I have been attended to in CMC twice, once for a kidney stone and on another occasion for something minor. I have also visited, either as a patient or bringing someone for "medical treatment", so called "private clinics" and public hospitals in Nagua, Cabrera, Rio San Juan, Gasper Hernandez, Sabaneta, Cabarete, Los Charamicos, Maranatha, La Uni?n, Montellano, Puerto Plata, Maimon, Imber and some others I can't currently recall. What I have seen and experienced in these clinics and hospitals over the years can only be described as surreal. So when I state that CMC is "one of the better medical facilities on the North Coast", I speak from first hand experience. In comparison to 99% of the available facilities on the north coast it is exemplary.