Dear Ms. Jane Doe:
Pursuant to my e-mail dated July 30, 2015,
I still require the names of the persons who provided my radiation treatment at the XYZ Facility Radiation Oncology Department.
I examined your brief curriculum vitae on Linkedin & saw that you attended both Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr College.
Considering this, I thought I might be able to provide some assistance in completing this task.
First, let us consider the word "Name"; now perhaps you missed the third grade, and were admitted to these schools by some other merit, (my imagination runs wild here), or perhaps you were too economically challenged to purchase an English language dictionary, so let's look at the definition:
NAME (noun): 1. A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known.
Now let's use it in a sentence. "The blonde woman named Jane has violated HIPPA regulations."
Here's another example: "Jane Doe, an employee of the XYZ Facility Radiation Oncology Department is-- and I quote Jon Stewart -- engaging in 'premeditated institutional bullshit designed to obscure and distract'." (You may wish to examine the previous sentence to note the correct use of a quote within a quote; you may also take note that this is a compound sentence that contains the proper use of the "dash", which is distinguished from a hyphen because it serves in place of a parenthetical phrase rather than linking two words together, such as "stupid-c**t".)
“PROVIDE” [(verb) 1. to make available for use,] my record as mandated by law.
Please obtain & provide the required records POSTHASTE (I'll leave you to discover the meaning of this word -- hint, it's an adverb); or I shall seek legal council against both you, the physician you work for, as well as that very special and renowned facility that you are employed by.
Have a nice day.
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Cancer Treatment Centers all suck
I am not a doctor.
I am not a lawyer.
The following is based on my personal experience and are my personal thoughts for the cancer patient who will be receiving radiation treatment. Get your own legal counsel before utilizing any of these ideas.
Okay, I don’t have the time to give you the run-down on each and every facility that has discounted my opinion, pushed me into treatments I did not want, and generally, but oh, so sweetly, told me to “shut up and like it” and THEN screwed me with a double helix, but let me tell you about one in particular. (See “Legal Counsel Advises Against Naming Names", below.
So, after being radiated into kingdom-come, when I asked for my medical records under the HIPPA laws, I received some, then I asked again, and got some more, but the specifics were incomplete. Doctor did not perform the radiation sessions, and yet, there it is plain as day: "Ordered by Doctor; performed by Doctor". Then I asked again and received in the US Mail a great big package of everything they already sent me. I kept asking in writing until the light-bulb went off that I was being hosed. (Okay, I’m a slow learner, but it might be the chemo brain.)
So, my friends, some thoughts:
#1 What’s the deal with paying your co-pay before receiving service? Why would you pay for a service that has not even been rendered? I’m arguing right now with my insurer because so help me god(s) at the last visit, the nurse weighed me, took my temperature and the doctor came in and asked me how I was feeling. I do not consider this a medical service. My gramma can do this. So I ain’t paying it. I can take my own damn temperature, I know how much I weigh, and I feel just fine, thankyouverymuch.
#2 Find out WHO will be your ACTUAL RADIATION PROVIDER before you receive services. If it won’t be the physician, get the names of the actual hands-on tech(s) or nurse(s). Look up their credentials at the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists first https://www.arrt.org/Registration/Verify-Credentials to see if they are even legally allowed to touch you.
#3 BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE FACILITY AFTER TREATMENT or CONSULTATION
Get a full and complete document of who, what where and when the service was provided. And I mean if a nurse so much as sticks a thermometer in your ear (used to be mouth back in my day) it damn well better be documented.
Not just a receipt for your co-pay, but DETAILS. They have computers. If you need to wait for them to do the data entry, wait.
Finally, if you ask for your records, and they don’t provide them to you, or stall you, or pretend they can’t find them, or are just dicking you, (because that’s the small print in their Mission Statement), you can look up this website and learn more. (See how I legally squirmed out of that one?) http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/index.html
Because believe you me, if I don’t go down by “death by cop” it’ll be a goddamn miracle, because I want to haul this MD’s ass into the street and stick a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum spin gun in his mouth and ask the punk if he feels lucky.
I am not a lawyer.
The following is based on my personal experience and are my personal thoughts for the cancer patient who will be receiving radiation treatment. Get your own legal counsel before utilizing any of these ideas.
Okay, I don’t have the time to give you the run-down on each and every facility that has discounted my opinion, pushed me into treatments I did not want, and generally, but oh, so sweetly, told me to “shut up and like it” and THEN screwed me with a double helix, but let me tell you about one in particular. (See “Legal Counsel Advises Against Naming Names", below.
So, after being radiated into kingdom-come, when I asked for my medical records under the HIPPA laws, I received some, then I asked again, and got some more, but the specifics were incomplete. Doctor did not perform the radiation sessions, and yet, there it is plain as day: "Ordered by Doctor; performed by Doctor". Then I asked again and received in the US Mail a great big package of everything they already sent me. I kept asking in writing until the light-bulb went off that I was being hosed. (Okay, I’m a slow learner, but it might be the chemo brain.)
So, my friends, some thoughts:
#1 What’s the deal with paying your co-pay before receiving service? Why would you pay for a service that has not even been rendered? I’m arguing right now with my insurer because so help me god(s) at the last visit, the nurse weighed me, took my temperature and the doctor came in and asked me how I was feeling. I do not consider this a medical service. My gramma can do this. So I ain’t paying it. I can take my own damn temperature, I know how much I weigh, and I feel just fine, thankyouverymuch.
#2 Find out WHO will be your ACTUAL RADIATION PROVIDER before you receive services. If it won’t be the physician, get the names of the actual hands-on tech(s) or nurse(s). Look up their credentials at the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists first https://www.arrt.org/Registration/Verify-Credentials to see if they are even legally allowed to touch you.
#3 BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE FACILITY AFTER TREATMENT or CONSULTATION
Get a full and complete document of who, what where and when the service was provided. And I mean if a nurse so much as sticks a thermometer in your ear (used to be mouth back in my day) it damn well better be documented.
Not just a receipt for your co-pay, but DETAILS. They have computers. If you need to wait for them to do the data entry, wait.
Finally, if you ask for your records, and they don’t provide them to you, or stall you, or pretend they can’t find them, or are just dicking you, (because that’s the small print in their Mission Statement), you can look up this website and learn more. (See how I legally squirmed out of that one?) http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/index.html
Because believe you me, if I don’t go down by “death by cop” it’ll be a goddamn miracle, because I want to haul this MD’s ass into the street and stick a Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum spin gun in his mouth and ask the punk if he feels lucky.
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