Healthcare Rant
This entry was posted on 6/6/2008 3:36 PM and is filed under rants.
My car insurance people sent me to see a doctor called a physiatrist. This is supposed to be a specialist in pain management and diagnosis. Thier goal is to see if I am still disabled enough to warrant ongoing support payments (a measly $500 a month)
I'm pretty sure if you look up quack you'll see this guy's photograph. He saw me for exactly 20 minutes. I had never seen him before and he knew nothing of my medical history. He took down some history and details on the wreck (last year--gosh has it been a year?) and did some poking and tapping. He then declared that I did not in fact have fibromyalgia (diagnosed by a well respected Canadian Rheumatologist several years ago) and that there was no bone or nerve damage from the wreck. He suggested I stop chiropractic and physiotherapy, and all of my drugs (including my antidepressants). He recommended I swim every day and take advil.
All the while asking why I walk with a cane, having to nearly catch me as I stumbled through some of the testing, and asking why I "shake so much".
No xrays or ct scan has been done in the year since my accident.
Chiropractic, physio, accupuncture, and narcotics are how I get through my day. I have had a constant headache for over a year.
Swimming and advil. Yeah that'll fix me right up.
