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To: Murrey Walker who wrote (59464)	10/17/2003 5:16:04 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Murrey, Perhaps it's me & I'm grouchy because chronic pain can alter one's mood & perspective. Perhaps I have a point. My primary care physician seems to be the exception to the rule. He has been able to diagnose things based upon his face time with me, even before any tests have been performed to confirm the problem. He also has mentioned certain things that would help, like physical therapy (where an expert can tailor a proper set of exercises, the proper techniques & machines, the proper settings & the proper number of repetitions, while closely monitoring your progress & making sure you don't do more harm to yourself), etc. Sadly, my primary care physician can't do squat about it as he is required to send me to a "specialist" to make the diagnosis & recommend any treatments. The specialist usually needs to see me more than once before they order any kind of tests. That only delays any kind of diagnosis being made while the patient has to continue living with whatever malady they have, sans any real treatment whatsoever. It's interesting to note that my insurance is a co-pay system too. And if you are familiar with the system you know that means several months have passed already. Typically, these specialists go to their recipe book & prescribe this drug or that drug first. And time continues to pass. That however, costs the insurance companies nothing, so who cares? They aren't feeling any pain at all. Perscribed physical therapy is almost like a swear word. No doubt because it is expensive, not because it actually works. Funny though, most of them ask if you are paying for your own spa membership where you can do certain exercises & get access to a pool. If you answer no, they will recommend that you get one though - at your own expense. Then they will gladly give you info on a number of things you can do on your own that have shown to improve the situation. They really do want you to get better since continued visits cost the insurance company $$; they just don't want to pay for anything unless they absolutely have to. One thing I have noticed with amazing frequency. Any time something effects me negatively or something bad happens to me at the hands of someone else; there always seems to be a multitude of excuses for that person or the system (often quite lame, irrelevant or illegal to boot) to justify it. No one need be responsible anymore. Just make excuses & blame someone or something else. Yup, everyone always has an excuse to justify why they can't or won't do what is right or required by law. Hell, anymore laws don't even matter if one has a good enough excuse. And we must protect those profits & the shareholders too, now don't we? I mean really, there's no way a white male in his mid-40's can possibly have something harm them these days, right? It certainly must be something he did to deserve it. Besides, we gotta save our outrage for every other type of person on the planet who's been oppressed by Tim all these many decades.