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Old 07-04-2007, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Boulder, CO
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What is the trend to the Las Vegas bad healthcare? It seems people speak bad of Doctors. Are they just not paid enough? To young? I need some answers!
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Old 07-04-2007, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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What is the trend to the Las Vegas bad healthcare? It seems people speak bad of Doctors. Are they just not paid enough? To young? I need some answers!

My personal experience in the year that we have been here is not so much that the doctors are bad, it's just that there are not enough of them. It takes a long time to get in with a specialist and most of them are so overworked that when you do see them they spend 5 minutes with you and pull out a prescription pad. I have kids and going to the pediatrician is a total nighmare. I am on my third office and I finally realized that it doesn't matter what peds doc you see, an appointment means absolutely nothing. I would, however, steer clear of the UMC Urgent cares. I have gone to two different ones for different reasons and the staff and docs are just plain rude. You can find a good doctor here, you will just have to plan on taking the whole day off of work, not just the morning or afternoon. By the way, if anyone has had a different experience I would love to hear about it. Even though I really like my doctor, I am getting tired of waiting 2 hours past my appointment time to see her.
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Old 07-04-2007, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Boulder, CO
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I wonder why there aren't more doctors here then, it seems as if the demand is high for them, the pay would be better. I would figure for a place with such money, attractions and people flooding the area there would be more and more doctors to fill the demand.
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Old 07-04-2007, 01:16 PM
 
Location: NW Las Vegas - Lone Mountain
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What is the trend to the Las Vegas bad healthcare? It seems people speak bad of Doctors. Are they just not paid enough? To young? I need some answers!
You hear lots of things about Las Vegas particulaly on Net lists....

"Crime is bad"...it is not. For a city of its size it is in the middle.

"Schools are terrible"...they are not. They are about par for the course for a southwestern city. Does pay teachers badly ( a southwestern custom). But mostly that leads to a shortage of teachers in the weaker schools.

"Medical care is awful" No it is not. Very much the same as say a suburb of Los Angeles (which it is to some degree). Lacks the population neccessary to support a world class medical center. But perfectly OK for most things. I would leave town only for open heart surgery and some limited specialty care.

"Transient population" Not by any numbers I know of. They come here and stay. Turnover is about the same as similar sized cities. This one is widespread but does not appear to have any foundation.

It is simply a large southwestern city whose principle industry is the entertainment of tourists. The nature of the engine has only minor impacts on everyday life and some of those are positive.
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Old 07-05-2007, 12:42 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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My personal experience in the year that we have been here is not so much that the doctors are bad, it's just that there are not enough of them. It takes a long time to get in with a specialist and most of them are so overworked that when you do see them they spend 5 minutes with you and pull out a prescription pad. I have kids and going to the pediatrician is a total nightmare. I am on my third office and I finally realized that it doesn't matter what peds doc you see, an appointment means absolutely nothing. I would, however, steer clear of the UMC Urgent cares. I have gone to two different ones for different reasons and the staff and docs are just plain rude. You can find a good doctor here, you will just have to plan on taking the whole day off of work, not just the morning or afternoon. By the way, if anyone has had a different experience I would love to hear about it. Even though I really like my doctor, I am getting tired of waiting 2 hours past my appointment time to see her.
That's funny. I have been wondering if we maybe have too many doctors, or if they are just getting more efficient. I seldom go more than a month or two without seeing a doctor of one kind or other. I've noticed in the past year or so that I seldom ever have to wait anymore unless I go to Quick Care on a weekend. It worries me that my doctors don't seem that busy. I don't want to see any of them leave for lack of business. My kids are grown up and I haven't needed a pediatrician in years, but I'll ask my daughter where she takes the baby.

We have good doctors here. We have plenty of hospitals too. The hospitals are mostly well equipped but they are lacking in some things that you might have to go to LA for. But that's normal. You can't be all things to all people. I think we have pretty good cardiology care here but they don't do transplants and a few other dangerous procedures. I've had triple by-pass surgery at Sunrise. I also had an ICD put in there, and when I need certain procedures I go there because they are the best for heart care facilities, and that's the only hospital where I my electro-physiologist does his thing. I have also been in UMC a few times and they take good care of you too. I went to Mountain View a couple of years ago under lights and sirens and spent nine days. I wasn't feeling warm and fuzzy thoughts at the time about the facilities. I'm not impressed with Desert Springs or Valley at all. The overall problem with medical services here is that the town grows too fast to keep up. That and the medical field isn't training people fast enough so that there is a shortage of good people all over the country. I thought it was kind of funny when my cardiologist sent me to Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills to see one of the world's most renowned cardiologists who happened to be a friend of his. The doc down there wanted me to have a test that even Cedars Sinai didn't have the equipment for, so I had to go down the street to a private lab. Dr. Shah, the doctor there, just shrugged and said even he has trouble getting one of the best hospitals in the country to spend money on equipment that they need.

I have always heard that the reason for so many cardiologists here is because of the number of tourists that play too hard and suffer heart attacks from drinking and staying up all night.
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Old 07-05-2007, 01:38 AM
 
Location: South Strip, NV --> Philly (Fall 2009)
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Desert Springs is awful, we know 2 people that died from there in their care and 1 person who has come in and came out much worse, she then went to St. Rose and did very well...
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Old 07-05-2007, 03:48 AM
 
Location: Somewhere.
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I have a different take on the doctors here, but i do agree with 5kings, all they do is spend a few mins and write prescriptions, of which i toss in the trash when i leave. Idiots.
Ive yet to find a doctor that i totally click with, most do not listen to you, they have an agenda, and that is to push the meds on to you, because that's how they profit. blah blah blah. lol

5kings, want to not ever wait again for an appt? Be the first one of the day. That's the only way. But shhhh, don't tell anyone.
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Old 07-05-2007, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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I'm fuzzy on details but I remember watching a news story a few weeks back. Said something to the effect that the new graduating docs here have to do their internships elsewhere for specialized care as it's not offered here in most cases. What happens then is that they end up staying and working where they do their internships.

UMC is supposedly trying to fundraise to re-devlop their health sciences departments to keep graduating docs here in the valley.
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Old 03-16-2015, 04:40 PM
 
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Angry total insanity

I came here from Texas and I guess I just took good medical care for granted. It never occured to me I'd have such a horrendous experience with medical care as I have had in Las Vegas.
I had found a dr that I started to use when I first moved here and on my second follow up appt due to the fact I was new to this area I got lost trying to find the office. I had left early enough so I called ahead for directions. I showed up 5 minutes late and the receptionist informed me I had lost my appointment because I was late. AND I HAD CALLED AHEAD FOR DIRECTIONS!!

I was so irate that I found a new doctor. I should have stayed. The new doctor takes forever to get an appt with and you CANNOT get anyone to answer the phone or return a message. I've physically gone into the office three times to just get simple questions answered and each time is at least an hour long. Messages or requests just fall into a black hole.

I've had to see a specialist too and it's even worse to see him. It's a minimum of 3 months in between appointments. FOR FOLLOW UPS!!!

I made an appt today with the original dr I had gone to but I can't get in until May 15th!!! It is March 16th today. It's just really hard to believe.
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Old 03-16-2015, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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I found a doctor I liked, and I had a LAUNDRY LIST to go over (I haven't been to a doctor in about 8 years). But, I'm over 40, so figured it was time to get a checkup. Glad I did. He found some things for which I should be concerned. But, overall, not TOO long of a wait, and very nice office. Maybe I found the good one
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