Davies Medical Center
Category: Health and Medical [Edit]
Neighborhood: Castro45 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94101 (415) 600-3395
- By Appointment Only: No
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8 Reviews for Davies Medical Center
My roomie got a little enthusiastic when she was cutting a tomato and wound up slicing off the tippy-top of her pinkie finger as well. I was at a bar nearby when she called with her one good hand. She was in need of a companion for a little jaunt to the emergency room. Was this truly an emergency, though? Read on.
So it was her idea to just walk to the hospital (Davies) a few blocks away, and it was my brilliant foresight to quickly grab the essentials for this trip to the emergency room: a book, a magazine, and a box of thin mint Girl Scout Cookies. All of these items would prove useful through the course of the evening.
It was a really mellow night at the ER, and the staff did a great job at staying calm and managing all the impatient folk with "emergencies" that simply couldn't wait another second. "Owww, doctor, I have a hang nail!" I have always had tremendous respect for health care professionals which was confirmed by watching everyone working at this ER demonstrate tremendous grace and patience.
Anyhow, we only had to wait an hour and they cleaned and bandaged her wound with care and precision. She really didn't cut it that bad, and the vibe we got from the doctor was that we could have treated it at home. Did we really need to go to the ER? He didn't come right out and say it, but I deduced it from what he told us--which is what I'll close with.
"By coming to the hospital, you've actually INCREASED your chances of infection."
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No one likes going to the ER - but if you have to go in SF and have a choice, go here.
This place is awesome. The best medical experience I've ever had. I went in at midnight on a Thursday because I thought I had appendicitis. Will and Dr. Friedman took excellent care of me. They were extremely competent, compassionate and all around amazing.
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Dear Mom...
Ill make it short and sweet.
Pouring rain + my bike + MUNI tracks = Me with "severe muscle trauma" and contusions on my ribs, bump on the noggin and my fucki....im sorry ...effing hip is goddamn killing me.
Once i get off the Vicodin, i will tell you about the amazing Paris Hiltonesque treatment i got (no, i didnt get an STD) from the folks at this amazing medical institution. Super professional, super sweet ( i think they thought i was Reese Witherspoon) and i was in and out of the ER in TWO hours.
That is what i will do once this delicious fuzz in my head has washed away.
I will also try and rationalize how this was as sweet as that time i was three and smashed my clavicle against a tree stump barreling down the hill on my "Tie Fighter" (my tricycle), and i was more upset the Tie Fighter losing a "wing" (wheel) and about my ripped Cookie Monster tshirt than i was about my own broken wing.
It will be at that point that i pop another Vicodin to prepare myself for the verbal smackdown i will get for PROBABLY not wearing my helmet or MAYBE not being careful.
But again Moms, they took care of me im ok.
They gave me Graham Crackies with my painkillas and Motrin.
Ill call you tomorrow.
Love,
Mickey,
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One, two, three steps, and I lurch forward, face first into a cement platform.
Blood gushes out of my mouth, onto my tutu and sweatshirt.
Did I lose a tooth?
Felt like it.
Anyway, friends took me to Davies, at my request, and can I just say they were amazing? Okay, so my doctor was hot. But seriously. They were really nice, prompt, literally took care of me as soon as I walked in.
What ER does that?
So I'm not missing teeth. =D
Annnnd, their Women's Care is pretty awesome as well. They're super-friendly also, and totally make you feel comfortable.
Okay, so UPDATE--27OCT07
So I finally went to the doctor's appointment that I was supposed to have gone to in April or May.
Yeah, I'm a shitshow like that.
I finally met my vampire doctor--errr the nurse is actually more of the vampire--requesting NINE vials of blood to be taken from me.
But anyway, my doctor is AWESOME.
And I HATE doctors usually.
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Had a CT scan here last night, along with a bunch of other crap.
These are THE most amazing people.. the nurses and my doctor, Dr Serrann, were so nice. I wasn't gushing blood, but they still gave me urgent attention.
Not the MOST fun I've had on a Thursday, but the percocet is nice.
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I had a CT scan here this morning. Everyone was professional and friendly, and extremely helpful.
Zero stars for barium, though. Yuck.
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This is the Castro street campus of the California Pacific Medical Center which is a Sutter Health facility. I'd like to find out what it is that they do to make their staff so apparently satisfied that no matter where you go, from registration to any medical procedure including surgery to the cafeteria staff that makes everyone so friendly.
They have an internal rating system they strive for: Level "5", which is called VERY GOOD. Brilliant of them not to label it EXCELLENT, because, in rating things, excellent is pretentious.
Anyway, everyone is polite, friendly, helpful, considerate and eager to make being a patient as pleasant and painless as possible. It's amazing.
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