bad hospital experience

i debated on whether or not to post about this but i feel like i have alot of friends here who wouldn't judge me for something like this.

from the 19th to the 26th i was inpatient in the psych unit at uconn. i got admitted for depression. i was supposed to stay untill the 27th but signed myself out a day early because i was physically abused by a nurse on the unit. i reported her but i have a feeling nothing will be done about it because after the nursing manager told her i reported her she had this dumb smirk on her face all day and laughed about it with the other nurses.

i had to go to the ER after i was discharged (two days later) because of an infection that (surprise) i picked up on the less than sanitary unit.
they saw that i had been an inpatient and what unit i was on and i was treated like crap. the infection was in my upper arm (it started at an iv site that was never cleaned by the staff) and the doctor said he needed to feel under my arm to feel my lymph nodes. he felt under my arm and they started to move a little bit at a time to my chest until i had to tell him to stop and that he was being inappropriate. he just shrugged and didn't say anything.

i know several people who have had wonderful experiences at the uconn emergency room, people who say the doctors and nurses and cnas are really great.
why is it that if you've been to a hospital for a problem like depression, the staff from the rest of the hospital thinks it's ok to treat you like you're less of a person?

i went there voluntarily, and i'm treated like this as a result?

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im so sorry you had to go thru that, abs!

it's not even the infection i'm the most upset about. it's how i was treated.

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Yeah, I understand that, but to develop a case you need all the evidence you can get.

Use your PC to google reported incidents like this. You need to find out which ones went to trial and who the winning prosecuting attorneys were. No joke. You're not the only person who was treated this way and they need to find other patients who had the same problem and get them to agree to testify in court. You can't do this on your own but an attorney's office with experience in this kind of litigation will know where to go with it.

There's strength in numbers. You can't do it on your own because if you try, their experience and reputation will mean that they'll always win.

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TOTAL threadjack, Part II - I'm getting better but my laptop has completely died. I just got this new laptop and there's something screwy in it that's driving me crazy - but at least I can finally get on.

Returning the thread to sweet Abba and her serious problems.

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Also: check to see if UConn has a patient advocate. It's that person's job to make formal reports within the hospital admin. Write letters also to the pres & reps of the board of directors of the hospital.