick, but can you believe that any medical professional would say that to another person. The meeting ended by doctor female cardiologist once again informing us that my mother had max 3 months to live, and then set her next appointment for 4 months away. THINK ABOUT THAT STUFF FOR A MINUTE!! This is a TRUE STORY! This doctor refused to help my mother, insulted my mother and I, badgered my mother to the point of a nervous breakdown, then kicked us out the office with the full intentions of never seeing my mother again! This is an update to a review that i had written months ago. My mother of course never made it to the appointment set by doctor female cardiologist. But I hope you a reading this doc. My mother DID outlive your expected death date. She lived for 4 and half months. Although she was so tramatized by the experience at UAMS that she refused to see another cardiologist. It was a NIGHTMARE to see the sheer panic in my mother's eyes as she gasped for air but was unable to get the oxygen she needed. This will be burned into my mind forever. As will the way my mother was treated at UAMS by doctor female cardiologist. I wish like hell we had never gone to see this doctor. The lack of oxygen caused my mother an undescribable amount of anxiety and fear and complete discomfort the last few weeks on this earth. I will neve forget the suffering my mother endured due to this doctors refusal to prescribe her oxygen. I cannot speak about the entire staff at UAMS cardiac care unit. I am sure there are good doctors there. However I do know for a fact that the cardiologist overseeing my mother's case WAS NOT a good doctor. I mean what kind of doctor refuses to give a dying patient the comfort of being able to breath? She wasn't asking for pain meds or zans. My mother needed OXYGEN. Her doctor refused to write her a prescription for OXYGEN. This is inhumane to say the least. Borderline on barbarric torture if you think about it. Thank you all for taking the time to read this. Be careful when choosing the doctors your doctor's. Take control of your treatment. Seek treatment from another doctor if you feel you are not receiving the best healthcare for...

I do not recommend this hospital for anyone. A friend of mine was in a car accident in Clarksville over the weekend and was taken to the hospital, they told him that he needed to have surgery so they transported him to UAMS in Little Rock. After being transported they took x-rays and told him that he didn’t need surgery and they called his wife at 1am to tell her that he was being discharged and she needed to come get him. His wife told them that she lives in Fort Smith and had no way to come and get him at that time, they told her that they would let him stay in a room until she was able to come get him later that morning. I took her to get him and we arrived there at a little after 9am, upon arrival she found out that they kicked him out of the room at 4:30 that morning, set him in a wheelchair in the ER area with nothing to drink and when we pulled up to the ER and parked to get him one of the so called security guards came out and asked us very rudely what we needed, she told him that we were there to pick her husband up and he asked very rudely if he was the one in the wheelchair, she said yes that was him, he told us very rudely that we would have to come in and push him out to the car so we did. After getting him out to the car we were standing there waiting for a staff member to come help him transfer from the wheelchair to the car, as we were waiting the security guard came out and asked us very us what we were waiting for, we told him that we were waiting for someone to come help transfer him from the chair to the car and we were told that we would have to do it ourselves, we told him that we could not because she was still healing from a broken right wrist and that I just had surgery on Friday August 29th and I could not lift or pull on anything that weighed over 15 lbs for the next 4 weeks. We were told that we would have to hurry up and figure something out because they needed me to move my car. The Staff at UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock are very rude, disrespectful, and lazy. They do not do anything to help the patients, so like I said before, I do not recommend this hospital for anyone unless you want to be treated very poorly. I would give them a zero star...

Thought it was the best place to carry my wife who had lymphoma. Everything started out great. After chemo they done a bone marrow on her when we thought she was to weak too. She got where all they could do was give her fluids. We decided to go home and come back every few days. We did this for several months and she seemed better. But her stomach had to be drained every 2 1/2 weeks. She got weak one day and fell so I rushed her to the emergency room at the hospital. The next night her sister come to visit her and we were all happy that she felt good. She was in ICU the next day and they said she was going to a room as soon as they had one available. We left and at 3 in the morning we got a call saying I needed to hurry back up there. When I got there they said in the ICU unit that she had threw up in her respirator and it had gone down in her lungs. They had tied her hands up where she couldn’t get it off. Why they did that they we weren’t told. We could see that she had been with out oxygen and had brain damage. She could no longer talk or respond to us. They had the nerve then to say that she was going to die anyway. After I got through telling them what I thought they got in a huddle and started talking about us. Here we were by her bed side and people started walking back looking at us. I said something to the young doctor about it and he said , well we talk about everybody. Told him to get his ass up and leave. I knew then that she was going to die for no reason. They acted like they needed her out of that room. Had some girl there we called the lady of death. Kept coming in the room saying that she was going to die anyway. We left before I was hauled off to jail. Never in my life had I seen anything like it. She died about 3 that morning before I could get to her. Just 4 days earlier she was ok. I give it 2 stars because everyone else in the hospital had done a great job and was nice as could be. What ever you or anybody else does I beg you please if you’re loved one has to go to the ICU unit get them out of there as fast as you can. Heard they were in bad financial trouble and wondered if they just wanted the bed space. You need more info please text me. I was there for...