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To: RR who wrote (58609)	7/11/2003 7:45:26 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Yes I am. Seems my ship has a gaping hole in it now right along the water line. It seems it was a friendly fire incident that is going to be covered up. As you know from our private discussions, no one wants to look into it or make Workman's Compensation take responsibility. This includes the Inspector General, politicians or the media. Almost everyone I have shared this with isn't in the least surprised or outraged. But as captain of my ship, I did everything I could to get this resolved fairly & justly. I worked within Workman Comp's system so that I could get proper & timely treatment of a severe injury that occurred while I was hundreds of miles from home working my ass off as a civil servant. I played by their rules. I provided them with a trail of evidence that was as rock solid as any of the fraud cases I worked as a federal auditor, all of which resulted in a successful outcome. And I did have a distinct advantage over Joe Six Pack. I had spent the previous 13+ years as a Federal auditor at two different agencies. I knew how to read & interpret their laws & regulations. I knew how the system worked. I knew what they were legally compelled to do & what evidence I needed to provide to force Workman's Comp to capitulate or defend the indefensible. I clearly exposed the horrific dereliction of duty by my case workers. I proved I was repeatedly denied due process. I proved I was repeatedly & illegally denied medical services, treatments & benefits. I proved that my physician provided clear evidence of an ongoing injury-related impairment, including permanent nerve damage. I proved that his prescribed therapy & follow-up examination were illegally denied (he was going to prescribe an MRI if therapy did not rehab my knee & we now know I had a torn meniscus, so no amount of therapy would heal it). I proved that Workman's Comp had no legal right to force me to see their doctor while simultaneously rejecting all of the evidence of an ongoing injury-related impairment that my physician had provided. I proved that their doctor submitted a blatantly false report that was based on an orthopedic examination that this doctor never performed (he even resolved my permanent nerve damage without performing any tests at all - he just called it "alleged" nerve damage). I proved that all reports pertaining to my case were filled with lies & disinformation. I proved that these reports completely ignored &/or dissembled all evidence that showed I still had an ongoing injury-related impairment. I proved these reports covered up evidence of numerous instances of wrongdoing by my case workers. I proved that numerous laws & regulations were violated in order to keep me from receiving a proper diagnosis. I proved that numerous FOIA requests were illegally ignored. I proved that the Privacy Act was violated repeatedly by them to keep me from obtaining access to the documentation in my file. In my 13+ years as a Federal auditor, I saved taxpayers many tens of millions of dollars exposing fraud by presenting evidence to prosecutors in quite a similar fashion to the evidence I presented to Workman's Comp in my appeal. Yes, I took sole responsibility for myself & worked within their system. I left Workman's Comp with only one logical legal conclusion; that terminating my legitimate claim would be completely improper. Workman's Comp somehow managed to ignore all of my evidence as though I had remained completely silent in my appeal. They blithely concluded that I had long ago fully recovered from my 'contusion' by relying solely on their doctor's fraudulent report & ignoring all evidence my physician & I had provided. Workman's Comp closed my claim with prejudice. My claims examiners got their bonuses for saving Workman's Comp money based on how they handled my claim. Our health insurance must now pay for all costs related to my injury. I get to live with all the additional damage to my knee that happened by not having it properly treated in a timely manner. You'll have to excuse me if I take a little time to stew over the events of the last 3 1/2 years. I've had plenty of experience turning the other cheek, dusting myself off, picking myself up & moving on. Unfortunately I'm having a harder time getting up this time with this permanent damage to my knee. OOF :-\|