Patient-175
No Medical Care and None of His Prescription Medications for 8 days at Sunrise Hospital
Patient-175 went to Sunrise Hospital. Received very poor medical care, was given several dangerous medications, and was misdiagnosed. Patient was discharged. She went to a specialist. The specialist called 911 immediately, and said the patient should NOT have been discharged from Sunrise Hospital. The patient has now been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and is permanently disabled.
My mother was admitted to Sunrise Hospital in February with the most severe abdominal pain she has ever had in her life. She was also shaking uncontrollably.
I could not get the doctor or nurses at the standalone ER at Boulder's Edge to understand that my mother has NEVER had shaking from anxiety in her life and her pain threshold is unbelievably high. They insisted she was shaking from anxiety.
She was taken to Sunrise Hospital after being admitted. They loaded her up on lorazepam, oxycodone, morphine, and hydralazine. It was very difficult to get any updates whatsoever on her.
They stopped her lamotrigine (her most important medication), as well as her other meds. It is also on her record that I told them every single medication she was on.
They had her bed alarms on because she was a fall risk. Her oxygen levels kept dropping, and she was placed on oxygen during her stay. NONE of this was conveyed to me.
We weren't even given discharge instructions except to "follow up with primary care physician."
I had to get 150 pages of medical records and notes from the hospital to see what all happened with her. They claimed she was just constipated, which I knew was wrong.
After seeing a gastroenterologist in town, which we waited 3 weeks for. At this point, she could barely move.
He said Sunrise should have NEVER discharged her, and he called 9-1-1.
She was taken to Southern Hills and with her tremors, confusion, and inability to walk, she was admitted into the neurology unit. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
The lack of dopamine had affected her so much of her peripheral nervous system that it had dysregulated her intestines as well, hence the extreme pain she was in.
She has since been reported as permanently disabled, unable to work within any capacity, and now has 2 physical therapists and a nurse coming weekly.
I don't like to throw around this term, because I feel it is overused in a joking manner, but the amount of gaslighting that was done by Sunrise Hospital and those affiliated is asinine. They had her believing she was just being dramatic for almost a month.
Another misdiagnosis!! Outrageously, Sunrise Hospital said the patient had constipation, but the patient left the hospital and went to a better medical office and learned she had Parkinson's Disease.
Patient-175 went to Sunrise Hospital. Received very poor medical care, was given several dangerous medications, and was misdiagnosed. Patient was discharged. She went to a specialist. The specialist called 911 immediately, and said the patient should NOT have been discharged from Sunrise Hospital. The patient has now been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and is permanently disabled.