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Doc ranting about insurance while dictating - No MRI


Posted: Oct 16, 2010

a doc dictating on a teenager with new-onset seizures, numbness, slurred speech had ranted a little and made it clear he was angry in his report when an insurance company would not cover a brain MRI on this person.   Family were worried enough to get one anyway and it found a glioma that the CT didn't pick up. 

I pay 750 a month for health insurance, I think I would make quite the stink if this happened to me. 

such is life - oh well

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I feel for the family but frankly dont care amymore I may have but this profession has caused me to be a rat in a hole

Good for him! - Anon

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OP, I just wish all doctors invested a seconds in every report to complain about corporate interference in medical care. The more people for whom the suffering and many thousands of deaths this year alone become real, the sooner it will change for the better for all of us.

I resent terribly being rounded up and milked for profit by a company that makes its money by not allowing access to healthcare. The very day an alternative presents will be the day I cancel my policy.

Oh Well, don't blame this profession for apathy in the face of evil. Many tens of millions in this country alone are facing exactly what we are in their own industries.


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