Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hospital
Dr Cooney and Dr Ku I am familiar with. Both excellent skills in the RNY gastric bypass surgery. They perform sometimes 4 surgeries daily. Both physicians are sensitive and respectful to all their patients.
My surgery was at a local hospital where the surgeon messed me up so bad, he was going to let me there to die. My family insisted on second opinion which is how I ended up being transferred to Hershey Med as a trauma patient. Dr Cooney performed 4 surgeries within a 2 week period to repair the damage done to me. After a month in a coma, I woke to find out that Dr Cooney saved my life. My case was a first for that hospital, and the skills where definately there to save me.
In my opinion, the nurses were not very well educated about Gastric Bypass. Several tried to give me regular sodas, sugared ice creams, etc. They actually got annoyed when I told them I could not eat these things. Several nurses asked me to explain what a Gastric Bypass was... one nurse thought it was a heart bypass. Parking was horrible - my parents had to pay to park when they came to visit me, and the parking was very far away! I understand that they have stopped charging for parking now... guess my complaining paid off! HA HA