Being tidy and clean in a medical treatment room isn’t just for a show: it’s a necessary procedure to reduce health risks. There’s a reason there are biohazard bins, sharps disposal containers, and other means of keeping an area where patients are treated organized and sterilized. Unfortunately for one podiatrist patient in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, their care room was anything but “cared” for. A sharps box was overfilled with used syringes, medical gloves hadn’t been disposed of, and plenty of medical equipment was in absolute disarray.
Needless to say, the patient wasn’t too pleased with the sight they saw after entering the treatment room. “Just spent $125 to be seen by a podiatrist. Walk into the patient care room and see this…” they groaned, posting the horrific photos of the clinic on r/mildlyinfuriating. Affording medical care in the States is tough enough, but dealing with unkempt clinical establishments after paying a good chunk out of pocket is another level of frustration. Everyone else in the post’s comments felt the same: the place should be reported ASAP.
“That’s a big red flag. I’d report them to your state’s medical board. Make sure you include these photos,” suggests a Reddit user. “This is completely unacceptable and malpractice,” remarked a second, claiming that they would have sent the pictures to the State Medical Board, left a negative Yelp review, and uploaded the photos to the clinic’s reviews on Google. “Pretty sure it isn’t ok to do that with sharps,” added another. “There’s multiple laws being broken, that’s for sure,” chimed in a fourth.
But wait, there’s more: OP also claims that there were “open scalpels laying on the floor,” too, as if what was in the photos wasn’t horrific enough. Shockingly, they claim the Philadelphia clinic has 4.8 stars on Google, which is very suspicious, considering multiple patients would have also seen the house of horrors that was the podiatrist’s treatment room. They ended up telling their primary care physician about the incident, but the doctor told them to go back next week, disregarding the health safety hazards.
