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- From: tmr@faceplnt.dr.att.com (54626-RebmanTM(DR1867)000)
- Newsgroups: rec.windsurfing
- Subject: Re: Hood River Memorial Hospital
- Message-ID: <22959@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 17:18:10 GMT
- Sender: news@drutx.ATT.COM
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- Organization: Bell Labs, DCTT, Denver, Co.
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- Someone posted a couple of weeks ago requesting positive experiences with
- Hood River Memorial Hospital. I have been very busy and not had a chance
- to respond, but the boss is out this week so....
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- I paid an unscheduled visit last summer when I broke my ankle. I guess
- I've been pretty fortunate 'cause this was my first hospital/surgery
- experience (aside from the standard ER, stitches, etc.) The staff
- at HR Memorial were great, and it was, despite the circumstances, a
- good experience. The Orthopedist who did the surgery (2 screws) was
- Dr. Durkan. I'm very happy with the work he did. My ankle is
- completely back to full strength.. and in fact, it's pretty difficult to see
- a scar from the surgery... which has a downside in that, as one of our
- net.gods says, "chicks dig scars". Dr. Durkan is also an avid sailor --
- he has a waterproof pager and had to be paged off the water to see me --
- apologize again to him from me -- it was a 3.5 day. (Fortunately it was
- about 7:30pm when he got the page for those who were about to flame ;)
-
- I have to say that the best part of the whole hospital stay was that
- little morphine dispenser that they hook you up to after surgery. I'm
- thinking about getting a portable for office use. Oh yea, while I'm at
- it -- the first hospital I went to was (I think) While Salmon 'cause
- it was closest to Dougs. They were also excellent, but didn't quite have
- staff/facilities/experience to do the job so they sent me to HRM/Dr. Durkan.
-
- Hope none of you ever need to make use of this tip.
-
- -- Tom Rebman (tmr@drutx.att.com)
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