EQGuy
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I got the bill from the anaesthesiologist yesterday for the knee surgery I had and he billed my insurance an extra $120 due to my extreme age (70). I sure am glad I was not 80 or 90.
I have been notified I am extremely old!
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chaparrito
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So he has to pay closer attention?
Be glad you're ancient!
Be glad you're ancient!
welcome to the club. it's just another way to gouge more money for his next round of golf. lee
Vulcan Bob
Member
What, no "senior citizen discount", this is an outrage! Wait till the folks at the "Golden Corral" hear about this.
At the plant where I worked we had some Navajo contractors doing some construction work. Some of the conversations I had with them were very interesting. I got to know them quite well and they told me my Indian name would be "Ancient One". Before then I told them my name used to be "Runs with Scissors". I'm almost 71 so I guess the name fits.
MCorps0311
US Veteran
Somebody wake up Rodney Dangerfield,senior just don't get no respect these days!
shouldazagged
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To put it delicately, that sucks sewage.
model70hunter
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Well this one works in both directions. HMP young whippersnappermultilesstallentedidiosowithasheepskinonthewall.
Just before I retired, my family doc was a great man and Dr. I was in some pain, stomach trouble thought I. He calls and said you've a kidney stone the size of a dime. I already have you admitted to the hospital, This was the day before I retired, he knew I was going from good company insurance to that nocare stuff.
I said I can't go this minute the marketing and sales team is giving me a big luncheon, free beer, gag gifts, fishing pole, kisses from the good looking ones and etc.
He said get to the hosp after the party.
The urology group sent their new boy, yep he did the urology residency and then went to a foreign country for 1 year to learn how to reverse vasectomies. Well all he almost knew about urology he forgot. He botched it so bad it was a joke but I couldn't laugh, in pain from the run away fever and one dime size stone that was now in two equal parts still in the kidney.
My insurance said have a nice death, your coverage was dropped when you retired and I had not elected to take Cobray.
Well my wife threw my 103 temp but in the car and we went to the Hospital in Joplin, mo. We had made 3 unsuccessful trips 250 miles to STL. Time for a 2nd opinion. They did it for what Medicare paid.
A 50 something Dr, an old farm raised boy came in and said I'll be removing your stones in the AM. Get some rest. OK I'm impressed, the guy is old enough to shave and right off I can tell he knows stones.
He said did they mention the stone in the other kidney, I gave him the deer in the headlights look, huh? He said it is nickle size from your look I guess you did not know, no sir.
Grey hair around the temples, walked and take confidently, now here is the exact opposite of a snot nosed know nothing yet kid.
He did great, he went in and smashed them into little pieces that did not hurt on the way out of town.
The kid doc, Dooby housers brother told me he couldn't really see the stone because of the blood. HUH? I was a medic, pump water in and suck it out. What else don't they teach kids now?
If a DOC had told me I was being charged extra due top my age I would have said sorry sir but I can not grasp your qualifications from this interview. Lets move along I do have other candidates to interview.
And I have done exactly that most recently, not for age but for stupid and the worst bedside manner and for assuming rather than testing and later they came back and said OH MY the test show something is wrong and thank you for giving me a 2nd chance.
Can anyone guess how I spoke with that Dr boy? He now knows bedside manner, he will not assume, he will test before making WAGS and dismissing it as no problem here, there isn't anything I can do for you BS.
His boss knows, I changed his dang world, just because you have a med degree does not immediately put you in the same league as GOD!
This happened a couple of weeks ago when Mrs M-70 developed some stomach issues and we were in the ER. She is an RN, she knows a little in side the hospital door, she stood up, grabber her coat an told him he had the worst demeanor she's ever seen. I had been quiet, she's the patient.
I said sit down dear, and laid into the Doc Boy, I guess he did not know he was god, he had skipped school the day they discussed how important testing can be, how ASSUMING, I went over that subject with a fine tooth comb and how important the bed side manner is. ?HE set in his chair and took it, he listened. I then stepped back and let him up, he got busy. I was not quite as hard on the chief resident, he saw the light so quick we did not have to talk long. Yes the guy still works for the hospital, my new family doc knows him, we spoke about it at my last appointment, the guy was known for all I just described and no one not even his boss had worked with him on it.
Training is a wonderful tool, all can be trained to a degree, however with some it does take a larger hammer.
Mrs M 70 was there 3.5 days, and is doing very well.
I've never seen that little woman so mad, she wanted to rip his head off and maybe just maybe nurse him back to health.
This one is still burning me. Everyone looks for ways to dip deeper into SR health care. Some nursing homes have taken to Evicting older residents as it takes more time to deal with the old. An article ran last week. Well my, my folks, is not one of the prime directives for Nursing Homes to take care of the old? HMM, I'm waiting greedy corporate money mongers. So what's your long term plan? Have a Stage 2 Nursing home for extra bucks for really old folks?
I think one was in PA, the state investigated and so noted the nursing home had indeed evicted an older person with dementia. The state gave them a wrist slap as there is not a fine to penalize them.
Several homes in other states are also using EVICTION as the mode to move them out of their facility.
Makes a person want to find a good and intelligent politician who looks at issues with closed billfold and both eyes open.
Just before I retired, my family doc was a great man and Dr. I was in some pain, stomach trouble thought I. He calls and said you've a kidney stone the size of a dime. I already have you admitted to the hospital, This was the day before I retired, he knew I was going from good company insurance to that nocare stuff.
I said I can't go this minute the marketing and sales team is giving me a big luncheon, free beer, gag gifts, fishing pole, kisses from the good looking ones and etc.
He said get to the hosp after the party.
The urology group sent their new boy, yep he did the urology residency and then went to a foreign country for 1 year to learn how to reverse vasectomies. Well all he almost knew about urology he forgot. He botched it so bad it was a joke but I couldn't laugh, in pain from the run away fever and one dime size stone that was now in two equal parts still in the kidney.
My insurance said have a nice death, your coverage was dropped when you retired and I had not elected to take Cobray.
Well my wife threw my 103 temp but in the car and we went to the Hospital in Joplin, mo. We had made 3 unsuccessful trips 250 miles to STL. Time for a 2nd opinion. They did it for what Medicare paid.
A 50 something Dr, an old farm raised boy came in and said I'll be removing your stones in the AM. Get some rest. OK I'm impressed, the guy is old enough to shave and right off I can tell he knows stones.
He said did they mention the stone in the other kidney, I gave him the deer in the headlights look, huh? He said it is nickle size from your look I guess you did not know, no sir.
Grey hair around the temples, walked and take confidently, now here is the exact opposite of a snot nosed know nothing yet kid.
He did great, he went in and smashed them into little pieces that did not hurt on the way out of town.
The kid doc, Dooby housers brother told me he couldn't really see the stone because of the blood. HUH? I was a medic, pump water in and suck it out. What else don't they teach kids now?
If a DOC had told me I was being charged extra due top my age I would have said sorry sir but I can not grasp your qualifications from this interview. Lets move along I do have other candidates to interview.
And I have done exactly that most recently, not for age but for stupid and the worst bedside manner and for assuming rather than testing and later they came back and said OH MY the test show something is wrong and thank you for giving me a 2nd chance.
Can anyone guess how I spoke with that Dr boy? He now knows bedside manner, he will not assume, he will test before making WAGS and dismissing it as no problem here, there isn't anything I can do for you BS.
His boss knows, I changed his dang world, just because you have a med degree does not immediately put you in the same league as GOD!
This happened a couple of weeks ago when Mrs M-70 developed some stomach issues and we were in the ER. She is an RN, she knows a little in side the hospital door, she stood up, grabber her coat an told him he had the worst demeanor she's ever seen. I had been quiet, she's the patient.
I said sit down dear, and laid into the Doc Boy, I guess he did not know he was god, he had skipped school the day they discussed how important testing can be, how ASSUMING, I went over that subject with a fine tooth comb and how important the bed side manner is. ?HE set in his chair and took it, he listened. I then stepped back and let him up, he got busy. I was not quite as hard on the chief resident, he saw the light so quick we did not have to talk long. Yes the guy still works for the hospital, my new family doc knows him, we spoke about it at my last appointment, the guy was known for all I just described and no one not even his boss had worked with him on it.
Training is a wonderful tool, all can be trained to a degree, however with some it does take a larger hammer.
Mrs M 70 was there 3.5 days, and is doing very well.
I've never seen that little woman so mad, she wanted to rip his head off and maybe just maybe nurse him back to health.
This one is still burning me. Everyone looks for ways to dip deeper into SR health care. Some nursing homes have taken to Evicting older residents as it takes more time to deal with the old. An article ran last week. Well my, my folks, is not one of the prime directives for Nursing Homes to take care of the old? HMM, I'm waiting greedy corporate money mongers. So what's your long term plan? Have a Stage 2 Nursing home for extra bucks for really old folks?
I think one was in PA, the state investigated and so noted the nursing home had indeed evicted an older person with dementia. The state gave them a wrist slap as there is not a fine to penalize them.
Several homes in other states are also using EVICTION as the mode to move them out of their facility.
Makes a person want to find a good and intelligent politician who looks at issues with closed billfold and both eyes open.
pittpa
Member
Anesthesiologists drive the most expensive cars. When you pay the bill, ask him for the name of his boat. I vote for "Wake Up"
EDIT, my vane friend lied about her age before knee replacement surgery, and thus woke up during surgery.
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R. G. Amos
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The extra charge was probably to cover his insurance premium.
martybee
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That and the fact that he has to Re-Boot your brain and get all the programs running as they are supposed to! Some times the reboot process has to be repeated several times before it takes!
LOL!
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