I’ve spent a lot of time I hospitals because my nephew the last time was a week before the pandemic until 45 days later. They claimed it wasn’t his appendix but a Crohn’s flare and the surgeons and gastros started fighting. The surgeons wanted to send him home with antibiotics and prednisone, the gastros fought for three days finally a new ct scan and his appendix had ruptured. His main gastro is amazing and had to bring in a special radiologist to read a scan from 2 years before and compare it to the first ct they took on day one to prove to them it was an appendix issue before they’d allow the new ct scan on day three when the discovered it was ruptured. They finally did surgery but his abdominal cavity was already infected and full of fluid, he spent 40 days not getting better on antibiotics with threats of “there’s only 8 rooms for regular patients and the rest of the hospital is going to be filling up with dying covid patients and you might catch it and die also”. The place was a ghost town, never happened. 100’s of rooms empty. My brother finally called his insurance who sent in a expert and took another ct scan the 4th one and said there’s fluid in his abdomen and he still has an infection, you need to put in drain tubes. The surgical team claimed you don’t need drain tubes the fluid should reabsorb on its own. Then the expert went off saying every doctor or surgeon should know the abdominal cavity doesn’t reabsorb fluid, put drain tubes in and continue antibiotics. 5 days later he was finally home. He went in the first of March and came out the middle of April and didn’t fully recover his energy etc until august. I told his parents these surgeons were morons from the first time they came in the room, never the same one, each one had a resident with them, even the chief surgeon was a moron. He had a ct scan January 2018 this was March 2020 they’d come in and say he just had a ct scan two months ago that showed inflammation. Then you’d correct them and say that was from 2018 and 26 months ago and they’d just look at you and say “that doesn’t matter” yeah it actually does. They didn’t communicate or write it down in the notes so the next idiot surgeon who’d come in a few hours later would say the same stupid wrong date thing. After the second one I started being rude, I’d say if you can’t get a date correct and shrug it off why should we listen to anything else you have to say, is it what you’re currently saying correct or wrong? And then they’d leave. Of course they were wrong, all the threats and all they needed were drain tubes. Clown show. His gastro saved his life and has even prescribed stuff off label when he takes in a study for the gastro to read etc.