Comments on: Tulare Hospital Board Discharges Entire Medical Staff

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By: let's be real

let's be real — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 05:44:07 +0000

The hillman clinic is just as bad as trmc. Doctors come in over an hour late and still see more than 4 patients in an hour, Dr kumar refers his patients to Dr Gupta and Dr chopra, chopra does that same as soodoes Dr gupta, they pass the patient around, 75% there is no need for it.
The staff that’s now running the clinics are also “yes sir” ! Staff, all they hire for office position are people that will never go against the doctors poor patient care.
Anita Paul Rn, Kathleen Campbell and new Rn. Have no idea on how to run a clinic, J CO should come in and test them . They never done floor care so they too become Dr kumars, Dr Gupta and Dr chopras “yes sir” staff.
Samantha Bland is the only person I know that strictly by the books and has no alliance with anyone.

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:38:49 +0000

Let start with the Prior MEC Dr Patel Dr Kanboj Dr Keseva Ext ext all need to be gone their main focus was not the patient or the staff it was focused on how to take down TRMC and that does not make for good practice. Yes they all hate each other and we the community and the employees are caught in the cross fire. ADVISE: if you want to hear the whole truth go to the court house and get the minutes then you will see everything the MEC was doing to prevent a safe environment and thank God for the dedicated staff all was well.

You are WRONG they have told the patients to go to other labs and diagnostic places to get work done and I have witnesses it first hand. Also, if Dr Patel want to come to hospital to see a patient he could other doctors do it all the time Dr Chiu Dr Kuo Dr Miyakawa ect So sorry for the person who mentioned he couldn’t come because of the Hospitalist LIE!

Next: read the California State reports about your neighboring hospitals even the Staff at KDDH says they have patient safety issues I know staff that has quit because of it.

Next: If you had Dr Zulim as your doctor you would be very lucky she is honest and just an all around respectful human being and if more Doctors were like here this would be a great world

Furthermore, the MEC Needs to move on I dare each one of you to take a lie detector test with question related the your mission for TRMC my family would be happy to pay for it. I personally know that Dr Patel has made some very serious remark to staff. And was reported for that. It is their responsibility to make sure things are running smooth and with numerous report from staff to MEC about a certain Doctor that needed to be gone and they ignored it. That is not in the best interest of TRMC.

It’s very hard to get rid of an MEC so with that said go get the MINUTES from the court house and read everything they were doing to destroy TRMC. Then if after that those are the type of Doctors you want taking care of you, MORE POWER TO YOU!

By: Personal Experience

Personal Experience — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:58:04 +0000

In reply to Susie.

My dad was a patient of Dr. Patel’s and his labs were always done at TRMC lab, so I don’t know where you are getting your information from. The only reason Dr. Patel didn’t get to see my dad when he was at the hospital was because they had some BS “hospitalist” doctor that saw the patients. However when I called Dr. Patel with concerns regarding them wanting to discharge my dad before I thought he was ready, he got involved and took care of it. In my experience, Dr. Patel has been one of the best doctor I’ve dealt with in Tulare. He always took the time to listen to my concerns regarding my aging father, and went to see him at Twin Oaks to address my concerns there as well.

By: Speakmymind

Speakmymind — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 03:13:40 +0000

In reply to Truth16.

Well stated, this is the first real article that has been well written. The last person who covered TRMC board meetings and other issues always favored the board members for the Voice