How the medical economy works

You obviously do not understand how the medical economy works (smiles and winks).  Docs love seeing patients once a year when they already know whats wrong (usually not much).  It's easy money just like it is when we get a standard dictation.  Since insurance will pay for it, they order all kinds of lab tests and maybe some imaging - you know, screening just in case - so they don't actually have to take the time to ask you if something is bothering you or listen to what you tell them.  That takes too much time, and time is money.  This also keeps the labs and imaging services in business (some of which the docs have invested in).  When it comes to drugs, they do not want you using the old tried and true.  That sucker is off patent and can be bought cheap and sometimes OTC with no prescription and office visit required.  No, they want to give you the latest thing that is still on patent and costs a bundle.  That's medical planned obsolescence, maybe because the docs invest in the drug companies, too.

If you remember the names of the other creams that have worked, you could try running them past a pharmacist.  He/She should be able to tell you if any are available OTC.

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1. I went to buy a toaster oven and they gave me a bank.

2. I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

3. CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

4. Hotwheels and Matchbox cars are now trading higher than GM.

5. Obama met with small businesses - GE, Pfizer, Chrysler, Citigroup and
GM, to discuss the Stimulus Package.

6. McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

7. People in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their
children's names.

8. The most highly-paid job is now jury duty.

9. People in Africa are donating money to Americans. Mothers in Ethiopia
are telling their kids, "finish your plate; do you know how many kids are
starving in the US?"

10. Motel Six won't leave the lights on.

11. The Mafia is laying off judges.

12. If the bank returns your check marked "insufficient funds," you have
to call them and ask if they meant you or them.

All those people on TV are talking about a 400.00 or more increse in their mortgages. They spent over 600.00 a month on extras. This was on Operah. I can't believe that these people don't have a clue.

Between the 400.00 and the 600.00 on extras...that is what I get in one month.

I have cut back as much as I thin is possible and it is still difficult to make ends meet. I even have went so far as to unplup everything that I am not using.

How do you cope?

How about using the economy as an excuse?   You could phrase it that you don't want her to spend her money or something like that.  She may seem to enjoy it, but she might jump at the chance to cut one thing out of a crazy shopping season.

Good luck.  My family and I stopped exchanging gifts years ago.  None of my brothers or sisters have kids and we all decided that we were broke and stressed and just didn't need to do it.  It's made Chrismtas much more relaxing.  We just get together for a nice dinner and have a good time.

I still haven't gotten mine, and will believe it when I have it in my hand.  Worse, I just got one of those "Return Information Notices" in the mail.  Well, guess what?  The state of Calif. did a little number-rearranging, (or should I maybe call it "fuzzy math"?), and my state income tax refund has been changed from over $300 down to ZERO.  When you call the number on the website, and finally get a live person to help, they very helpfully refer you to "someone who can go over it with you", and then the system tells you it's too busy, and hangs up on you! 

And get THIS:  The actually had a LOWER taxable income than I had calculated.  So how do they figure I am suddenly owed NO refund?  It sure sounds like that's how the gov't. is funding those economic stimulus checks.  Like I'm really sure that gypping us like that is going to create an economic stimulus. 

Looks like once again, this Calif. taxpayer has been Californicated. 

I just finished my chemo and radiation for breast cancer.  I have health insurance but found out that they only pay 80%.  I have become overwhelmed with hospital bills.  Does anybody know if those companies are on the up and up, that say that they can help you cut your medical bills ? 

Thanx for any help.

Donna

I just watched an unsettling video about a young high school student diagnosed with cancer.  Had to have his leg amputated and he had excrutiating pain that kept him awake through the night for about 3 months.  Doctors kept giving him narcotic drugs and he was doped up/sleeping all the time.  He started receiving medical marijuana (in a controlled clinic) and it helped.  He said he would be able to function during the day and get his stuff done.  He regained his appetite and was able to build his muscle tissue back up (mind you this is not some dope addict - this is a clean cut high school student who used to play on the football team, definitely not someone who is going in just to get their "fix").  Anyway...this medical clinic was set up in California and evidently the person in charge of the police department of the town didn't like it because "he believed it does not work".  So he called the DEA, they went in and raided the place and threw the doc in charge of the clinic on the floor handcuffed him and hauled him off to jail.  Evidently the clinic was approved, they show pics of the doctor in charge of the clinic shaking hands with the mayor and being welcomed to the city.  Well after they raided his office they then went to his home and raided his home.  Now this doctor is facing possibly 100 years in jail (all because some uptight police person in charge does not believe medical marijuana works and he is against it.  The parents even said "what part of this don't they understand.  Medical marijuana helps.  It rejuvinates the brain cells, brings back hunger so cancer patients and others with serious illness will be able to eat and get better and not be suffering with pain.  No instead they want to dispense drugs by the pharmaceutical companies that are killing people and keeping them comatose.  It just makes me sick that this form of treatment is not being allowed for more people who need it (not just want it to get high - but actually need it).  This is why we need to get rid of big government.  Give the power back to the people where it belongs.

Wknds are the toughest at any hosp.     

Considering your FIL has had a stroke, who's his proxy?.... he can't sign for himself....Someone has to run down to medical records and sign a release for ALL the medical records pertaining to the dates in question......ER, HP, procedures, consults, progress notes,  labs, anything you can think of ...You are entitled to a free copy and it will be sent to your home address within a week.      

Docs at the new hosp may be able to access records over the internet as a course of professional courtesy.   Hope he recovers soon.              

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paying something else late.  I could not tell my child, bio, non-bio, raised or not raised, no when they are ill.

You are a doctor. You have an 80-year-old patient with stage 4 cancer, who has just finished radiation treatments. The patient is on Medicare. You (the doctor) know of a new drug that "might" slow the cancer, but it has not been approved by Medicare yet, and the cost is $1000 per week.

Do you recommend this drug to this patient's family?