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I was surfing the web late one night and found these two, oh-so-true paragraphs that sum up managed health care in a nutshell, so I thought I'd share:

"Mangled care" was supposed to be the solution to rising health costs. HMOs would cut out the waste and keep an eye on doctors who ordered unnecessary tests and procedures, saving consumers big money. But it was the HMOs that made the big money--by restricting care.

Their philosophy was summed up by Richard Rainwater, cofounder of the for-profit HMO Columbia-HCA: "The day has come when somebody has to do in the hospital business what McDonald’s has done in the fast-food business and what Wal-Mart has done in the retailing business."

That is so very true.  I just dealt with the Hellish Malpractice Organization this past week.  My kid had a thumb pointing toward his elbow after a football accident.  Well, the thumb wasn't fractured and we knew that meant ligament damage, but we didn't know if it was a complete tear or just a partial tear; therefore, we didn't know if he needed surgery or just a cast for six weeks.  The ortho ordered an MRI and my HMO absolutely refused.  They said to cast his hand for three weeks and then if the thumb ROM is not improved, they "might" approve the MRI at that time.  I am still furious over them practicing medicine on my kid without physically examining him.  The ortho told me it has become such a nightmare that he has considered changing professions (boy, did I tell him another nightmare or two about medical transcription). 

Well, just to be a butt, my son started having sharp pains shooting up his arm, so I called my lovely HMO and asked the representative what she thought the diagnosis might be.  She sounded totally shocked that I was asking her this and said there was no way she could tell me such.  I think I made my point to her when I said, "Well, you guys decided to treat my child, sight unseen, in spite of the professional opinion of his ortho, so I thought I'd just see if you could R/O a clot or other major complication via telephone."  Believe it or not, I got a call about forty minutes later telling me his MRI had been approved.

I just wanted to share my experience with etranz in the hope that no one else will be caught in their trap.  This company is very unprofessional in their business dealings.  The management will send out payroll checks sometimes as much as 2 weeks late.  There are several former MTs how have had checks bounce and are still holding the money.  Personally, I have had no checks bounce but I believe it is only because I am in the state of GA where the eTranz office is. I informed the owner that if my check bounced I would be coming to Gwinette County to file charges and lo and behold my check cleared.  When I tried to terminate my employment, I was told that if I did not work out my 14 day notice that half of my final paycheck would be held as per contract.  When I tried to get a guarantee from the owner that I would be paid for this work, all she could do was scream at me over the phone and she refused to answer my questions concerning payroll.  Finally, what I had to do was force her to lock me out of the system so that I could start  new contract that I had.  I kept calling her regarding payroll, leaving message after message.  If I did get her on the phone, she still refused to answer my question, yelled at me, and would hang up on me.

Please stay away from this company.  I have found out since resigning that this company has a track record for very unethical business practices. 

Her husband ignores her and every night they spend the evening with her in the breezeway watching some movie from 1950 and him watching porno in the living room.  He makes perverted remarks at waitresses, comments about the physical attrributes of every woman he sees, has made their 30-year-old daughter's friends his "imaginary girlfriends" (has pictures of himself with just about all of them and even calls some of them "his girlfriend"). 

Needless to say his wife has no self esteem whatsoever after almost 40 years of this.

However, she puts up with it and never says a word to him about it.  Then the nastiness comes out in other ways.  She's passive aggressive, mean, angry, frustrated and takes it out on anyone she can, which is why I just keep my distance.

Miserable, dysfunctional people. 

whatever the complaint is... the patient will undergo bypass surgery!!

Horrible management, 90% ESLs with horrible sound quality, and recieved my last paycheck 3 weeks late with no response as to why.  They gave me gray hair.

Living in a state called "Vacationland," people think they can just show up, both unannounced and announced, and use our place as a free resort because "you just work from home, you don't have a set schedule...you can still hang out and play."  I don't say anything, because I'm not confrontational, and I live so far away from friends and family I truly do appreciate it when they drive all the way up to visit, but it's really not that easy to work around. 

The only life they know is confinement and pain.  From the little I let myself watch, they have absolutely no room to move, they are crammed and shoved in together.  They don't get to roam and do whats natural to them outdoors.  They are being born and raised primarily to be brutalized for crop.  Like a canned food factory.  They get their body parts cut off, injuries from other animals, and have to live in physical pain until they are ready to be put out of their misery for whatever purpose they serve.

In all honesty, I absolutely love meat and enjoy it on rare occasions, and it is meant for us to consume.  There is another way to do it!  They cannot be treated as if they do not have feelings, they 'feel' pain, the mother's are distressed when their calves are taken away, the calves are scared, you see it in their eyes, as another living thing, you have got to connect with this.  Its an awful way for any living thing to go through, even in a short time. 

I can see being raised on a farm, room to roam, be outside, run, eat normally, socialize with their breed, have a life.  They do not know the better that they are being raised for our consumption, there are living in peace without pain and living freely.  Being crammed, thrown around, beaks cut off, having throats slit, hung upside down while still alive thriving in pain is not a peaceful life. 

Talk about production!!!

However, that only works if the person who has dictated the voice file is also the one who trained Dragon on the system. IOW, Dr Smith has DNS 8 Med Suite in his office, and he's trained it enough to provide a good level of accuracy. He can dictate into the mobile unit, say, after seeing a patient, but things still have to be in the same manner that he dictates into DNS on his home system. He can give the voice file to his office manager to upload and do the editing.

But you can't do that with Dr Smith's dictation, unless Dr Smith has sat at your computer and trained it. As soon as you input the voice file, your system will give you a great big "do what?"

I hope this explains things better.