Fair W.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
At least 95% of the techs working there do a fantastic job; know what they're doing, totally professional, usually kind too. Doctors and nurses are a mixed bag though. Some do a great job, but not all. We had to go to the emergency room recently, and while waiting for a doctor overheard several complaining about "not having enough RVUs to make it interesting". For those who don't know, RVUs are Relative Value Units, and the more RVUs a treatment, service or procedure has, the higher the pay for whoever performs it. Reviewing the record for our visit afterwards, we saw that the provider (Dr. Simonson - one of those overheard earlier complaining about the RVUs) left out half the reason for our ER visit, listed a test as having been performed when in fact it had to be stopped immediately after it started because the patient was excruciating pain (despite having been given morphine), she 'didn't have time' to update the patient's medical record by listing a previously prescribed medication which could be a contributing factor, yet wrote an unrequested & unnecessary 'excuse letter' for a weekend visit, she claimed Houston Methodist doesn't have a diagnostic lab, patient had to do a Google search for an antibiotic that would actually work when the one sent back choked the patient and came back up, she made an inappropriate follow up referral. Houston Methodist used to be the best hospital in Houston, and it still has the best techs, but for actual medical services much of it has become or is becoming as sketchy as its competitors. Please don't go alone if you need emergency medical treatment, you probably won't get it if it doesn't provide enough RVUs. Speaking as someone who didn't.