This is regarding my 83 year old Grandmother who was diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis and Arthritis, yet completely paralyzed. The concern is the treatment she endured regarding the cooperation involving her physician and her HMO. Two years before her paralysis…

Aug 2003 – Upon going to the ER room because my son possibly broke his hand, they sent us to an MT Unit, due to it not being a life threatening emergency where we waited in a 90 degree waiting…

Question: You mentioned you had surgery last summer. Can you tell me something about the surgery?

Answer: Yes, I had to have surgery on my spine this past May 23rd. The type of surgery I had was called a spinal fusion.…

The problems with health care are monumental, not only here in the United States, but throughout the world. No area is immune. The root causes for the problems are many and very complex. They run the gamut from poverty, to…

This is about mail order drugs. While we can get a three month supply of Rx drugs quite cheap ($4.00) it takes a while to get the program working. First you have to have the doctor write a one month…

A major problem in American Medicine is the managed care concept of “medical necessity”…always used against the patient…s/he gets the insurance coverage in good faith, believes that s/he is protected, and finds that “medical necessity” is used to deny care.…

I think there are several causes of the medical system failing miserably. Insurance companies are one very obvious reason. Stocks being held on hospitals and various other medical institutions and companies are another. No one should be able to capitalize…

My family is covered by my PPO health plan where I work. We go to the same drug store to get prescriptions filled each month. The drug store says that the insurance company will only pay for a 30-day supply…

My doctor prescribed Fosamax ™, taken once a week, for osteoporosis which I took for a year, paying my insurance company copay. When this first insurance company went into lengthy contractual debate with the clinic I was going to, we…

My son is 14 years old and has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Given the current state of our health care system, parts of his future career path have already been decided for him. Because he will probably never be…