If you only knew what lies beneath the surface... medical education, the left and VA hospitals... I swear if people saw the storm that’s coming in medicine...
I was an attorney for bankers who funded hospitals. My job was to find dirt, and boy did I. Next to government, health care would be the next major institution I do not trust.
Holy shit do consulting work for attorneys now. A lot got smart and hire us to go through charts for them. It’s crazy the level of incompetence since the Obama era level of doc. And nurse notes are worse, but where we find the bread and butter of mistakes. It’s great work for a semi-retired out the door doc who hates the system more than a lot of things. Because I lived what it was - and what it has become. A ripple that echoes society it seems.
But this is where we need each other like never before, young friend. I truly believe, in my heart that Gen Z will save America. I do. You see they have a taste of it. They have not just smelled the gravy of the stew we call America, but actually get to taste it. I think when it comes down to it - and I have been to the Middle East, Maghreb, a LOT so I know what they are up against, but that stew... maybe with a good Irish bread, ya know? What we have lived will be restored. It will. We just have to hang tight, keep regrouping and never giving up. God is watching us. Our every move.
Absolutely. This is gonna be long, but I truly hope it helps.
Mostly today, fortunately for nurses, most of it is all point and click. But the actual typing part - I know when a nurse fucked the case almost immediately is after checking for spelling. Spelling errors lead to provable carelessness when I get you in the deposition stage. I look first then run every word through a spell check-medical-legal grade spell check with Latin, Greek, all the bells and whistles. Fucking up the spelling is the smoke. The fire is when I start reading and comparing orders written versus orders carried out. Good thing for you - you can’t get sued. The hospitals settle nurses cases. Whatever you do, no matter how much time it takes, check your spelling. By now you had a million classes on it, right? Because of lawsuits.
Next thing nurses get burned on is an example I get weekly. Nurse comes off one shift briefs nurse on next shift-and this shit happens in the ICUs of all places more than anywhere else, but the nurse will go and either not speak to the patient and document that they were awake when they thought the patient was napping and didn’t want to wake him or her. Vitals look good, looks comfortable, and maybe he was. But when someone inevitably walks in the door and the patient codes, well, are you gonna lie - and you are gonna get caught - or tell the truth? Either way you are fucked. Wake the patient up if the orders say to. Sometimes a doc may be concerned about something he or she hasn’t documented yet. Sometimes that doc wants you to see that patient visibly awake q whatever. I do it all the time in my practice practice. Just follow the orders to the letter, especially early on. Later when you get some salt you can move fast, but take your time.
And in I can go on and on and on but in the interest of time my third piece of advice is always be nice to the patients family. They usually tend to drop the lawsuits - and I see it first hand - when they like the nurse if it was the nurse that fucked the case. Almost across the board. It’s always “oh I really liked him or her, let us talk to our lawyer...” and that’s sort of in a way where it ends. Be cool wi to with them. You don’t have to be an ass kiss but if you see a family and someone doesn’t have a drink or at least offered a bottle of water or something... ya know what I mean? A jello, an ice cream sandwich for the kids. Shit you have access to. It goes a long long way. Let me know if you want any more tips, I am happy to help you out!
Yes, please take the advice. I really do wish you the best in your career. Right here on this board- There are many fine doctors and other medical professionals that - although I can and will only speak for myself, I am sure anyone wouldn’t mind fielding questions. Myself included. Even the ones you may feel embarrassed about. Like “why am I doing THIS???” You know- they are saying and ordering something and I don’t get the physiology — Any. Time. Believe me when I say everyone has been there.
In hospital someone added a zero to a dose of something I was given. (I just know it was a mistake because it felt 10x worse then when they gave it to me before) but my charts clearly say it was the same size dose. I just know it wasn't. That and no one moving me for 11 days in the ICU and the resulting sores (epidural is a wonderful thing and women no longer get to complain about the pain of childbirth if they have an epidural) All the nurses swore up and down "oh yes, we moved you ever few hours" nope immobile for 11 days in the ICU. Then....then there was the catheter incident at night and the nurse on duty ignored me and blew me off.....Nurse Judy, you should not be anywhere near the medical profession. Oh and the yanked IV's same nurse....
Attorney performing due diligence. You dig for skeletons that can cost your clients millions if skeletons aren’t found in time or you dig to find them to help a client with the skeletons disclose it in a way that won’t get them in trouble. The most serious stuff I found was in regard to health care workers who appeared to be intentionally killing people. Doctors and nurses who had histories of more than one person dying on their watch because they were up to something. It’s apparently pretty common.
To a family who loses someone, can easily say it was natural or “these things happen” and they go about their business like nothing more happened, but on the flip side where I sat, if you’re sitting in some conference room in a hot basement going through file boxes under attorney client privilege or confidentiality restrictions looking at the body counts in aggregate attributable to single individuals, it’s chilling. Depending on the client, if that info doesn’t get found until after a financing takes place, it could shut down the whole facility and borrowed millions would never get repaid or if found and disclosed recklessly, the facility would never get money for stuff at all bc of the litigation risk.
Also learning how bad the focus on money in health care truly is. You know they want to get paid but to see the strategies to maximize revenue in a healthcare facility was disappointing.
I could not agree more. At all. The web of money in the medical industry is simply mind boggling. Nobody taught me to go and hire a UR person to deal with insurance companies. Nobody taught me how to hire personnel and make payroll. Shit for years I was paying cash under the table to the rest of the staff for the longest time. It’s why private practice is the dinosaur. PAs do that shit now.
Literally got my LLC in 2014 as a Medical Consultant the day the VA offered me a bonus to take our guns which I cannot get into here only to say I like not even a little... but got the LLC, called my first lawyers office I saw on a billboard in traffic coming home, told them who I was and they had their PI check me out and that was that. My fee is per chart and per question when I write deposition questions. I LOVED patient advocate stuff but couldn’t retire on it. I kept giving away free time, so that’s what I do pro-Bono for a percentage of my time. You know... I am, after all, an American by birth and Southerner by choice. Real good gig. Have a book coming out on how to do it. For like, free, of course. The more of us doing it the more America benefits.
I was forced to clean and drill my own tooth because the VA dentists require covid testing to clean and perform work on my mouth but not to dig around in it and spot all the problems.I took care of all of it and realized I probably won't be going back anytime soon as I found out I'm better at it and when I do it I don't need anesthesia.
In a parking lot of a Harbor Freight because they had dental tools that weren't labelled as such. I find it ironic we are fighting the Chinese but are relying on their inferior goods to have beat them this badly.
Listen to me on this. I know you may know all this but for those who don’t know the whole doctor thing at the VA works-because most think they do but they don’t- almost every one you see in a white coat is in training. Either a resident-an MD but can’t fly solo, and 3rd and 4th year med students. You used to be able to tell them apart because the students coats were shorter than doc coats. But fairness... and that is my point. They are alllllll affiliated with a medical school. They have to be to get funded. Residents get paid via Medicaid. You don’t get the check through Medicaid but that’s who funds the GME office-the air traffic controller if you will, of med schools. You see a licensed MD around 11ish with all the kids. And the kids do all the work. I am a veteran and a doc who has been in the system. Alllll the docs come from a med school affiliated with a major university which has been churning out what for the last 20 years? Yup. Snowflakes who HATE the military. Alllllll leftists that despise you. It’s disgusting.
Makes sense on soooo many levels. The Portland Va has an indoor catwalk from the medical hospital to the va. The rotation rate for doctors is a disgrace, but considering this now I understand why.
I’m so tired of being experimented on.
Finding out the military made anthrax and then injected into us has really rocked me this month. They won’t allow me to see a doctor anyway without a mask. Never thought I’d be glad too be away from them. Sigh
I just wrote a huge thing and of course deleted it on accident. In a nutshell, most VAs are set up just like that. Now, when you go downstairs, in the waiting area, before Trump, did it remind you of a refugee camp? It did, right? That’s a joke to these kids. THE joke, I should say. There are good ones there, don’t get me wrong, but patients don’t see them. Rarely anyways.
I hate it when that happens! Thanks for summing up your forlorn lost post.
The waiting rooms shudders
When I had a good think on it, I think I’ve had three real doctors for my stay there, very specially and hard to get to. Once you got them you got a good set of care while you qualified. Learned a lot from my sleep specialist doctor. But some of the regular practice “doctorspeople” have been beyond cruel.
Matthew 24:12
“And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.”
The thing is - now the good ones are going to lay low like during the Obama years. Those media leaks were cleaned QUICK. I can’t imagine now-BUT there is hope. Nursing staff isn’t going to guide you but some people can. A few - here are some - The VA police. They know who says hello every morning and who won’t even acknowledge them. Let’s face it. If you are a doctor and you cannot say hello to the ONE group of people specifically there to protect them every morning is a shit head. That said. The barbers. All VAs have them-the larger ones anyways. They can tell you who the good male docs are (females don’t get their hair cut there). Kitchen staff. Again, if you cannot look a fucking cashier in the face and at least acknowledge that person-you are a prick. The ones that know their names, know the doctors names. 50% off all doctoring is straight up intuition. You RELY on training but after a while - half the time - you know the story. Again, if a physician cannot develop simple human interactions with those around them, stay away. Call me old school but that’s my advice.
First, Thank you for your service. Second, please, PLEASE be cognizant about being neutral there. They are looking. They WANT to send you for a psych consult. And yes, I am telling you point blank the bait was opiates and benzos. It was. Again, the level of disgust I saw at the VA’s (plural) I worked at was bad. Again, there are some docs that actually care. There are. But most are not there by choice and see you as a hassle. And those kids that were med students and in college under Obama are getting out of residency. Idiots that see YOU as the hassle. Now because of YOU who “voted for Trump (insert leftist excuse here) for the past four years”. They hate you. Now they are allowed to let it show. And it will. And not a fucking politician in the world will do a thing about it. Watch.
Find out how many are black in a few years. Look this one up-Obama took out almost every measure for blacks to get into med school. Their MCAT score is no longer considered. That’s what separates that general college population from the med school material.
It was happening well before zero. 15% of my medical school class got accepted with sub 50th percentile MCATs and that was the late 90s. Guess who was at the bottom of the class?
I’m not saying it’s all due to him one bit. I saw it start about 2 years after Clinton getting in in the ms-1 groups. But it was a steady increase. After Obama’s second term-from MY vantage point in our groups - exponentially. I mean, CLEARLY exponentially. But then again, I am in a smaller city now in the south, so it could be just this area. I could tell you the year the ms-1s - we all shook our heads and said “holy fuck it’s over”. 1995.
I am SO glad to hear that!!’ There were SOOOO many who were like”well, I don’t know -I don’t want to get caught - I say ok. Then don’t check the box. If you REALLY want to level the playing field - to cover white guilt-then check it and stand by it. Self identify at that time as blacks.
Where do you want me to begin. The best place to start is an old book called Medical Jihad or Jihad in Medicine. It’s very very real but laid low under Trump. There is so much and it’s just so crazy I really don’t think you would believe it. It’s SO crazy. I used to have a Twitter account back in 2011ish. Same handle-pissedlizard. Got the boot before Alex Jones, thank you, but back THEN they would monitor our Twitter accounts on our phones. I never figured out how the fuck they knew I was saying shit because I got a little popular with the old school shit posters. Not to sound condescending, quite the contrary. I LOVE you kids! LOVE love you all. So I talk to this IT guy who tells me - because I am cool with everyone - he tells me they see phone time on the server or some shit so I stop doing anything at work. But back then I was leaking shit on what I guess would be podcasts now. All the time. But it’s bad. Start there.
That’s the one! So basically, and again, this is out there, I have copies of emails I sent to different people that would talk about it later. So the name of the game for years, now again, I am typing on a phone and it’s late so this is nutshell BUT it’s all out there. The name of the game has always been to get your guns thru involuntary psych hospitalizations. The program itself was created by the head of psychiatry at USF and a VA psychiatrist who was. “Women’s Psychiatrist” - which really was a thing post OEF/OIF. Something polish the name. Anyway the deal was, start asking if they had guns in the home during the triage screening. It didn’t go over well - even in 2010-2012ish so they financially incentivized it. Not openly, of course but via bonuses written into the contracts. Now-I cannot and will not say if it was x amount of dollars per gun, because it was never discussed in MY negotiations, but I am a vet, ex enlisted who too the gun bill and went from there so, I think they knew my answer. BUT second hand - like from someone who has it in their contract confirmed it to me...TO ME. Please do not take this as anything other than it is. Second hand info on the internet. I’m not saying it’s false, I don’t want to open up a crazy can of worms if I am the butt of a strange joke everyone else was in on. So I don’t know for sure but that was the word so to speak. Fucking sick. So here we are today. Every depression screening what do they ask? Guns. To be continued because I am beat but it gets nuttier.
I remember back in the Marines in late 2009/ early 2010, when our SSGT said that we had to tell him how many and what kind of guns we have. Combine that with your rumors, the fact that there was a document talking about how veterans could be a major threat to the feds and there becomes a clearer picture.
Before WWII Medicine is not what it is now. The technology and knowledge, no matter how it was acquired, there were no modern “doctors”. Shit, some of us here remember as kids if you had a heart attack - it was a death sentence. Ambulances were station wagons with lights-literally. Doctors build specialties as Temples to look at in awe of what they built. That’s all it is.
I would refuse to sign a waiver in the ER, too. Or at least tell them that you need to run it by your attorney first, and that you can try to get it to them tomorrow.
There are some real good ones, it really depends on the hospital that does the hiring. There are some great GREAT ones out there. It really is sad that they stay away from larger teaching hospitals, where it’s ALL green eggs and ham. Again not to be “that guy” but even up to 20 years ago they were the places to go. The unions... did that do a number on them
More people need to stand up to corporate and governmental "orders".
It can be as simple as saying "no, I will not give you my phone number. Look bud, I'm just here for an oil change. You don't need my phone number to change my oil"
And they'll say: "but I need it. The system won't let me proceed"
They you say: "ok, just throw a bunch of zeroes in there"
Or you say: "ok then, do me a solid... Put YOUR phone number in there.
I say I don't give out my number, and they look at me like I have two heads. I'd never put it on tax forms. My accountant did, though, so I changed it and didn't tell him. Great accountant; zero perspicacity.
They cannot make you sign one of these to get emergency services. They cannot make you sign anything to get emergency services. A few years back I had to go to the ER, and they wanted me to sign a form agreeing to pay for whatever services the hospital decided to provide. I refused. I told them I wasn't signing a blank check, and if they came back with a form listing only the specific treatment(s) I was receiving, I would sign. The form lady never came back.
My personal anecdote about medicine. I'm fat. I went to doctor to see if anything was medically wrong. Got bloodwork. Everything fine. No one says "you need to lose weight". Get referred to weight-loss doctor after I specifically ask for a referral. Go to weight loss doc. He wants to measure my metabolism with some expensive fancy machine. Gets report and says "whow, you have a high metabolism". He is basically a keto salesman. I say, "I already have done keto diet in past." He has nothing more to say. Wants to follow up in 30 days to see how I'm doing on my keto diet after he hands me a one-page sheet on how to keto. No, thanks.
Also have snoring problem. Go to sleep specialist. They make me do overnight test with expensive "sleep monitor". Hand it in. Report says "you have minor sleep apnea." I say "OK now what?" They don't say "lose weight", which is the best answer. They say "you need a CPAP." I say, how much is that? And they say, it depends on which one you need and I say, how do I know? And they say "you have to come into our sleep lab and sleep there all night and then we'll know" and I said, "Uh...no, thanks".
I am losing weight, and I bought some nose things that hold my nostrils open at night. Very little snoring, and the weight loss helps me feel better, and is reducing my sleep apnea.
I had the same experience with a sleep doctor. He tried to put me on an APAP machine because my apnea was "too complex" for a mere CPAP. Turned out he had some involvement with the manufacturer. He might have actually designed the thing, but I forget. My actual problem was severe insomnia. Forget about waking up due to sleep apnea, I wasn't able to fall asleep at all. He never addressed that issue, partly because he would only see me for 5 minutes (after I waited an hour past my appointment time) in order to give me another referral to the sleep lab. I'm a little too high trust, so it took me a few times to catch on.
His APAP machine was recalled a year later. I don't know why it was recalled, but the sleep lab sounded very worried when they called me to ask if I was using it.
Yeah, it just so clearly felt like a racket to me, and their only suggestion was to go to their sleep lab and to buy a CPAP machine. Instead of, you know, telling me to lose weight, which was the cause for my sleep apnea. Part of it is all the "STOP SHAMING FAT PEOPLE" nonsense, but a medical professional, I thought, had an obligation to address the true problem and to give you good medical advice. It seems that even there, tip-toeing around fat people's feelings is more important than helping people.
I would even joke about being fat and they would get really uncomfortable and either change the subject or just say "No, you're fine". Bitch, I'm morbidly obese on your little BMI chart! WTF?
God blessed me this year when I happened upon a tea at the health food store by accent. It’s called ‘Pu’erh’ tea (disclaimer it’s old Chinese herbal fermented tea. I didn’t know until I looked it up after trying it) I tried the tea and it reduced my appetite naturally in a really wonderful way. Food was more tasty and I didn’t want as much to feel satisfied. Down 20 lbs, an inch or more of stubborn belly fat on about a half a glass a day. It has caffeine naturally so be aware and compensate if you already intake caffeine. A good morning drink. I buy it from a healthy organic store in their dry goods and tea area. Hope that helps and that you might find use as I have. (Personal referral, not an attempt at medical advice.)
It was loose bulktea. I will have to check the company that was on the label next time we pick some up. Sry I don’t have the info yet. I will try to remember to recover it for you.
Thank you for the recommendation. I recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, and this is my first Great Lent, which includes pretty intense fasting. The fasting and the extra prayers really seem to be helping me to get my gluttony under control.
I drink green tea through the day at work, so I'll look for what you recommended and try it out. Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience with me.
You’re welcome. If you like green tea, with the caffeine these may not be quite a 1:1 replacement. Listen to your body. God is so good to us, loving us and providing for our improvement and our desires to be better versions of ourselves. May God bless your efforts. I know this provided a relief for me, I pray it will also make life easier and more enjoyable for you. God is good, give Him everything and you won’t regret it!
Remember if your superfasting, come back in gently to food or you can shock your system.
It says CONSENT right there, you just have to read it.
What really rattled me about that is where it says you consent to have your medical results sent to the government so they can monitor you and make sure you are wearing a mask, going into isolation, and getting treatment. Good job not leaving the form blank so they can forge your signature.
It's the new android update POSSIBLY - they did something new where it fucks all my photos. It used to autorotate them when they knew orientation was different. Now everything is sideways. I change it in the gallery, and it still uploads the WRONG way.
It’s not your fault. It’s an issue the phones are causing to stifle our progress (my opinion) sometimes using a host for the image helps me. Maga.host is a good one, though I still have trouble that way sometimes too.
Same thing happened to me at my dentist. I went for regular teeth cleaning. I refused to sign. They said it was required to perform cleaning. I walked out and told them i would NOT CONSENT TO TYRANNY. ridiculous.
"I voluntarily agree..." is not mandatory, in spite of what a retard who doesn't know how to read or is too job-scared to question her boss says about it.
So, clinics and hospitals cannot deny care based on ability to pay. So you have to consent to nothing ever. And p.s. if you should always always go to a hospital ER and demand a plastic surgeon for non critical sutures. ER doctors are the public school lunch ladies of food service.
Doctors are part of the new gestapo.
If you only knew what lies beneath the surface... medical education, the left and VA hospitals... I swear if people saw the storm that’s coming in medicine...
I was an attorney for bankers who funded hospitals. My job was to find dirt, and boy did I. Next to government, health care would be the next major institution I do not trust.
That's because government took over health care long ago.
And the foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation etc
Holy shit do consulting work for attorneys now. A lot got smart and hire us to go through charts for them. It’s crazy the level of incompetence since the Obama era level of doc. And nurse notes are worse, but where we find the bread and butter of mistakes. It’s great work for a semi-retired out the door doc who hates the system more than a lot of things. Because I lived what it was - and what it has become. A ripple that echoes society it seems.
Sent a wave of sadness through me, there are a lot of us I think, who lived what is was and are broken hearted.
But this is where we need each other like never before, young friend. I truly believe, in my heart that Gen Z will save America. I do. You see they have a taste of it. They have not just smelled the gravy of the stew we call America, but actually get to taste it. I think when it comes down to it - and I have been to the Middle East, Maghreb, a LOT so I know what they are up against, but that stew... maybe with a good Irish bread, ya know? What we have lived will be restored. It will. We just have to hang tight, keep regrouping and never giving up. God is watching us. Our every move.
I'm almost done with nursing school. Any advice concerning the nurses notes you've read?
Absolutely. This is gonna be long, but I truly hope it helps.
Mostly today, fortunately for nurses, most of it is all point and click. But the actual typing part - I know when a nurse fucked the case almost immediately is after checking for spelling. Spelling errors lead to provable carelessness when I get you in the deposition stage. I look first then run every word through a spell check-medical-legal grade spell check with Latin, Greek, all the bells and whistles. Fucking up the spelling is the smoke. The fire is when I start reading and comparing orders written versus orders carried out. Good thing for you - you can’t get sued. The hospitals settle nurses cases. Whatever you do, no matter how much time it takes, check your spelling. By now you had a million classes on it, right? Because of lawsuits. Next thing nurses get burned on is an example I get weekly. Nurse comes off one shift briefs nurse on next shift-and this shit happens in the ICUs of all places more than anywhere else, but the nurse will go and either not speak to the patient and document that they were awake when they thought the patient was napping and didn’t want to wake him or her. Vitals look good, looks comfortable, and maybe he was. But when someone inevitably walks in the door and the patient codes, well, are you gonna lie - and you are gonna get caught - or tell the truth? Either way you are fucked. Wake the patient up if the orders say to. Sometimes a doc may be concerned about something he or she hasn’t documented yet. Sometimes that doc wants you to see that patient visibly awake q whatever. I do it all the time in my practice practice. Just follow the orders to the letter, especially early on. Later when you get some salt you can move fast, but take your time. And in I can go on and on and on but in the interest of time my third piece of advice is always be nice to the patients family. They usually tend to drop the lawsuits - and I see it first hand - when they like the nurse if it was the nurse that fucked the case. Almost across the board. It’s always “oh I really liked him or her, let us talk to our lawyer...” and that’s sort of in a way where it ends. Be cool wi to with them. You don’t have to be an ass kiss but if you see a family and someone doesn’t have a drink or at least offered a bottle of water or something... ya know what I mean? A jello, an ice cream sandwich for the kids. Shit you have access to. It goes a long long way. Let me know if you want any more tips, I am happy to help you out!
Holy smokes thank you for the thoughtful advice!! Very very good to know. I would have never thought that spelling would be as big of a deal.
Yes, please take the advice. I really do wish you the best in your career. Right here on this board- There are many fine doctors and other medical professionals that - although I can and will only speak for myself, I am sure anyone wouldn’t mind fielding questions. Myself included. Even the ones you may feel embarrassed about. Like “why am I doing THIS???” You know- they are saying and ordering something and I don’t get the physiology — Any. Time. Believe me when I say everyone has been there.
In hospital someone added a zero to a dose of something I was given. (I just know it was a mistake because it felt 10x worse then when they gave it to me before) but my charts clearly say it was the same size dose. I just know it wasn't. That and no one moving me for 11 days in the ICU and the resulting sores (epidural is a wonderful thing and women no longer get to complain about the pain of childbirth if they have an epidural) All the nurses swore up and down "oh yes, we moved you ever few hours" nope immobile for 11 days in the ICU. Then....then there was the catheter incident at night and the nurse on duty ignored me and blew me off.....Nurse Judy, you should not be anywhere near the medical profession. Oh and the yanked IV's same nurse....
Like? How'd you go about it? What an interesting job.
Attorney performing due diligence. You dig for skeletons that can cost your clients millions if skeletons aren’t found in time or you dig to find them to help a client with the skeletons disclose it in a way that won’t get them in trouble. The most serious stuff I found was in regard to health care workers who appeared to be intentionally killing people. Doctors and nurses who had histories of more than one person dying on their watch because they were up to something. It’s apparently pretty common.
To a family who loses someone, can easily say it was natural or “these things happen” and they go about their business like nothing more happened, but on the flip side where I sat, if you’re sitting in some conference room in a hot basement going through file boxes under attorney client privilege or confidentiality restrictions looking at the body counts in aggregate attributable to single individuals, it’s chilling. Depending on the client, if that info doesn’t get found until after a financing takes place, it could shut down the whole facility and borrowed millions would never get repaid or if found and disclosed recklessly, the facility would never get money for stuff at all bc of the litigation risk.
Also learning how bad the focus on money in health care truly is. You know they want to get paid but to see the strategies to maximize revenue in a healthcare facility was disappointing.
I could not agree more. At all. The web of money in the medical industry is simply mind boggling. Nobody taught me to go and hire a UR person to deal with insurance companies. Nobody taught me how to hire personnel and make payroll. Shit for years I was paying cash under the table to the rest of the staff for the longest time. It’s why private practice is the dinosaur. PAs do that shit now.
Literally got my LLC in 2014 as a Medical Consultant the day the VA offered me a bonus to take our guns which I cannot get into here only to say I like not even a little... but got the LLC, called my first lawyers office I saw on a billboard in traffic coming home, told them who I was and they had their PI check me out and that was that. My fee is per chart and per question when I write deposition questions. I LOVED patient advocate stuff but couldn’t retire on it. I kept giving away free time, so that’s what I do pro-Bono for a percentage of my time. You know... I am, after all, an American by birth and Southerner by choice. Real good gig. Have a book coming out on how to do it. For like, free, of course. The more of us doing it the more America benefits.
I feel like I am navigating around land mines when I go to the VA. Got to play super neutral when talking to docs so they don't fuck me.
Not to mention the constant vaccine push
I was forced to clean and drill my own tooth because the VA dentists require covid testing to clean and perform work on my mouth but not to dig around in it and spot all the problems.I took care of all of it and realized I probably won't be going back anytime soon as I found out I'm better at it and when I do it I don't need anesthesia.
That's badass. Nice work.
In a parking lot of a Harbor Freight because they had dental tools that weren't labelled as such. I find it ironic we are fighting the Chinese but are relying on their inferior goods to have beat them this badly.
Why? I didn't have those tools at home.
Listen to me on this. I know you may know all this but for those who don’t know the whole doctor thing at the VA works-because most think they do but they don’t- almost every one you see in a white coat is in training. Either a resident-an MD but can’t fly solo, and 3rd and 4th year med students. You used to be able to tell them apart because the students coats were shorter than doc coats. But fairness... and that is my point. They are alllllll affiliated with a medical school. They have to be to get funded. Residents get paid via Medicaid. You don’t get the check through Medicaid but that’s who funds the GME office-the air traffic controller if you will, of med schools. You see a licensed MD around 11ish with all the kids. And the kids do all the work. I am a veteran and a doc who has been in the system. Alllll the docs come from a med school affiliated with a major university which has been churning out what for the last 20 years? Yup. Snowflakes who HATE the military. Alllllll leftists that despise you. It’s disgusting.
Makes sense on soooo many levels. The Portland Va has an indoor catwalk from the medical hospital to the va. The rotation rate for doctors is a disgrace, but considering this now I understand why.
I’m so tired of being experimented on.
Finding out the military made anthrax and then injected into us has really rocked me this month. They won’t allow me to see a doctor anyway without a mask. Never thought I’d be glad too be away from them. Sigh
I just wrote a huge thing and of course deleted it on accident. In a nutshell, most VAs are set up just like that. Now, when you go downstairs, in the waiting area, before Trump, did it remind you of a refugee camp? It did, right? That’s a joke to these kids. THE joke, I should say. There are good ones there, don’t get me wrong, but patients don’t see them. Rarely anyways.
I hate it when that happens! Thanks for summing up your forlorn lost post.
The waiting rooms shudders
When I had a good think on it, I think I’ve had three real doctors for my stay there, very specially and hard to get to. Once you got them you got a good set of care while you qualified. Learned a lot from my sleep specialist doctor. But some of the regular practice “doctorspeople” have been beyond cruel.
Matthew 24:12 “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.”
The thing is - now the good ones are going to lay low like during the Obama years. Those media leaks were cleaned QUICK. I can’t imagine now-BUT there is hope. Nursing staff isn’t going to guide you but some people can. A few - here are some - The VA police. They know who says hello every morning and who won’t even acknowledge them. Let’s face it. If you are a doctor and you cannot say hello to the ONE group of people specifically there to protect them every morning is a shit head. That said. The barbers. All VAs have them-the larger ones anyways. They can tell you who the good male docs are (females don’t get their hair cut there). Kitchen staff. Again, if you cannot look a fucking cashier in the face and at least acknowledge that person-you are a prick. The ones that know their names, know the doctors names. 50% off all doctoring is straight up intuition. You RELY on training but after a while - half the time - you know the story. Again, if a physician cannot develop simple human interactions with those around them, stay away. Call me old school but that’s my advice.
First, Thank you for your service. Second, please, PLEASE be cognizant about being neutral there. They are looking. They WANT to send you for a psych consult. And yes, I am telling you point blank the bait was opiates and benzos. It was. Again, the level of disgust I saw at the VA’s (plural) I worked at was bad. Again, there are some docs that actually care. There are. But most are not there by choice and see you as a hassle. And those kids that were med students and in college under Obama are getting out of residency. Idiots that see YOU as the hassle. Now because of YOU who “voted for Trump (insert leftist excuse here) for the past four years”. They hate you. Now they are allowed to let it show. And it will. And not a fucking politician in the world will do a thing about it. Watch.
I know a few people in the medical field so I have some idea of what lies ahead.
100% Right. 50% of medical students and residents are women. 50% of those aren’t working full time after 7 years, 33% not at all.
Find out how many are black in a few years. Look this one up-Obama took out almost every measure for blacks to get into med school. Their MCAT score is no longer considered. That’s what separates that general college population from the med school material.
It was happening well before zero. 15% of my medical school class got accepted with sub 50th percentile MCATs and that was the late 90s. Guess who was at the bottom of the class?
I’m not saying it’s all due to him one bit. I saw it start about 2 years after Clinton getting in in the ms-1 groups. But it was a steady increase. After Obama’s second term-from MY vantage point in our groups - exponentially. I mean, CLEARLY exponentially. But then again, I am in a smaller city now in the south, so it could be just this area. I could tell you the year the ms-1s - we all shook our heads and said “holy fuck it’s over”. 1995.
I was a MS-1 1998 in Texas. That was 3 years into it by your timeline and it was obvious then to a naive 21yo.
I am SO glad to hear that!!’ There were SOOOO many who were like”well, I don’t know -I don’t want to get caught - I say ok. Then don’t check the box. If you REALLY want to level the playing field - to cover white guilt-then check it and stand by it. Self identify at that time as blacks.
More info on the coming medical storm please.
Where do you want me to begin. The best place to start is an old book called Medical Jihad or Jihad in Medicine. It’s very very real but laid low under Trump. There is so much and it’s just so crazy I really don’t think you would believe it. It’s SO crazy. I used to have a Twitter account back in 2011ish. Same handle-pissedlizard. Got the boot before Alex Jones, thank you, but back THEN they would monitor our Twitter accounts on our phones. I never figured out how the fuck they knew I was saying shit because I got a little popular with the old school shit posters. Not to sound condescending, quite the contrary. I LOVE you kids! LOVE love you all. So I talk to this IT guy who tells me - because I am cool with everyone - he tells me they see phone time on the server or some shit so I stop doing anything at work. But back then I was leaking shit on what I guess would be podcasts now. All the time. But it’s bad. Start there.
Jihad and american medicine by adam dorin?
I bought a used copy off amazon for $15. Amazons not our friend, but we cant really rely on downloads and electronics, too.
Thank you very much, by the way, looking forward to reading it!
That’s the one! So basically, and again, this is out there, I have copies of emails I sent to different people that would talk about it later. So the name of the game for years, now again, I am typing on a phone and it’s late so this is nutshell BUT it’s all out there. The name of the game has always been to get your guns thru involuntary psych hospitalizations. The program itself was created by the head of psychiatry at USF and a VA psychiatrist who was. “Women’s Psychiatrist” - which really was a thing post OEF/OIF. Something polish the name. Anyway the deal was, start asking if they had guns in the home during the triage screening. It didn’t go over well - even in 2010-2012ish so they financially incentivized it. Not openly, of course but via bonuses written into the contracts. Now-I cannot and will not say if it was x amount of dollars per gun, because it was never discussed in MY negotiations, but I am a vet, ex enlisted who too the gun bill and went from there so, I think they knew my answer. BUT second hand - like from someone who has it in their contract confirmed it to me...TO ME. Please do not take this as anything other than it is. Second hand info on the internet. I’m not saying it’s false, I don’t want to open up a crazy can of worms if I am the butt of a strange joke everyone else was in on. So I don’t know for sure but that was the word so to speak. Fucking sick. So here we are today. Every depression screening what do they ask? Guns. To be continued because I am beat but it gets nuttier.
I remember back in the Marines in late 2009/ early 2010, when our SSGT said that we had to tell him how many and what kind of guns we have. Combine that with your rumors, the fact that there was a document talking about how veterans could be a major threat to the feds and there becomes a clearer picture.
I guess the public doesn't need doctors after all.
Before WWII Medicine is not what it is now. The technology and knowledge, no matter how it was acquired, there were no modern “doctors”. Shit, some of us here remember as kids if you had a heart attack - it was a death sentence. Ambulances were station wagons with lights-literally. Doctors build specialties as Temples to look at in awe of what they built. That’s all it is.
They always were. They didn't realize they were pawns in the war.
Nurses are their henchmen.
You do not have to consent and they cannot deny you treatment for failing to consent.
I would refuse to sign a waiver in the ER, too. Or at least tell them that you need to run it by your attorney first, and that you can try to get it to them tomorrow.
Amen!!!
Nurse: "It's not a consent form but a waiver".
Literally the first fucking line: "Informed CONSENT"
all nurses will be inducted into forced reeducation camps or will lose all their licenses and they will be replaced with your cell phone.
edit: they will do anything to keep their licenses include pretend that covid is a real threat
Not if the ones I worked with are any indication. Woke and without the brains God gave a goose.
There are some real good ones, it really depends on the hospital that does the hiring. There are some great GREAT ones out there. It really is sad that they stay away from larger teaching hospitals, where it’s ALL green eggs and ham. Again not to be “that guy” but even up to 20 years ago they were the places to go. The unions... did that do a number on them
Good on you.
More people need to stand up to corporate and governmental "orders".
It can be as simple as saying "no, I will not give you my phone number. Look bud, I'm just here for an oil change. You don't need my phone number to change my oil"
And they'll say: "but I need it. The system won't let me proceed"
They you say: "ok, just throw a bunch of zeroes in there"
Or you say: "ok then, do me a solid... Put YOUR phone number in there.
My family has been doing this since the thieves invented social security. Finally others are coming on board! LOL
I say I don't give out my number, and they look at me like I have two heads. I'd never put it on tax forms. My accountant did, though, so I changed it and didn't tell him. Great accountant; zero perspicacity.
Is "perspicacity" the word I'm looking for when I think "perceptiveness"? Thanks.
Perspicacity is anticipatory. Perceptive is in the moment.
Awesome, thanks. What do you do for work?
I worked in health-care for many a moon. Still do, only no direct patient- contact.
I'm always curious where verbally acute people end up for work. Thanks!
They cannot make you sign one of these to get emergency services. They cannot make you sign anything to get emergency services. A few years back I had to go to the ER, and they wanted me to sign a form agreeing to pay for whatever services the hospital decided to provide. I refused. I told them I wasn't signing a blank check, and if they came back with a form listing only the specific treatment(s) I was receiving, I would sign. The form lady never came back.
There are vultures that loom around those with emergencies expecting people to sign anything hoping the victim never asks any questions.
Smart move.
When people pull shit like that i start a note on my phone and write “GO FUCK YOURSELF”. Then i show it to them. Its fun watching the reaction.
Attaboy pede. Fuck em.
I mean . . . it repeatedly says CONSENT . . . but lefties can't read.
Can't spell, either. A good chunk of charts I'd review at work had very imaginative renderings of drugs nurses gave or said were ordered.
Section (e) is the kicker considering section (c).
Health Care workers have become an enemy like our wonderful police force.
DO NOT BE A JOCK SNIFFER FOR POLICE OR HEALTH CARE NAZIS
My personal anecdote about medicine. I'm fat. I went to doctor to see if anything was medically wrong. Got bloodwork. Everything fine. No one says "you need to lose weight". Get referred to weight-loss doctor after I specifically ask for a referral. Go to weight loss doc. He wants to measure my metabolism with some expensive fancy machine. Gets report and says "whow, you have a high metabolism". He is basically a keto salesman. I say, "I already have done keto diet in past." He has nothing more to say. Wants to follow up in 30 days to see how I'm doing on my keto diet after he hands me a one-page sheet on how to keto. No, thanks.
Also have snoring problem. Go to sleep specialist. They make me do overnight test with expensive "sleep monitor". Hand it in. Report says "you have minor sleep apnea." I say "OK now what?" They don't say "lose weight", which is the best answer. They say "you need a CPAP." I say, how much is that? And they say, it depends on which one you need and I say, how do I know? And they say "you have to come into our sleep lab and sleep there all night and then we'll know" and I said, "Uh...no, thanks".
I am losing weight, and I bought some nose things that hold my nostrils open at night. Very little snoring, and the weight loss helps me feel better, and is reducing my sleep apnea.
THANKS, HEALTH PEOPLE
I had the same experience with a sleep doctor. He tried to put me on an APAP machine because my apnea was "too complex" for a mere CPAP. Turned out he had some involvement with the manufacturer. He might have actually designed the thing, but I forget. My actual problem was severe insomnia. Forget about waking up due to sleep apnea, I wasn't able to fall asleep at all. He never addressed that issue, partly because he would only see me for 5 minutes (after I waited an hour past my appointment time) in order to give me another referral to the sleep lab. I'm a little too high trust, so it took me a few times to catch on.
His APAP machine was recalled a year later. I don't know why it was recalled, but the sleep lab sounded very worried when they called me to ask if I was using it.
Yeah, it just so clearly felt like a racket to me, and their only suggestion was to go to their sleep lab and to buy a CPAP machine. Instead of, you know, telling me to lose weight, which was the cause for my sleep apnea. Part of it is all the "STOP SHAMING FAT PEOPLE" nonsense, but a medical professional, I thought, had an obligation to address the true problem and to give you good medical advice. It seems that even there, tip-toeing around fat people's feelings is more important than helping people.
I would even joke about being fat and they would get really uncomfortable and either change the subject or just say "No, you're fine". Bitch, I'm morbidly obese on your little BMI chart! WTF?
God blessed me this year when I happened upon a tea at the health food store by accent. It’s called ‘Pu’erh’ tea (disclaimer it’s old Chinese herbal fermented tea. I didn’t know until I looked it up after trying it) I tried the tea and it reduced my appetite naturally in a really wonderful way. Food was more tasty and I didn’t want as much to feel satisfied. Down 20 lbs, an inch or more of stubborn belly fat on about a half a glass a day. It has caffeine naturally so be aware and compensate if you already intake caffeine. A good morning drink. I buy it from a healthy organic store in their dry goods and tea area. Hope that helps and that you might find use as I have. (Personal referral, not an attempt at medical advice.)
Any chance you can pass along the brand?
It was loose bulktea. I will have to check the company that was on the label next time we pick some up. Sry I don’t have the info yet. I will try to remember to recover it for you.
Thank you for the recommendation. I recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, and this is my first Great Lent, which includes pretty intense fasting. The fasting and the extra prayers really seem to be helping me to get my gluttony under control.
I drink green tea through the day at work, so I'll look for what you recommended and try it out. Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience with me.
You’re welcome. If you like green tea, with the caffeine these may not be quite a 1:1 replacement. Listen to your body. God is so good to us, loving us and providing for our improvement and our desires to be better versions of ourselves. May God bless your efforts. I know this provided a relief for me, I pray it will also make life easier and more enjoyable for you. God is good, give Him everything and you won’t regret it!
Remember if your superfasting, come back in gently to food or you can shock your system.
"It's not consent but a waiver"
It says CONSENT right there, you just have to read it.
What really rattled me about that is where it says you consent to have your medical results sent to the government so they can monitor you and make sure you are wearing a mask, going into isolation, and getting treatment. Good job not leaving the form blank so they can forge your signature.
I'm sorry, but why do you need a covid test when you just getting stiches?
Did she get the stitches or did they tell you to find another place?
She got her stitches. I refused twice to sign and she huffed and took the paper back. I was surprised she didnt spray it down with dissifectent.
What is with the recent wave of people that don't know how to rotate a photo?
It's the new android update POSSIBLY - they did something new where it fucks all my photos. It used to autorotate them when they knew orientation was different. Now everything is sideways. I change it in the gallery, and it still uploads the WRONG way.
Yup. This picture shows in my gallery as being a portrait image. If i force it to rotate and save it its still wrong.
Sure i could email it to my pc and rotate it and post it from there but im not going through the hassle.
Exactly, I have started just cropping photos as well as rotating...as that SEEMS to help fix it?
I took it on my phone and in my gallery it wasnt showing as rotated. Only after it uploaded.
It’s not your fault. It’s an issue the phones are causing to stifle our progress (my opinion) sometimes using a host for the image helps me. Maga.host is a good one, though I still have trouble that way sometimes too.
BRAVO! We must resist!!
Why the fuck does finger stitches need a Covid test?
For fuck sake it says “consent” at the top
Good call. This is poor medical practice
Same thing happened to me at my dentist. I went for regular teeth cleaning. I refused to sign. They said it was required to perform cleaning. I walked out and told them i would NOT CONSENT TO TYRANNY. ridiculous.
"I voluntarily agree..." is not mandatory, in spite of what a retard who doesn't know how to read or is too job-scared to question her boss says about it.
Hope you didn’t leave your kid alone with them. Rip.
Good on you pede! Don't take no shit!
Just so they can get muh cases muh cases numbers up.
CSS transform for anyone trying to read this. "transform: rotate(90deg);"
Good for you.
So, clinics and hospitals cannot deny care based on ability to pay. So you have to consent to nothing ever. And p.s. if you should always always go to a hospital ER and demand a plastic surgeon for non critical sutures. ER doctors are the public school lunch ladies of food service.
Good for you.
If it wasn’t for ‘forced’ testing there would be no panic-demic. ‘Tis a sham! Good on you for reading it and sticking to your guns!
Gonna guess Medicare still pays them a $13,000 jackpot bonus for every China virus patient that walks through the door.
FUCK them
What state? I’ve been to urgent care and the ER and the doctors didn’t give a shit about Covid testing, they know it’s bullshit.
Jesus bloody christ PLEASE Rotate your picture before you post it online!!! Your phone likely can do it already if you just take some time!!!