Carilion Memorial Hospital
I would like to elaborate on the poor rating for pain. For the majority of the visit it was good, but when I first arrived to my room after the surgery, I wasn't put in the system yet, so they couldn't release pain meds until that happened. The first evening, no one would let me walk, so I had excruciating pain in my back all night. On my last day, the morphine pump & pain injections were discontinued (which would have been fine), but when I requested my pain meds (at the time I was instructed I could request it) it took 1.5 hours before I received them due to a computer error. By the time I recieved it, I was crying from the pain and it did little assistance. Luckily, my surgeon came by and requested a shot of pain meds to help me with the ride home. It worked like a charm.