Dr. Eladio M Chatto JR., MD

Refused to treat me, illegal and I'm currently looking for representation.. gave him a month to apologize for how he behaved, he didn't and now I will find an attorney. Be careful if you got a fever and a cough he won't even let you out of the ambulance, let alone the emergency room.. oh yeah the driver of the ambulance is getting yelled at too

I was refused treatment at a hospital, discriminated against because I had a cough and a fever and the attending physician, Dr. Chatto, at Hardin County Hospital in Rosiclare,Illinois not only refused to let me out of the ambulance into the emergency room (despite they had a procedure in place for possible COVID-19 Patient) and went as far to get in the driver of the ambulances' face yelling at him for being me to that hospital.. I felt lower than scum that day and all I wanted was to get some medicine for my lungs.. I did what you're supposed to do with sickness in this time, called the Covid hotline, talked to nurses and doctors on the phone and they determined I was low risk for COVID-19. I have asthma, matter of factly, Dr. Chatto diagnosed me with it when I was a child. I also ended up being diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and strep throat (Pneumonia reason for cough, strep reason for fever) and had to ride an extra 30 miles or so because one doctor who chose to take care of… sick people decided either my sickness was too much, or my life wasn't important. I was humiliated, who gets refused at a hospital for treatment? My mind said "Bad people." It was a day I truly felt sub human and the way the EMT were talking and the nurses at HMC you figured he would have just reached out to apologise which is all I wanted. I never heard from him though and my phone number hasn't changed. The director of nursing st the second hospital that was gracious enough to care for me, said he'd be paying my medical bills because it was illegal.. not about money to me it's just because he's an established doctor he thinks he's above me and the law and I won't stop until I know he'll never refuse another patient again.

Dr. Chatto is a very thorough doctor. I have been to see him on many occasions for several maladies. I'm very pleased.