What is your Hospital like?

[Jack]

The worst thing about going to a big hospital is finding convenient parking and getting from there to the clinic. Then, if they ask me to go for an X ray or something it is another major hike.

[DuaneHart]

I go to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and also work there. Great place to work and a wonderful clinic and hospitals. I'm very happy with all the doctors I've got--Rhuemy, Cardiologist, Internist, Dermatologist, and Gastroenterologist. They all work together on trying to get my health back in order and are so far doing a grea job.

[jola57]

moyan, yes I'm back. It would be fun to meet. Next time I'm passing thru Langley i'll let you know.

[Luce]

I have two hospitals that I have to visit due to the unique way that Dorset Primary Care trust provide services. The first is Royal Bournemouth hospital and I visit this one most often, I was taken into A&E here and remain under a respiratory/thoracic consultant here. I also go here to have my blood tests and see my renal consultant who works for Dorset County Hospital but holds clinic sessions at Bournemouth.
However, because the County's renal facility is run from Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester (35 miles away) I have to go here for any day-patient care and if I needed to be hospitalised again I expect I would have to go back here.
This is mostly due to funding because although the same trust run both hospitals because my primary care is given by the renal team every procedure must be undertaken on the County hospital budget.

Both hospitals are reasonably new, only 10-15 years old I believe and the staff and facilities at each are both adequate and quite pleasant. Although both are located in very busy areas within their towns so parking is expensive and at a premium. Stupidly public transport is limited for both sites, I catch a bus to Bournemouth which is only every half an hour but this is mostly to avoid the parking nightmare and heavily congested roads around the hospital.
The only real way way to get to Dorchester is by car, otherwise it's an hour on the train and then a bus to the hospital, or a 20 minute walk uphill.

[Jack]

They have just opened the new building at the hospital I attend for Wegener's stuff - it is only around 20 drive from my house.
BBC News - First patients at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital

[Kimbangu]

I go to Ninewells, Dundee. It is huge, scary and is also a teaching hospital. They have a breezy confidence about their ability to treat Wegener's but they don't have a WG specialist there. Jack did you say there is a WG specialist in Birmingham? - I was asking about this in the Ninewells Renal unit. The doc said there might very well be Vasculitis specialists within the NHS but no WG specialists that he was aware of.

[Jack]

None of the docs at Birmingham has ever described themselves to me as Wegener's specialists, but there is a team that work only on vasculitis. Quite a lot of the literature I have read on Wegener's has come from the Birmingham group and I have seen reference to them in American publications so I guess they are well respected.

[pberggren1]

I thought that Savage and Bacon are Wegs Specialists?

I am going to try and take some photos of my local hospital and maybe even of the ones I go to in Saskatoon, the larger city I go to to see my Rheumy.

[Jack]

They certainly lecture on the subject so I'm sure they can be considered to be specialists in Wegener's, but since they run vasculitis research covering many different conditions ( What is Vasculitis ) I'm sure they would not be labeled so specifically.

[Sangye]

They're definitely Wegs specialists.