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Today’s healthcare…WTF

This is completely true. I worked for 2 doctors about 10 years ago. The one sold his half off to the other cause he said with ACA you had to jump through hoops and had a million codes for billing just to get paid. They only get a small portion of the amount submitted and they have a lady that her full time job is just trying to get paid. The other guy that left started a drug rehab practice. He said that is great cause insurance pays the full bill as this type of services is covered by government funding State or Federal funds I don’t know.. Guess it’s guaranteed payment like the portion of section 8 housing…
Wow!
 
I've had some insightful lessons on this within my own experience. I used the local urgent care places for DOT physicals when I was an owner operator, and paying for them out of pocket. Twenty years ago, the docs were older guys winding down at the end of their careers, pretty sharp. Quality deteriorated over time, last visit I got a rookie who was a complete twit, I said no more, and started paying three times as much to have my primary care doctor certify me.

When my wife had neuropathy issues in both legs 20 years ago, local talent (covered by our insurance) recommended a procedure that would have partially paralyzed both feet. I got a second opinion from a nationally prominent neurosurgeon, he ended up doing minimally invasive nerve releases, with excellent results. He also charged $8000 for each procedure, and did not accept insurance, took a check up front.
Wow.
 
Some of these are private and don’t even take insurance. So you pay the bill in full and then YOU must try and seek reimbursement from your insurance.
I had a specialist for my wife's eye condition. His wife ran the office and always wanted her to pay the bill upfront. Claiming the insurance wouldn't cover it. I phoned the insurance company and they paid all of them. When I said I'd like to report fraud, they said what fraud, we have no problem with them. They didn't try to cheat them. After I didn't need him years later, I took a personal interest in making his life miserable. I won, and a few days later his wife was not allowed back in the office.
 
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Damn!!! So true in today's field of medicine. If ya ain't mega-rich and have the best facility available, today's healthcare sorts, are a Taco short of a Combo Plate when it comes to diagnosis and treatment. Surprised no X-ray or even a Tetanus Shot was administered. Plus if the patient isn't proactive in their own situation when it comes to fixing and helping them, in what they are experiencing, sometimes things are left untreated or diagnosed. Glad they finally got it fixed right and hope that your Friend will recover from all this. Still just boggles the mind these days...cr8crshr/Bill :usflag: :usflag: :usflag:
 
All I know is doctors didn't drive a Prius or Sonata when I was growing up. I wonder what happened to change that? It seems as if somebody figured out a way to relieve private doctors of a good portion of their rightful earnings and give it to an ever tightening pool of providers (bureaucrats) at the same time. F'n stroke of genius!

Ps. I found a doc who doesn't accept insurance but offers help recouping costs from my insurance provider. Old school, no BS. Calls at the end of his day to discuss my visits/results. Sometimes at 10pm. Freaked my wife out the first time, she picked up and thought he was calling with bad news. Just the kind of attention I was looking for. They know ME, not just my chart. Most heartening is that he (and his 2 like minded co-practitioners) have built their practice so they will be able to continue providing this level of care for future patients. Its not cheap but I don't mind spending less money watching after my heart than I do on Mag500's and BFG's.
 
So today I had to re arrange my afternoon cause a guy I gave a job to could not meet another guy to finish an issue with a gold fish pond on an estate my wife and I manage. I have been taking care of about 80 goldfish in a 150 gallon stock tank waiting to get them back in the 1400 gallon pond… Anyway last week he fell off a ladder and through a tree. A branch went through his fore arm. He rushed to urgent care, they nerve blocked it and cleaned out and up the wound and stitched him up then sent him home. A few days later his hand and fore arm is swollen like Popeye’s fore arm… He said he drained a quart of **** out of it. Went back they looked at it and he got a stronger antibiotic and they said all should be fine in a few days.. This morning he went the ER and he called me said it’s real bad that they are admitting him for emergency surgery and that he was getting sepsis. He sent me this this evening as when they cut open the wound again they pulled this out!!!! WTF?

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That must be a wooden branch that didn't show up in the X-Rays. :rolleyes:
 
They all get an F in penmanship!
I had a Doctor who didn't understand the difference between looking and touching....as evidenced by my first digital prostate exam.
She said she just wanted to have a look.... :eek: nek minute her wristwatch is chafing my colon. :lol:
 
I had a Doctor who didn't understand the difference between looking and touching....as evidenced by my first digital prostate exam.
She said she just wanted to have a look.... :eek: nek minute her wristwatch is chafing my colon. :lol:
Our GP for years was Dr. Woo. A cute little Chinese gal. She would snap the glove and say "you like Dr Woo. She have little fingers" :rofl: :rofl:
 
What caused the problem? Dumb *** fell off the ladder. Things went south after that.
 
Our GP for years was Dr. Woo. A cute little Chinese gal. She would snap the glove and say "you like Dr Woo. She have little fingers" :rofl: :rofl:
Mine had fingers like pork chops. :lol:

The German Doctor who did my second one said after he had finished...."I only vish my fingers were longer" :rofl:

I told him I thought they were long enough! :rolleyes:
 
Mine had fingers like pork chops. :lol:

The German Doctor who did my second one said after he had finished...."I only vish my fingers were longer" :rofl:

I told him I thought they were long enough! :rolleyes:
:rofl: :rofl:
 
So today I had to re arrange my afternoon cause a guy I gave a job to could not meet another guy to finish an issue with a gold fish pond on an estate my wife and I manage. I have been taking care of about 80 goldfish in a 150 gallon stock tank waiting to get them back in the 1400 gallon pond… Anyway last week he fell off a ladder and through a tree. A branch went through his fore arm. He rushed to urgent care, they nerve blocked it and cleaned out and up the wound and stitched him up then sent him home. A few days later his hand and fore arm is swollen like Popeye’s fore arm… He said he drained a quart of **** out of it. Went back they looked at it and he got a stronger antibiotic and they said all should be fine in a few days.. This morning he went the ER and he called me said it’s real bad that they are admitting him for emergency surgery and that he was getting sepsis. He sent me this this evening as when they cut open the wound again they pulled this out!!!! WTF?

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Damn that nucken' futs

it's like the DEI hires all over, not the best qualified people
not even in the Hospitals their doctors or nurses,
the 1 other place, other than #1 the military
you don't need to check the DEI boxes, that stuff needs to end & end it now
you need the most qualified people...

Hope the workload gets done & not too much hassle for you

good luck
 
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Should have got this guy to do it. I lost count of the number of bullets he got out of Matt Dillon’s body. No x-rays.
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What caused the problem? Dumb *** fell off the ladder. Things went south after that.
Yep **** happens sometimes… But that said what happened after getting medical help should of never happened.
 
They had the wound OPEN and cleaned it out or so they thought… Just crazy.
The Doctor examining must be short-sighted to have missed a chunk of tree that size. :rolleyes:
 
I had a Doctor who didn't understand the difference between looking and touching....as evidenced by my first digital prostate exam.
She said she just wanted to have a look.... :eek: nek minute her wristwatch is chafing my colon. :lol:
The watch was supposed to be the limiter!!!
 
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