Johns Hopkins Hospital

Cannot recommend this hospital for hip arthroscopy. Surgery had to be repeated by a more experienced surgeon.

I’m not sure what ^^^^ is saying but Johnshopkins rocks. They do have a paperless system which is called Mychart. They give you paper work every time you come because a lot of us patients are actually sick and things can change very quickly also we see various docs that aren’t in Hopkins and they want to stay abreast with any new symptoms or meds you may or may not be taking at the time of your visit. Ask questions ask questions is always important. If you live in DC and your insurance says send you to labcorp you don’t have to go to their lab go to one that is closest to you. Surgerys I would think anyone nows its 2 hours before just In case something may go wrong. I have been everywhere almost in this building and their other facilities in bayveiw and goodsams. Your illness and experience in any hospital is what you as the patient is determined to make it. If you tell yourself you just want to get out of there and not focus on how they can help you your missing the point of what they are truely there for. Am I chronically ill YES. But it will not get me down. Beleive me my docs SAVE MY LIFE EVERYDAY. They aren’t GODS but they try their best and as a patient I stay informed at all times through them and I do my own research by continuously asking questions every where I go.

Hopkins is great, if you’re desperate. Seriously, I assume that clinical trials patients get really good treatments here. If you have a run of the mill problem, like breast cancer for example, and you aren’t on your death bed, the care basically sucks. Here is our experience after my wife found a breast tumor by palpation:
Pro-​tip: make a copy of your paperwork the very first time you fill it out, and bring it to every appointment. They make you fill out paperwork EVERY time. It’s always the same thing.
As a note of warning, because this flat out amazes me, Hopkins is paper based still in the year 2015, and they seem to just repeat everything on their computers. They are NOT online and their systems are terrible.
Prior to surgery, they didn’t coordinate anything well. We had to make different visits to the crappy hospital (very run down, poorly trained staff) for blood draw, mammogram, and MRI. That’s a lot of trips and a lot of time.
The hospital sent the blood to two different labs, resulting in a double charge for genetic testing.
After genetic testing, they did two different genetic counseling sessions – we cancelled the second one. These cost $ 500 each and frankly, if you can read wikipedia, you don’t need them. I have a PhD in a genetics related field, far more training than the supposedly essential genetics counselors and MDs, and it was a complete waste of time and money. Again, these sessions were poorly coordinated so they required more visits, but we skipped the second one because by this point we knew how bad Hopkins is.
Surgery is a miserable experience because they make you arrive so early, have the most dingy, gross pre– and post-​op areas, require you to go up and down in elevators, charge for parking ($ 6), and have almost no food options. The cafeteria has only diet drinks. In fact, the only place you can get non-​diet drinks of any sort is in the «coffee shop» (which is basically a terrible convenience store, not a real coffee shop) which has mini sodas.
They do have free wifi in the waiting room. There is no wifi or phone connection in the surgical areas. The waiting room is disorganized and has three separate areas. It’s not clean, people are spread out everywhere, there’s hardly any electrical outlets, and surgeons just talk to families in the middle of everyone else so there is zero privacy. Basically it sucks. The chairs are comfortable but that’s about all I can say positive about this place.
After surgery, we were told to wait for two (2) months to see a medical oncologist. During that time, you can basically have cancer recurrence! This is not good medicine.
Our experience at JHU was generally miserable. There is no reason for this place to be this miserable, except that it’s mis-​run, it’s poorly kept, it’s just a shell of its former self as a leading research institution masquerading as at top tier hospital. They can afford to keep purchasing a Top Hospitals ranking, but they don’t actually earn it. Still, I will say that if you are in the Baltimore area, you probably don’t have a lot of other options. Medical care is terrible in the National Capitol region. So JHU might be your only option. If it is, I’m sorry.