Princeton Hospital — Local services in Plainsboro Township

I would never go to the emergency room ever again.This is not the first time ! Last time had to write a letter to the board about the mistreatment of my grandma in the ER. But this time that I went. I went because I have a thorn in the side of my foot and it’s causing me to feel sick. The thorn came from a poisonous plant and I been having flu like symptoms, dry heaving and foot pain came back after the steroids were finished.this is clearly a concern. I had already went to urgent care and got a steroid and after ot started up again. I decided to go to the emergency room because it was not getting better and dizziness is getting worse. The doctor (Daniel Farber), told me that I needed a psychiatric evaluation because I was crying. He also wrote in my notes that I refuse a psychiatric evaluation that I continued to go in circles and talk about how I didn’t do drugs. The reason for this is because instead of caring about my foot, being compassionate and listening to what I was saying about my foot they wanted to put me in a psychiatric evaluation because I was upset. Yes I was upset and at this point in my life, I am a little overwhelmed. I lost my mother at the beginning of the year. I lost my cousin. I was the hospice nurse to my grandmother, who just passed in July , no less from the time that I was at the hospital next week I pick up my daughters wedding dress and in October is her wedding. And currently I can’t even wear shoes because the pain hurts and I asked him to take the thorn out of my foot and he told me he can’t do that in a hospital, but I would have to go to his office or go to podiatrist and then condescendingly. He told me he would give me crutches , so I was overwhelmed because my daughter‘s weddings coming up and she is things that are coming up and I want to be able to dance with her at her wedding and if I’m feeling like this about my foot now and getting worse … what will happen if I let this go considering that the thorn is ffrom poisonous plant to Humans there should’ve been concerned for that and there should’ve been compassion about how I’m feeling . This World has become a very unloving place and the one place that you would expect compassion would be from caregivers ..I’m going to the emergency room and I have a thorn on my foot Daniel Farber should be taking it out. The next thing I asked for bloodwork to make sure that there’s no poison in my body because I’m dizzy and I don’t feel well, so he told me he would give me the bloodwork to make sure there’s no poison in my body . After everything is all set and done and I pay the $170 he didn’t even do the correct blood test. Then the nurse proceeds to tell me that they don’t do toxicity tests in a hospital. Do you understand how absurd that is. I have never ever been in the hospital that has been so inconsiderate for somebody’s feelings about what is going on and then right in my chart That I need a psychiatric evaluation because I was manic. If you go to a hospital, throwing up dizzy with your foot on fire and yes, I’m sorry. I was a little overwhelmed with everything that had happened this year and my daughter‘s wedding coming up as I’m sure every mother can understand that , my foot was never taken seriously. So now needless to say, I have to go to my primary for her to look at my bloodwork because they’re two things in my blood work that are elevated and according to Google or talk about allergic reactions. I would never ever go to this hospital ever again the last time I was there with my grandmother, nobody knew where she was, and then the one nurse popped his head out of one room and said oh she’s in this other room and she was by herself nobody helped me wheel her out. Nobody helped me transfer her to the car I would not go to this emergency room , I do know that the primary care doctors are great doctors. I’ve had surgeries there by specialists who were...

Today I went to the princeton ER and my Nurse was Barbra White and she was exceptional. Barbra made sure the whole time I was not looking for her she was attentive and pleasant to have taking care of me while im in such a bad position. Other ER rooms can make you feel lost and that someone forgot about you this was not the case here. I say thank you to Barbra for caring for me today.

Update: I had to go into the hospital for a bone infection. I cant say enough about this hospital, my whole life I went to Robert woood and would wait for days to see a doctor and if you asked for a doctor good luck because theyve always just seemed to treat you as a product in the room.

Now at Princeton I was never alone, I never could not get in touch with doctors and or my nurses and they all came to see me in a tomely manner. My nurses on the second floor Judith, Tera, and Alissa we extremely attentive and actually went out of there way to help me. The interns Jessica, Omar, and another Gentleman were also super helpful they came in with a smile and made ya feel comfortable they were here to help. I had a team of infectious disease doctors that were always talking to each other and evey one was awesome. The experience I have received at Princeton Vs any other hospital I have visited is night and day. This hospital is great the people are great and thats what makes it. Im writing this to thank greatly all of the tech that worked so hard while I was there. Thank you for helping me you guys and gal are the best. Hopefully I wont be back anytime soon but if I have to this is where I will go. Thank you again to all the great people that took care of me you make this...

ER experience. Went in for severe left side pain. For some stupid reason they did an EKG and it was "abnormal". For 20 yrs my EKGs are abnormal and a cardiologist back then determined that abnormal is my normal. So now they did chest xray (why ?????). 4 days before I had been to my drs office and 1day before I had gone to urgent care. Both places thought I had kidney stone but urine test said no. So I figured going to ER they could/would do an ultrasound/ct scan of the area where my side pain was. No such tests were done. They did bloodwork (thought to find out about my kidney--wrong). Had the dr spent a few minutes talking to me he would have found out that my abnormal EKG is normal for me. So all those tests that I didn't need put me in the level 5 catagory which is the most expensive level. So I have tried many times to get them to fix this. All I get is a call from patient advocate Sharon to tell me dr made decision to do what he did. She works for hospital so of course dr is right. Personally I think had he spent a few minutes talking to me about the EKG we would not be here today. They had the nerve to put in my record that I presented with side and chest pain. I know where my heart is located and that was no where near where my side pain was. Still fighting with them as of this writing. Waiting for the form to fill out againt the dr. This is BS. Don't go to...