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The Scottish Colourists?

Sotheby’s continues to teach me (and the world) about artists and movements that I have never heard of. They are to be congratulated. This is a fine introduction to a branch of painting well worth discovering.

The Vibrant Art of The Scottish Colourists

“The Scottish Colourists were some of the most important and avant-garde artists working during the early 20th century. Their art was bold and vibrant and unlike anything that had been produced in Britain before. Sotheby’s upcoming sale ‘The Way of Colour: Pictures from the Harrison Collection’ (10 – 17 March) offers Fauvist inspired paintings by George Leslie Hunter, stunning still-lifes by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell and Cezanne-like work by Samuel John Peploe.”

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Fax Machines at Intermountain Health Care

Nothing speaks more to the total inadequate suppoort that a patient receives at Intermountain Health Care (internal link) than their continuing use of fax machines.

This should be dead technology is still in constant use at Intermountain between the company itself and their contractors.

Money goes into advertising how good they are while the tools they use show how bad they are. I even noticed the Internet Explorer icon on an Intermountain computer terminal. IE? Really? It came from the 90’s!

I am getting appointments scheduled now but only after turning into a beast, the worst version of myself, by ceaseless badgering people day after day after day.

None of what is happening now would have happened without my continuing hectoring and shaming.

The progress in the last two weeks has been more in total than everything done in the last ten months of my being polite and patient.

I told everyone two weeks ago that I was going to do whatever it took to get treated.

I meant it and I am not through yet. No treatment has yet been scheduled so you can believe that I won’t stop this hysteria until I get these procedures done and followed through.

Every day. Multiple calls. Ceaseless. Count on it. Healthcare today with Intermountain Healthcare.

NB: (internal link) I now have a page to chronicle this disastrous group and all the harm they cause others.

I hope that over that my Intermountain page will act as a clearing house for keeping track of the most broken medical system in American.

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Kessinger Publishing Work at Home Scheme

Updated May 3, 31, 2021

Kessinger Publishing Work at Home Scheme

I’ve received many, many complaints in the last three months about Kessinger Publishing. The latest one, today, had Kessinger asking an applicant to pay them $1,950 before beginning work!

They have branched out from a questionable reprinting service to a questionable work at home scheme.

Kessinger wants an applicant’s address before hiring and their bank account information.

They spin a strange tale about the prospective worker having to buy software and hardware from them. Hundreds to thousands of dollars worth. Really? Really?

I would be extremely cautious; read my Kessinger page here before you deal with them. (internal link) NB: I updated that page on March 26, 2021.

Have you been burned? Let me know. I’ll forward your correspondence to any interested agency.

But first, use government tools like these. This is from the Federal Trade Commission:

“Report Job Scams to the FTC

If you see or lose money to a job scam, report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. You can also report it to your state attorney general.

Find out more about how to avoid scams at ftc.gov/scams.”

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

 

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Intermountain Health Care: An Evaluation

Intermountain Health Care has little interest in improving a patient’s experience in their system since money does not flow from the patient.

Instead, money flows from government and insurance companies, with few patients paying out of pocket.

Improving how Intermountain deals with a patient would mean paying for that improvement themselves.

Relations between contractors and Intermountain remains miserable.

An assistant with my primary doctor told me that a hurry up appointment with the contractor known as Pain Management took her over an hour to schedule. And she was calling in on the high priority physicians telephone line.

I would have never been able to schedule an appointment like that on my own. Not a chance. Yet it is up to the patient in nearly all cases to schedule themselves, so that burden sits on the patient, not Intermountain.

Why improve relations with contractors when the patient has to schedule? Let them sit on hold. Not our people.

The social media people employed are repulsive. They should all be degreed medical professionals before being allowed to talk to patients. Remember, we are patients first, then customers.

Next week I will attempt to complete procedures that should have been done months and months and months ago. These mindless delays happened because I am a doctor’s son and I don’t complain about medicine. But this is no longer about medicine. This is about neglect and incompetence.

I thought briefly about getting some of my treatment done by paying out of pocket. But why should I pay tens of thousands of dollars because someone can’t be bothered to pick up a phone? No, they’re going to pay for it. All of it.

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Yeah, My Dad Was Busy With a Family, Too

My Dad was a brilliant physician and surgeon who had four sons at one point and was a busy family man. Despite this, he worked whatever hours it took to take care of his patients and always left a covering physician to take over when he wasn’t available.

He was Camp Doctor at the Boy Scout Camp at Echo Lake for many years. Here is myself, my older brother Tim, and my younger brother Bill.

Much excitement ensued around lakeside cabins when word got out that there was a doctor on the lake. People would present him things like a dog with a fishhook in his mouth. Yes, Dad would do that. He was a role model doctor, a true professional, and loved and admired greatly.

I doubt there would be any place for him today in modern medicine.

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Intermountain is Hurting Me

Got an email from some sheltered elite at Intermountain (internal link) complaining that I was undermining his team with my Tweets. Well, they are the only thing that gets the company’s attention.

This snowball had told me just two days ago that I should do “what I needed to do” when it came to using Twitter more. Now, not so much. I guesss he is more brain damaged than I am.

Undermining you and your team? I am so sorry. Damn you!

I have suffered terrible bouts of violent nightmares since October 23, 1988. No medicine or talk therapy has ever helped and, thirty years on, I am pushing for ECT to get relief.

Guess what brings on more nightmares? Endless and pointless arguing with people over problems I never created or wanted. Just like my nightmares. I didn’t choose to get them. Or to keep them around.

I never tell this to anyone outside my doctors since it makes people uncomfortable. I am so sorry for you and your team and being undermined.

I have been utterly silent over my care until now. The first MRI order went out in April of last year. I have the right to do whatever is necessary to get treated. Patience is over. Even though my nightmares are increasing.

All because of people like you who have no idea who they are hurting. My only regret is that you don’t have another three day weekend to enjoy while the rest of us wait for help. Damn you. And your team!

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Art as Big as the Land

Never saw their installations in person but I enjoyed seeing them on televisions, the film clips always too short.

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Intermountain Healthcare is Sick

On Friday I spent a wretched day with Intermountain Healthcare (external link) as I tried to get completed what should have been a routine treatment.

This MRI has taken four months to arrange and it is now only partly done. It is unknown when the rest will be completed.

In the meantime, my hands are rapidly closing in on becoming disabled, while everyone at Intermountain and their contractors goes home to a happy three day weekend without returning my calls.

America does have the best medical practitioners and technology in the world. No question. But they are worth nothing if they are trapped in a system in which no one communicates and in which insurance companies reject even routine claims.

I’d say it is shameful behavior if any of them could be shamed. I think that not possible, as they are now the picture of the disease that is cost cutting, bureaucratic, disinterested corporate medicine. A Nevada CEO who isn’t an M.D. Need I say more?

Intermountain page here (internal link) Coming soon — intermountainhealthcaresucks.com Your Place to Party!

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My Birthday Present to My Brother

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4th of July

4th of July

Soundgarden with the late Chris Cornell

Shower in the dark day clean sparks diving down
Cool in the waterway where the baptized drown
Naked in the cold sun breathing life like fire
I thought I was the only one but that was just a lie

‘Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

Pale in the flare light the scared light cracks and disappears
And leads the scorched ones here
And everywhere no one cares the fire is spreading
And no one wants to speak about it

Down in the hole Jesus tries to crack a smile
Beneath another shovel load

And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July

And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July
July,
July

Now I’m in control
Now I’m in the fall out
Once asleep but now I stand
And I still remember your sweet everything
Light a Roman candle and hold it in your hand

‘Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July
‘Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July