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How Can You Live With Yourselves?

I’m continuing to be distressed over the number of phone calls I make to medical offices that are never returned or are returned long after a question needed to be answered, I don’t make many calls. Those I do are … Continue reading

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No Point Talking

There’s no point talking to someone who doesn’t care. Or is too stupid to understand you. A technician at an ophthalmologist’s office told me this afternoon that he had to touch my eye to conduct a test. He had a … Continue reading

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Red Flag Alert

The most often heard comment after someone kills themself is that there were no red flags. No warning signs. No outward appearance of anything wrong. Well, I’ve raised more red flags in these posts and on this Intermountain Health Care … Continue reading

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For Want of a Nail . . .

Medical science is advancing at the same time patient support is retreating. It is as if we have built a Porsche that no one can maintain since no service appointments are available. Or the mechanic is too expensive to afford. … Continue reading

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Welcome to my Nightmare!

Just woke up. Yay! In last night’s installment, I found myself in two different locations, the Los Angeles Valley and the Sacramento, California area. SoCal wasn’t so disturbing.In that nonsense, I was in the middle of a thirty year old … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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