To the Editor:
For well over a year I have tried, without success, to enter the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital Center for Pain Medicine. Care should not be this hard to access at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital.
Three times I sought referral through my primary care physician. Nothing came of it.
I left a message on the Pain Center’s phone. No call back. I stopped the center’s manager in the hospital hallway and told her my story (surgical accident at Brigham whacked off too much left leg, causing chronic pain). She made a lot of sympathetic noises and took my telephone number, but failed to follow up.
This is beyond rudeness. This is beyond arrogance. This is bad medical practice.
Anne Ryall Sylvester
Oak Bluffs