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To: AuntB
As for our "social/health" services....they seem trained to only acknowledge and accept as valid claims things like obesity, "depression", ...

It's not just "social/health" services. I went to a private practice doctor, or perhaps I should say 'open practice', who was listed as a preferred provider under my wife's BCBS plan as a USPS mail carrier. I was there to find help for chronic long term back pain, toenail fungus and a couple of other chronic pain complaints. His first spiel was "the best thing I can do for you is help you quit smoking. I have drugs for that." He nearly choked when I said I had no intention or desire to quit smoking.

When I asked about my back pain he immediately asked me if I was depressed. I said no but he spent the next twenty minutes trying to convince me that I was depressed and again he said, and I quote verbatim, "I have drugs for that." I left and never went back. AFAIC he's a quack.

55 posted on 01/22/2004 1:54:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Regime change in the courts. Impeach activist judges!)
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To: TigersEye
I know that doctor!!!

Unfortunately. That's the one that saw me for 3 minutes, did no exam and then told Social Security that I had no problems except smoking. Just don't let any of them give you Zyban (wellbutrin) I now have permanent partkinson like tremors because of that!

57 posted on 01/22/2004 2:21:47 PM PST by AuntB (REFORM SS DISABILITY: http://www.petitiononline.com/SSDC/petition.html)
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To: TigersEye
When I asked about my back pain he immediately asked me if I was depressed. I said no but he spent the next twenty minutes trying to convince me that I was depressed and again he said, and I quote verbatim, "I have drugs for that." I left and never went back. AFAIC he's a quack.

Call your state's Board of Medicine, request a complaint form, and fill one out, explaining the simple truth: He refused to even attempt to treat you for your ailments, and instead attempted to practice politics on you. He'll be forced to take time out of his oh-so-busy-and-important schedule to respond to the state (and they could in theory launch a full investigation), and no matter how the matter is resolved, the fact that someone put in a complaint against him will be on his record FOREVER. (You can call your state BofM anytime and simply ask, "Has Dr. So-and-So ever had any complaints filed against him?" This is often a good thing to do anyway before seeing a new doctor for the first time.)

80 posted on 01/23/2004 10:21:36 AM PST by Timesink (Two fonts walk into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve your type here.")
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