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My hospital experience at Coney Island hospital was one of the worst experiences of my life. I was going through a panic attack that day (but did not know it). Due to the extremity of my symptoms, my mother called 911 and they took me to Coney. No one, not a nurse or doctor, came to ask me about my symptoms or anything. After three hours of lying in a hospital bed in a open area that smelled disgusting, I called a doctor over and explained to her that I wanted to speak with a medical professional. After explaining what I was experiencing, she rudely told me that there was nothing that could be done for me. Despite her attitude, I remained polite and asked her to just discharge me then. She said she would get someone to do that and rolled her eyes as she walked away. After 45 minutes of waiting, I called another staff member over and explained that I just wanted to go home because no one was helping me here. He stated that the case managers had all just left as the shift ended and I needed to stay so the hospital could run lab reports on me. I expressed that I did not want any labs done because I had already been to a CityMD where my blood was taken but he stated that I must stay and walked away.

At that point, I became upset because I had been there for 4 hours with no care, no visitation, no explanation and now I was being forced to stay and receive a service that was not helpful to me. I felt unheard and unseen and like no one was taking me seriously even though I was having severe heart palpitations. Thus, I started to scream that my mom is a nurse and my father is a supervisor at the MTA (literally anything that would get the staff to take me seriously). Instead, 5 staff members came over, tied my hands to the rails of the bed. I explained (not shouting at all; very softly because they were right next to me) that I just wanted to go home. A male who must have been a director or a guard asked me where I was from and I said Brooklyn. He literally (I cannot make this up) said "Well, you should Queens next time" in a very condescending voice as 3 of the nurses stated raising up my clothing. I was scared and did not understand why they were exposing my legs. Then one of them pulled out a big needle and injected me with something--till this day, I don't know what it was. They did not ask for consent or tell me what it was. They all just walked away. I realized after severely minutes that they had given me a sedative because I started getting extremely sleepy. They literally drugged me without my consent, after refusing to discharge me and not giving me any care for 4 hours. When I woke up, it was the next morning. They must have taken my blood while I was sleeping (again without my consent) and ran their labs. I requested to go home and this time the staff (which was a completely different morning shift staff) obliged.

My experience at Coney Island hospital was very traumatic and I was already experiencing a physically traumatic occurrence. PLEASE DO NOT GO THERE. I ended up getting COVID from the hospital stay (which I have never gotten before during this whole pandemic) because the hospital was so dirty. BEWARE OF THE RUDE/UNHELPFUL STAFF AND UNPROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT AT...

Stay away, if you can spare 20-30 minutes to go to a different hospital, please go, do not look back, run away. Coney Island hospital operates as it did when founded in the year 1875.

Please note, on this day the emergency room was not busy, there were more staff members working at the time, than actual patients waiting to be treated. At 4:30pm, went in to emergency room for a dislocated pinky finger, a window dropped on the hand and dislocated a pinky finger, no broken bones. At 7pm, two tetanus shots were given, what?!? There was no bleeding, just black and blue, but we were told it was for safety as stated (why two). At 9pm, x rays were performed, on the entire hand At 11pm the nurse had given a pain reliever shot, a few minutes later the doctor took a look at the hand. Without any gloves, he tried to put the pinky back in place, by bending, twisting and moving the finger sideways for 15 minutes. Yes, continuous pain. He gave up as he could not do it, he was not able to put back a dislocated finger, a pinky.

At 12:30pm, after 7 hours since attending the emergency room, (now in a worse situation than before), since the pinky is now half way attached to the finger after continues pain of twisting and bending, the pinky finger is still a dislocated. After giving up, the doctor notified us, we have to come back and see a hand surgeon specialist in the morning, who will be able to put the dislocated pinky finger back into place, that is in this hospital. But the department opens at 8 am, so she would have to wait all night with a dislocated pinky and come back to Coney Island hospital. After the Doctor stated this, the nurse notified the doctor, that there was an email sent out, (the doctor did not read it), stating the hand specialist department only takes cash and medicaid patience. (Reason: My guess is No insurance companies are willing to pay for the butcher/horrible performance that this hospital does, resulting in other hospitals needing to redo that same procedure, leaving insurance companies paying twice)

At 1am, we are told to go somewhere else to have this issue resolved! Wow, is my response as well.

We went to NYU right after, we were there at 1:30am, the doctor seen us at 2am, put the finger back in place on the second try, that took 20 seconds. We were on our way home at 2:30am.

Here is another horror story: a friend of my was knocked out by a sucker punch when he was 16, he ended up in Coney Island hospital, in a comma after being treated. The assigned doctor approached his parents and notified them that he was dead, 2 hours later he recovered from a comma. Yup, it's that bad.

Hospitals are just large businesses, that hire employees (doctors, nurses, billing members, managers, etc), and charge the patient's insurance or direct cash payments. I do not understand, how no other institute/hospital (like NUY) can not take over and strip down this dinosaur of its unqualified position and offer to the public...

Please, I lost many family members in this hospital malpractice. For the safety of yourself then your loved ones get out of this hospital as soon as possible if you are admitted through ER, make sure that you get a transfer immediately out of this hospital.. my brother was admitted through emergency. I tried to transfer him out. They sent someone from neurology to to convince him to stay there that they could do the things there that NYU could do. I know that they can’t. They have one doctor that comes once a week and the rest of the days there are PAs there. . CAT scan shows that he is hemorrhaging in his brain and that he has an aneurysm in his coded artery five different PAs told me five different stories. They told me then the doctor told me he wasn’t bleeding another. PA said he didn’t have a aneurysm.. I told her to look at the CAT scan and MR report MRI report states that he has an aneurysm in Colorado artery. She then told me that he didn’t have an infection and his white blood count was high and all his other factors that prove that he has an infection were off the charts before days finally the night nurse and the night PA put them on antibiotics. . I met this one PA one time and I caught her in so many lies. She never even read his charts. She’s and she has no idea if his case.. his sugar levels were high on blood results. I told him to test his sugars and then they had to give them insulin. If I didn’t tell them to check his sugar he would’ve been a sugar, diabetic coma. On top of all the other things that are going on with him, he’s just sitting getting worse not any better and I am not going to wait until he’s near death to make an emergency operation which I’ve already experienced the outcome. My uncle wind it up on life-support after they were done with him.. and my older brother, they just left him to bleed out and did nothing to intervene. I have so much to say, but I don’t have enough space to write long story short is they know that I am aware of all the malpractice that’s going on there and now they’re trying to stop me from getting the records and reading the records and the reports to show all the mistakes that they’ve already made there. The PA made up a lie and said that she felt threatened and I’m not allowed back in the hospital. I never threatened her all. I told her that was to read his land and his Cat scan reports I didn’t ask her. Do you know what’s going on with my brother and then she said to be honest with you no . Now she’s changing the script making up all sorts of lies cause she knows that I have the hospital on the malpractice and they want to make sure that I’m not able to stay there to witness what’s going on. Dear God in heaven, this is the worst Hospital believe me for the safety and welfare of your family. Do not take your...