twotoone18

Hello Nurse 2481 This post is over a year old, but I must say that I really agree with you. I have no appreciation for the UCLA medical center/school as a former patient. The UCLA med school, to put it in simple words, is a larger government research institution. Their agenda is to create "innovative" medicine not focus on preventative care, which is worth more than all the $$$ that goes into their research. When I had my appointments at their medical center, the doctors would fly in and out of the room, never lasting more that 3 minutes. I would ask them what was the source of my problem and how it could be cured without medication. As always, they dodged my questions and ran out of the room. What they wanted was for me to come back in three months to see how the medication was working. This would have been fine for me, but each appointment would cost me close to $200 dollars. Not to mention the medicatin which was another $200. This dollar amount might seem minimal, but it was a lot for me as an uninsured patient. It seems that all of their medical education/agenda is based on prescribing ridiculously overpriced medication. I do not want to go on and on about my situation, but as a future nurse I would not attend this research institution that each time becomes more and more arrogant.