To the Editor:

Dear Mid Coast Hospital, you may provide some “technical” services to your patients that can be found at Parkview. But when I am at your facilities, I am a patient. When I am at Parkview, I am a person.

When I am treated at Parkview the entire person is being treated — body, mind and spirit.

I can’t just have one part of myself treated when I need to be treated as a whole person. I am on a mission to make sure the cancer I have fought so hard to be rid of never comes back. Please stop trying to force yourself on everyone in the community when you are not as of yet able to treat everyone.

Even my husband begged me to drive right past your hospital and insisted on going to Parkview while he was in the middle of having a stroke. He insisted he’d refuse treatment from you if I went there.

He had been to your hospital before for a routine surgery but upon leaving looked at me and told me though everything was done right he finally understood from a patient/personal point of view why I always insist on going to Parkview.

There is a difference, and though you treat patients well enough, you won’t understand this unless you have the need to be treated on a higher level than that and have experienced the difference.

Please Mid Coast, I’m working hard to stay healthy and alive. Stop being the local bully and let us have the health care we need to have available in this area that you can’t and don’t offer.

I’m afraid that your bullying is finally going to force your way into my health care where it does not belong. Time to appreciate the business you have and focus on what you have.

You don’t need it all. Do what you do well and leave all else alone.

Deborah J. Hannigan
Brunswick