Regarding last night's Pres speech
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| Thu, 09-10-2009 - 9:07pm |
Something everyone should be aware of: in Pres. Obama's speech last night he mentioned a man who was denied insurance coverage for gall stones that he didnt even know he had - omitting an illness when applying. I am not sure if this is the same situation --- but when I decided to obtain copies of my medical records from various doctor's offices I had been to over the years .. one thing that stuck out at me was .. they lied about my visits. I have documentation where the physician actually handwrote items about illnesses or symptoms in my charts that I never discussed .. because I didnt have those problems. It makes you wonder if some physicians are in cahoots with the insurance companies to help keep their costs down. We know about doctors who defraud medicare or medicaid but I wonder if anyone has thought about the doctors out there who lie for a living by denying us treatment.

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"I get my 50 page file and start reading it and there is made mention of my surgical sight being washed with a certain drug/medication. So I go on the internet to explore this stuff. I discover that its original use was to stop adhesions in the surgical sight BUT (and this is a big BUT) it was recalled because it causes myelin sheath degeneration. There had been a class action lawsuit about it, which I missed out on and am too late for. But it finally explains so many of my issues."
Are you sure you are too late?
Hello, haven't seen much of you around here lately!
My mother and this doctor had some kind of sick relationship... insofar as she took many, many pills while seeing him, she refused to stop taking my little sisters to him (even after I had heard that it wasn't the first time he'd touched girls inappropriately, and pleaded with her not to keep taking them there.
I've been wondering about you.
"present cancer situation"
I was wondering too.
Before HIPAA, records were often considered to be the property of the medical provider.
When I was pregnant with my second child back in the early 80's, decided that I did not want a rehash of the hospital experience of my first child's birth (even though his Apgar score was almost perfect, and I was in good shape, they took him away from me to "clean him up and stabilize his temperature"). Went looking for a certified nurse midwife, found one and requested my own records from the obstetrical organization which had seen me in the first pregnancy and in the early days of the second. They didn't want to give me my own records. Said the notes were theirs. I don't recall whether they eventually gave me a copy or not.
When a patient is so little regarded that she is patronized, I am sooooo outta there! Found a CNM, found a hospital and backup physician, and gave birth to my DD at home with no medical interventions (and just about no nurse midwife either since the labor went quickly when I was free to walk through contractions).
I don't implicitly trust doctors or medical staff to always have my best interests at heart. They serve as my consultants--and the final informed decisions are mine, not theirs, to make.
Jabberwocka
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