#WorkCompsters Dispute Location of Body Part known as BRAIN? D’oh
Want a peak into the world of a #WorkComp #Brain Injury Survivor?
Thanks #Wyndham, #Grancell, and #CNA, and all the #WCAB peeps and #CAAA lawyers who couldn’t/wouldn’t help me! @ProPublica
[New TBI Survivor asks if anyone ever has challenges getting groceries home after shopping diligently…]
Linda: Wait till you start using lists, and really focus on tasks at hand…then get everything on the list and leave a bag or two of paid groceries in the cart and wonder for hours where the stuff is that was checked off on the list…. unsure emoticon
Or when you splurge on some great hair products and can’t find them to save your life…. for months, then find them in a cupboard where they don’t belong… gasp emoticon …. Welcome to the World of Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors….!
Have you seen a Speech Therapist yet? Occupational Therapist?
They helped me see that I can easily do tasks with TWO – STEPS. That third step can really kick butt…. like making coffee: 1) put coffee in maker 2) turn pot on 3) wonder why coffee is spilling all over the counter; find pot in dishwasher; try again; 1) put fresh dry coffee in maker; put pot in maker 3) wonder why coffee isn’t done yet….. unsure emoticon
[ Another new TBI Survivor asks if anybody else sleeps all the time ]
LINDA: I slept most of the first year. COGNITIVE FATIGUE is a real butt kicker. Sometimes after a long drive to a doctor’s evaluation, I had to find a safe shopping center to park and rest. Sometimes I still have to find a safe place to nap while travelling here and there. I carry a blankie. unsure emoticon
One idiot neurologist actually wanted me to drive 100 miles each way to his office WITHOUT SLEEP and only HIS office with HIS technician for a ‘sleep deprived EEG’ that second month.
Wow, I told the lawyer I was injured not stupid, and requested a smarter neurologist. The response? Termination of benefits, and begin of the ‘kicking to the curb.’ ‘Curb kicking’ went into full motion, with other bullying and terrorism practices by ‘the Defense’ upon clear diagnosis of brain injury, and hasn’t stopped yet; ongoing since January 9, 2012. Yeah, in America! Ain’t that awful.
WorkCompsters apparently only treat brain injury in California with the ‘rest and wait and wait and wait and wait till you’re kicked to the curb, they hope you die’ program.
Wyndham has paid the big premiums for that sort of WorkComp Insurance Policy for it’s injured workers from CNA aka America’s Casualty insurance firm. It’s pretty similar in other states and nations. Same crowd of #WorkCompsters?
My friend and teacher, Michelle Wild, just recently released an Apple app for the brain injured population. It is called Manage My Fatigue. YOU could write a great article about Michelle Wild and her 25 plus years of work helping people with brain injuries develop compensatory strategies… She also has a website called making cognitive connections… I think the address is ID4theweb.com. There is a wealth of information there… Worth checking out.
My date of injury was January 9th 2012… Living without much working memory… is another butt kicker… as is the rule about ’embrace the new you’… Easier said than done. ☆♡◇☆♡◇☆ #InjuredWorkersUniting #SilentNoMore
Are Lawyers the Nouveau Sonderkommando for WorkCompsters? Sure seems like it, huh? http://wp.me/p3GTyU-EC Here’s a peak into the world of a #WorkComp #BrainInjury Survivor… For What it’s worth…. Also it’s a request for referrals to lawyer up. Yeah, SunTzu suggests using the enemies equipment when necessary. Thanks. Linda
WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. HAVE A NICE DAY.
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From: Linda Ayres
To: elena_vega – CorVel
Cc: fred.sachs ; SReubens ; michael.dougherty ; LINDAAYRES ; wynlinda ; workcomplinda ; mary.falvey ; tina.jordan
Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 7:08 pm
Subject: Linda Ayres vs. Wyndham Worldwide et al / CORVEL NON-RECOMMENDATIONS AND CLAIM EVALUATIONS FOR 2013
Dear Elena,
Thanks for the tip on DWC-IMR Maximus processes. I hope it helps! We’ll see! Another favor?
I am compiling information on all the non-recommendations and claims evaluations since date of injury, 1/9/12. Apparently I do not have the 2013 correspondence, from CorVel, as much of it was sent by your company to the former defense counsel, after you had been properly noticed to cease and desist. Some of it, if I ever received it, I may have simply misplaced. The pieces I have found do not show proof of service to me. You may recall my emails regarding violations of my HIPPA rights and continued anyway.
If you will kindly send me everything for 2013 I would appreciate it so I don’t have to sort it with the pieces I do have.
Will you please email me Friday morning the complete Non-Recommendations and Modifications and Claims evals for all of Dr. Darren Bergey’s requests for treatment in 2013. Everything from Ballard Brain Rehab, to chiropractic, to accupuncture, to neurology, psychology, neuro-psychology, neuro-optometry and more.
Prior to Dr. Bergey, 2/2013, all failures to provide medical care were handled directly by both the defense law firm and the adjuster, both non-physicians, cleverly avoiding a paper trail. The information and assistance office was of no help to me, and in fact, when I inquired how to deal with the grossly inaccurate and possilby fraudulent reports (per DIR definition of Fraud with intent to deny medical care) ( of Dr. Zardouz, Dr. O’Brien, and Dr. Kent, I was advised to simply write a note saying,”I object to these reports.” I did as instructed, but the fraud was never addressd, and these faulty reports are continuously used as weapons of continuous and egregious harm to me. That is being dealt with shortly, as there are interested Tasks Forces in the Offic of the DA, not the office number Dr. O’Brien dared me to report him to. It’s been over 3 years and I am continuously denied the right to be heard by a WC Judge on my right to medical care. I’m not the only injured worker self-represented. That must change, and it may take Congressional intervention. At least their looking now, huh?
By copy, if Fred Sachs, adjuster, has medical evidence of 2012 denials of requests by Dr. Daniel DeGoede,, Clinical Psychologist I was sent to by the Wyndham Worldwide Employee Assistance program who was the initial PTP and worked closely with Daniel Elliott to organize the first neuro-psychology exams and then briefly Dr. Uppal, appointed by the first law firm I retained, and then the requests by Dr. Marcel Ponton, Clinical and Neuropsychologist, appointed by the Court after a hearing in June 2012 exposing that the MPN was never properly served, and seemed not to exist at all.— PLEASE SEND ME THE 2012 DETERMINATIONS OF DENIALS OF MEDICAL CARE… Doctors didn’t deny, it was non-doctors, but there has to be a process to deal with such matters as well.
The adjuster and I worked very closely in February 2012, trying to find providers in the field of neurology and neuropsychology. Daniel cheated Dr. DeGoede out of several agreed upon and authorized sessions, and left me without any support whatsoever. Had care been authorized in 2012, I would not be writing this email today, and I would not have lost the last 3+ years of my life to such a vile system. Oh well, it is what it is, huh?
Investigative Journalists have taken a further interest in my dilemma, and with all the buzz about CorVel and ProPublica etc….. I want to be able to provide them with all the facts, so people can draw their own conclusions about my case, and the discrimination of injured workers with disabilities like mine, my age, and my gender. . I need the materials also because my civil rights are being further violated by the defense, and the Department of Justice has invited me to share more information, which I will gladly do.
By copy to the Defense firm, while you have repeatedly advised that you have no expertise in ADA and employment law, continued harm caused by your firm will be handled by the proper authorities in due course. Google FEHA, ADA, and Brain Injury.
Ok, pretty please send those 2013 CorVel non-recommendations that I am not copied on and don’t have to me electronically, and was not provided by the PTP, so I didn’t learn much about Maximus till recent corruption articles.
BTW, many of your superiors seem to have quite an appreciation for my LinkedIn profile. Please let them know there is no reason to stalk my wall, I accept all invitations to LinkUp…. friends and enemies alike. The Defense attorney and the Wyndham Risk Manager seem to have a relationship that goes ‘way back’ and I am now fearful that such a conflict of interest may be a factor in the continuous harm to me, and that department’s repeated failures to communicate with me and it’s failures to conduct a long over due claim audit. Michael would never even help me when I asked for help with reimbursements and TTD payments. Awful. That New Jersey politician is taking some serious heat for promoting the CorVel allegations of employee fraud being “40%”…. I suggested it might be an internal statistic, on the low side. Corporate fraud is of extreme interest in the news today. Let’s give them the facts on my case and let the public draw it’s own conclusions, shall we?
I hope most of you never have to experience the extreme horrors this WorkComp charade has put me through.
Linda Ayres, In Pro Per
reolinda@aol.com
wynlinda@gmail.com
CALIFORNIA
When YOU tell the simple horrors of YOUR work comp experience, do the experts try to dismiss it as hyperbole? Must be comforting to them, yes?
Feb 5, 2015 – Mayor Betsy Price is calling for an audit into workers’ compensation cases … In a statement issued Thursday, the company, CorVel Enterprise …
Jan 31, 2015 – Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price is demanding answers from the city’s contracted insurance company, the CorVel corporation, which handles Fort Worth
What would Dr Yamacrook do? “Win?Win?” situations.. IME’s
IF YOU HAVE A JOB, STAY SAFE. IT’S BRUTAL IF YOU’RE HURT ON THE JOB!
Do you think this means that because CNA refuses to get me training and treatment so I can return to work (it’s been over 3 years now) that they are breaking this law? And making my employer, WyndhamWorldwide a party to such a law breach?
Looks like disabled people are allegedly already protected… hmmm….just found some things on FEHA while looking for other things…. I have no interest in going to law school to save my life, but surely they can see the value of the state run program, COASTLINE ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY PROGRAM….they have been helping people with Brain Injuries return to the community and work for over 25 years. All CNA can approve is some chiropractic, acupuncture and evaluations for over 35 doctors…. for brain injuries? D’oh! ain’t that nothing!
“12940. It is an unlawful employment practice . . . [f]or an employer, because of the . . . , physical disability, mental disability, . . . of any person, to refuse to hire or employ the person or to refuse to select the person for a training program leading to employment, or to bar or to discharge the person from employment or from a training program leading to employment, or to discriminate against the person in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment. “ (Gov. Code, § 12940, subd. (a).)
WHO IS PROTECTED?
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE:
PEOPLE WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
PEOPLE WHO HAVE A RECORD OR HISTORY OF A DISABILITY
PEOPLE OR ARE REGARDED OR PERCEIVED AS HAVING A DISABILITY.
ALSO PROTECTED ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY
Yo! #SOS!! Anybody know a fearless CALIFORNIA #WorkersComp attorney or law firm with #TBI brain injury expertise, unafraid to take on an international racketeering crowd??
“The Truth is like a Lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. TRUTH WILL DEFEND ITSELF.”
See more: ASK ABOUT WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAINS http://t.co/oaiDkijq8Q via @LucyOccupy WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.
The WC case in question has been mis-handled by 3 idiot attorneys looking to make a quick buck rather than do the right thing (as in facilitate reasonable and appropriate medical care…. sending a brain-injured worker to a series of Orthopedic Surgeons just somehow doesn’t sound right, huh? D’oh Their neurologist, a guy from Tehran, suggested ‘over the counter analgesics’, and don’t come back).
The injured worker is currently representing herself….. with dramatic loss of executive function and other cognitive impairments….. but she can type like a maniac!! ;D
If you know someone with legal expertise, please let Lucy know at LucyOccupy@aol.com or leave a message at 1 760 368 7236. It’s California Workers Comp Case ADJ8181903. 🙂
If you know anybody at the National Enquirer, 60 minutes, 20/20 etc AND YOUR FAVORITE FB GROUP WALLS….. Lucy’s got names and facts and will not be hushed. EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY MAIMED AND KILLED BY THE WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAIN providers. FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS STAY IGNORANT.
Denied medical care is lethal in a brain injury….. so…. nothing more to fear. Bring ’em on. Between psychopaths, gangsters, white collar criminals and Fukushima’s 1,946 known lethal isotopes, it’s been a tough day.
If you don’t know someone who can help, see Lucy AND ALL surrounded by Light, and a LEGION of Angels, and keep the faith. Let the TRUTH do its work. WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW, till last gasps.
Also, review the early blogs and wall posts in ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW and LUCY OCCUPY SAID and ALL REACTORS LEAK ALL THE TIME and get yourself up to speed on the ELE triggered by #Fukushima. It ain’t over people. Wake up. THINK LOCALLY. ACT GLOBALLY. OCCUPY VIRTUALLY….. TILL LAST GASPS. TAKE CARE OF ONE ANOTHER.
Maybe Scott Olsen’s group has some good legal teams?? Lucy has found a couple good brain doctors and would love to share resources. If you know Scott, have him or his people get in touch with Lucy, would you??
There used to be an Anon-Legal Group….. I wonder if they might have any good lawyers familiar with such matters?? The maiming and killing of American workers seems to be part of the ol’ depopulation events happening everywhere, huh? Please pass along Lucy’s SOS, if appropriate. It’s sort of an immediate life-‘n-‘death beyond #Fukushima issue.
A civil rights group, or class-action group might be helpful too. Lucy’s friend with the Work-Comp issue needs some legal help NOW.
The evil is horrendous. The untreated conk-on-the-head, followed by a second-impact blow when the first conk was untreated and medical care has been denied and self-procured care interrupted since 1/9/12…. apparently shortens a life-span by 7-8 years.
The A2 lady lawyer is moving in for a kill now. She can sure write fiction, and seems to fit the profile of a true psychopath. Fiction in a Courtroom is called other things.
Master Sgt. Woods
A ‘seer’ suggested there may be orange jumpsuits in the future for a ring of doctors and lawyers and insurance providers…..for fraud and collusion to commit fraud to deny medical care to an injured worker in California. EEGs will be on the blog soon….. people need to have more info on TBI. Arm yourself with facts. Ask a Soldier.
Here’s more info ASK ABOUT WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAINS http://t.co/oaiDkijq8Q … and yeah … it’s Lucy’s head…. the first conk was 1/9/12 and second impact was 2/4/12, and before racing to the emergency room, she made sure all the #Fukushima posts were out so you would have the most current info available, in case she didn’t come back from the ER.
She also sent her employer, #WyndhamWorldwide, a little note that ….. denial of medical care to an injured worker is…. not very nice and against the #WorkersComp law.
“Research shows over 300,000 veterans are suffering with TBI. When are we as a nation going to “Wake up” and demand better treatment for these Americans?….” VT 10-23-2011
“…we should mention the 26,000 veterans who have been discharged after service, dishonorable and undesirable discharges, many related to TBIs that are undiagnosed and the 500,000, TBI patients, awaiting disability compensation….” VT 10-4-2011
Every movement…. needs a flower….
Meanwhile, back to Corporate America…
FB FRIEND: Wow this is a horror story on the job injury should be covered 100%! And a TBI especially! Over the counter Analgesics?? As in take Tylenol & don’t call me in the morning? TBI is serious stuff.. ! Wow.. blown away again dear Lucy. Seems the faces & the names change but the game is the same. xox
Lucy Occupy Thanks …..will convey your kind thoughts to the Friend fighting the good fight….. She says it’s like fighting NAZI SONDERKOMMANDOS… in suits and white jackets….. committing atrocities against US Workers…. and getting away with murder…. politely…. not unlike the killings and maimings by Fukushima ….. and there are an increasing number of soldiers with TBI……
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There are parallels to be drawn/dots to connect …. RADIATION POISONING causes Loss Of Executive Function….. so does a head trauma….. So, even like Scott Olsen……TBI fighters are at the front lines…… and it’s another reason to STAY OUTTA THE STREETS….. THINKING LOCALLY, ACTING GLOBALLY, OCCUPYING VIRTUALLY….. Lucy’s & Lisa’s friends MUTTERS regularly…. OCCUPY WYNDHAM!!! Hanz Franning KNOWS!!! XOXOXOX
Lucy Occupy Lucy’s friend, on the story below, also muttered, ‘YO. DOC, WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW…. and YO, DOC…. we do not forget…..EXPECT US.’
Workers’ Comp’ Insurance Company Doctor, and Secondary Treating Physician who has refused to see the Injured Worker since 3/18/13, after a one-time evaluation, sent the following correspondence, via certified mail, return receipt requested…
~ “I am in receipt of the numerous letters that you have been sending to my office. It has gotten to the point that I am putting you on notice that if you continue with the harassment, slander and incorrect statements, I am going to retain an attorney and brain a lawsuit against you. I recommend that you stop your malicious acts immediately.” Neurologist, Appointed Secondary Treating Physician, QME – no apparent TBI expertise, does not honor DO NO HARM philosophy toward injured worker.
Injured Worker, Brain Injury Survivor Screams: I AM INJURED, NOT STUPID!!!!
California Neurologist and QME, Qualified Medical Examiner, recommends “over the counter analgesics” as the only necessary treatment for TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY and consequent cognitive impairments…..INSURANCE COMPANY ADJUSTER AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY APPLAUD THE REPORT AND LOOK FOR THE ‘CASE CLOSED’ STAMP. LOOKS LIKE FRAUD, DOESN’T IT??!!
What’s the difference between a northern fairy tale and a southern fairy tale?? How does it relate to workers comp medical and legal questions?? Just suppose….
ONCE UPON A TIME….
MARCH 2013 regarding an untreated TBI injury of a snowy mountain morning in JANUARY 2012….. QME Neurologist recommends “over the counter analgesics” as the only necessary treatment for TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY and consequent cognitive impairments…..
Insurance Company Adjuster uses the apparently false and incomplete information and expensive industry doctor report as a weapon to continue to deny reasonable and appropriate medical care, knowing full well that TBI reduces life span on an ‘AVERAGE’ of 7-8 years, per the Brain Injury Association of America blog sites.
Master Sgt. Woods
Defense attorney and WCAB Information Officer insist that another doctor cannot be designated as treating physician for Injured Worker/Brain Injury Survivor…..and several previously recommended authorization to see non-insurance company neurologists were denied denied denied till the spin came back to this one. What a coincidence,huh?
A Court order was recently obtained to compel defense to use alll medical records, immediately providing missing records (approximately 300 pages) to all recent medical evaluators for supplemental reports!
INJURED WORKER; BRAIN INJURY SURVIVOR:
“‘Over the counter analgesics’ is your onlyrecommendation to treat TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY???? What about my vision, memory, balance, did I say memory, auditory processing of info, processing of info, did I say Memory, immediate and short term, long term is fine…. 1969 was a great year….
Omg!! Let the Veteran’s Administration know, too….. how many Soldiers are returning with consequences of TBI, and all they need too is just a little over the counter analgesic?!! Are you sure?? Based on what scientific evidence do you make this claim??
Is that what the Tehran medical schools teach, or was that supplemental education in the USA?? Shocking discovery. Someone should let NIH know….they have just been allocated gazillions of dollars for brain injury research…. perhaps the funds can now be reallocated to evacuate Japan??? IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL.
Do an internet search: tbi shortens life span? (177,000); workers comp racketeering? (109,000 google results)
“….Most Americans are somewhat distant from the effects of Traumatic Brain Injury. We know, by watching NFL football, that some of our favorite quarterbacks are not playing a game this week, due to the “concussion” that the player received the week before, but we as a nation are ignorant of the brain injuries our veterans have endured….”
“…This is part of the “Great Lie” that the DOD and the VA are perpetrating on our veterans with TBI…..”
ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW; they have severe injured (radiation poisoned!) Workers Comp issues too. It’s a small world after all.
What is LOEF…. Loss of Executive Function?
Remarkable! Thanks for your insights and letter, Doc….. but there are a few other questions about your report…. the attorney suggested I ask the questions directly, and your office demanded that the questions be put in writing, after we clarified that you had indeed been APPOINTED as SECONDARY TREATING PHYSICIAN, as a Neurologist allegedly with current expertise and practice in TBI evaluation and treatment…….
I sent the questions mid-April. Are you still working on the responses??? Tough questions requiring more research? Or was my medical file tossed in the ‘too hard’ pile???
It’s late July, and I’ve done my best to keep you ‘in the loop’ as I seek medical care and implementation of LABOR CODE that required my employer to provide IMMEDIATE, REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CARE when I was injured on the job……
I have self procured enough medical diagnostic evaluations from non-insurance company doctors who DO NO HARM, even recently. Not one of those doctors from Casa Colina or elsewhere used your vision exam that starts out with “LOOK AT MY UGLY NOSE”……
Other doctors have provided some tests tracking my eyes, and STRIPES really send my brain into a spin…..but those doctors had tools and medical equipment….. When they checked my ability to ‘smell’ not one gave me the ‘3 choices’ exam you gave when you pronounced my sense of smell good……
BTW, shortly after your ‘eye exam’ I self-procured a follow up exam with a Neuro-Optometrist…DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EYES CAN BE PERFECTLY HEALTHY AND VISION SERIOUSLY IMPAIRED BECAUSE THE BRAIN DOES THE SEEING, NOT THE EYES? It sounds like some bizarre scientific conspiracy theory, huh??
As more and more studies demonstrating the corrosive effect of psychopathy on government, finance, and business emerge, researchers have begun to explore how our society itself has been molded in the psychopaths’ image …… [Ask about Gaslighting….. do an internet search; draw your own conclusions…]
On the video, see at 13:13 about waking up…… 13:36….”Psychopaths derive their power from the complicity of the general population….” WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW….’SOCIALLY DISTANCE FROM THE PSYCHOPATHS NOW…..’
The Judge made a Court order that you and the others are immediately provided with the omitted missing medical records (about 300 pages of the nearly 1,000 it seemed you had on your desk when you evaluated me….what DID they send you the first time???)
The Judge further requires a supplemental report from you and a few other doctors, so that I might finally be provided with some brain injury medical care….
The attorney for the defense is late in getting them to you, she claims ‘computer problems’…..it’s a huge law firm, and I guess she couldn’t borrow her assistant’s computer to finalize the work that was to have gone out last week…. but it’s still omitting records, so she has to finalize edits to the MEDICAL RECORDS INDEX before sending to y’all…. The parts of my brain that still work, still work good. As I have told every doctor, I’M INJURED NOT STUPID.
INJURED WORKER: Whaaaaat??? You refused to accept the omitted records from me, you refused to see me again, you have provided no further or supplemental reports on my health status, the Courts and Insurance Company have refused to allow me to designate a doctor with brain injury expertise as the Primary Treating Physician, your report is full of gross inaccuracies and I simply quote your bizarre “analgesic” final recommendation that has been used as a weapon toward my death by the Insurance Company Adjuster as ‘evidence’ that I need no ‘further’ medical care….beyond the hard fought for psychology visits to deal with the confusion and misinformation and will, malicious and ILLEGAL DENIALS OF MEDICAL CARE …. and you write such a bizarre letter to me, and send it certified mail, return receipt requested????
#loveyourbrain on twitter
By the way, your office asked me to MAIL all communications, which I have done….fax has continued only on extremely time sensitive matters, as these are LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONS.
“HUMAN SUFFERING MUST END!’
Remember when doctors honored the law,
DO NO HARM….
Remember…. we do not…forget.
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ASK ABOUT WORKERS COMP GRAVY TRAINS…
IF YOU SUSPECT FRAUD, tell your friends and neighbors first, then FILE COMPLAINTS WITH THE DA AND THE WCAB BOARDS.
On the claim form, you will see a message telling you that it is against the law for anyone to commit fraud in order to obtain workers’ compensation benefits or payments or deny an injured worker those benefits. FRAUD is a felony.
This law applies to everyone in the workers’ compensation system, including injured workers, employers, claims administrators, doctors and attorneys. To report fraud, [tell your friends and neighbors first, then] contact a local district attorney’s office or the California Department of Insurance.”
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“down the rabbit hole”, a metaphor for adventure into the unknown, from its use in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW….. Ask About…..Workers Comp Gravy Trains….
Psychopath Alert! Workers Comp is just another DePopOp?!! Son•der•kom•man•dos???!!! 0.0 http://t.co/7Id5JYsFkA
Injured Worker Claims untreated #TBI is like being in a WALKING COMA; Thanks Franz, Mary and Steve and the #WyndhamWorldwide Teams. Just another DePopOp of Predatory Capitalism?? 0.0
.. “Since most people with brain injury live a nearly normal life span (the overall average is seven years decreased life expectancy), they and their families face many serious chronic challenges.”
Is WorkersComp just another example of Sonderkommandos United-for-Profit in C21? Or simply RICO violations?? Or just white-collar/white-jacket criminals trying to keep up with the costs of living??
Is #WyndhamWorldwide a Willing Participant in the Maiming and Killing of Disposable Workers?
Does Franz Hanning “KNOW NOTHING” ???
Does Mary Falvey “KNOW NOTHING” ???
Does Steve Holmes “KNOW NOTHING LESS” ???
WYNDHAM ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER: “You can see any doctor that accepts workers comp insurance. Give them this form.”
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Son•der•kom•man•do
Pronunciation: (zon’dur-ku-man”dō; Ger. zôn’dur-kô-män’dô)
a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
Defense Attorney: “None of the doctors requested a brain doctor to evaluate you.” 7/11/13
Injured Worker Claims untreated #TBI is like being in a WALKING COMA!!!
Dear Doctor(s)….
After the session at Workers Comp Court, my ‘frontal lobe’ felt like a SCREACHING train wreck happened in it, and I slept 18 hours since returning home from the Court events, and I woke up with these thoughts. TBI might be compared to being in a WALKING-COMA, trying to communicate racing thoughts, misfiring through injured neurons and tweaked pathways, for lack of professional descriptions.
Could you kindly fax all medical records of treatments and notes directly to me today, or Monday at the very latest and/or email them to me?? I will forward to the defense attorney, or you can kindly fax them directly to both of us.
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As it stands now, there is only one entry on the Medical Index and it gives the deceptive illusion that I saw Dr. BrainMaestro only once, based on the December report. Aside from the vision therapy I have recently self-procured, treatment with Dr. BrainMaestro is the ONLY BRAIN INJURY TREATMENT RECEIVED TO DATE (at an out-of-pocket expense of $11,750.00 plus tanks and tanks and tanks of gas for hundreds of miles). What is urgently needed from you now is the Doctor’s records for each visit.
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I am scheduled to see another insurance company QME neurologist the end of the month. The last insurance company neurologist said I’m fine, nothing wrong except a little headache now and then, for which the treatment plan suggested was ‘an over-the-counter-analgesic’.
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He was supposed to be my new ‘secondary treating physician’. Bummer. No help whatsoever, and plenty of harm. Maybe it’s not all his fault; he didn’t get all the records from the Wyndham defense counsel and adjuster, and wouldn’t accept them from me. The Judge fixed that.
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We’ll see if he makes things right now. Stay tuned for updates. I am filing a fraud complaint on that doctor and a few others to encourage right action, and to perhaps help ensure no other brain-injured worker has to go through what I am going through now.
I understand that my medical records were subpoenaed by someone, but the defense attorney in my Workers Comp industrial injury matter alleges she does not have them, and I dismissed Attorney #3 who did not provide them with returned documents; my medical records were not included in the files he sent (although medical records of another of his clients were included, but apparently privacy breaches in Workers Comp matters are overlooked as everything is ‘public’ according to Attorney #2, and based on that legal input, I am increasingly comfortable BLOGGING.)
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I have heard that this next evaluating doctor, a neurologist, has integrity and is not ‘owned’ by the insurance company, and that he has a moderate understanding of traumatic brain injury, at the very least. It is possible that he may wish to ask Dr. BrainMaestro questions about his findings. I can only hope he will.
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I am getting “vision occupational therapy” for my ‘occipital lobe’ (I guess) at Casa Colina Rehabilitation Center ….. they recommended twice a week, but it’s too far to drive twice a week, and too hard on my body and brain. They have a day-program that seems to incorporate many of the scientific techniques used in your offices, and I am awaiting an evaluating report from their medical director, a physiatrist and serious brain specialist.
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As you stated in our treatment sessions, my balance has also been adversely impacted by the untreated injuries. At Casa Colina, they have a whole department to deal with ‘vestibular disorders’ disorders as well and I am awaiting evaluation and treatment in that system as well. I hope to have that report for the neurologist as well.
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I ‘get it’ that, as Dr. BrainMaestro advocates, ‘SYSTEM INTEGRATION’ is critical in brain rehabilitation treatments. Even though I did not get to complete all the treatments at your Center (yet!!), the progress made in November/December was life-changing, and I am most grateful.
We are not alone. Never give up. Never give in. Pray for the dead and dying and FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.
I have seen two doctors with a real firm grasp of brain injury and more importantly, the treatment of brain injuries. By copy of this letter, I am encouraging you both to connect, as such a connection may result in greater good for brain injury survivors everywhere.
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I am also encouraging the Brain Injury Association of California http://biacal.org/ and the Brain Injury Association of Americahttp://www.biausa.org/to reach out to you, so that your services and expertise may be offered to more of the Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor networks of dying people.
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Here’s a 9 page report on REPAIRING THE INJURED BRAIN: WHY PROPER REHABILITATION IS ESSENTIAL TO RECOVERING FUNCTION by Dr. Mark Ashley, Chairman of the Board for the Brain Injury Association of California. In the article, Dr. Ashley clearly states…. “Since most people with brain injury live a nearly normal life span (the overall average is seven years decreased life expectancy), they and their families face many serious chronic challenges.”
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He also clearly states the following:
“People who incur a brain injury face a lifetime of challenges. First, many patients are plagued with persistent cognitive, communicative, physical, social, vocational, educational, and psychological issues. Second, brain injury can initiate a number of neurophysiological processes that, in turn, can lead t the development of neurodegenerative and neuroendocrine disorders. Third, a pereson often recalls his [/her] capabilities before he [/she] was injured and is confronted by new limitations every day….”
He goes on to say, “….Treatment of people with acquired brain injury is highly specialized and poorly understood by practitioners in the general medical and allied health fields…”
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[THAT’S NO EXCUSE……. if a doctor does not know, he has no right to claim he knows, and therefore cause irrevocable harm to any brain injured worker!!!]
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It is my prayer that the Judge, once he is provided with the horrific evidence of violations of law and injured worker abuse and fraud by several providers, that the Judge will compel the Insurance company to authorize immediate treatment at both Casa Colina Rehabiliation Center for intensive immediate care and your Center for ongoing long term care.
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With treatment, I understand I could have returned to work within 6 months or so after the injury. So who did denial of medical care serve? Did it uphold the Spirit of the Law??? I THINK NOT.
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I need to stay alive and alert long enough to see some of these crooked workers comp providers tried and convicted for their crimes against humanity. As you know and practice, real doctors DO NO HARM.
By the Grace of God and a Court Order of the Judge yesterday, the defense attorney has been ordered to include all omitted medical records which have been omitted from various requests for doctor evaluations over the course since at least October 2012.
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At the Court offices, the attorney and I reviewed lists of records and I provided her with duplicates of ones I had previously provided, and she came up with another list of ones she also allegedly did not/does not have, including Dr. BrainMaestro’s. That’s the event that triggered this communication, and it just keeps going.
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Defense Attorney’s assistant is repeatedly challenged with accuracy on PROOF OF SERVICE dates and issues of perjury, so it’s possible several of the omitted records were ‘lost’. That’s just another item for my fraud complaint file, and is collecting evidence. NOTE: If the NOTICE OF EXPEDITED HEARING for 7/11/13 didn’t reach the other parties in time (my copy arrived late in the day, on the date of the hearing, and it clearly states,
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“…. I am aware that on motion of the party served, service is presumed invalid if the postal cancellation date or postage meter date is more than one day after the date of deposit for mailing as stated in this affidavit. I declare under penalty of perjury under laws of the state of California that the above is true and correct. Executed on July 3, 2013 [handwritten change to July 5, and postmarked July 9] at Corona, California — Cathy Catastrophe, Declarant. “
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The harm and deceptions continue. The #3 attorney failed and refused to ensure that the complete medical records were provided to the insurance company evaluators and was extremely abusive to me in other ways as well. It took me till now to get in front of the Judge who then compelled the defense to include all records.
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[We’ll see what tricks and deceptions come next, and prepare to expose and expunge expeditiously.]
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The insurance adjuster and attorney prevented me from having a primary treating doctors with expertise in brain injuries, sending me to Orthopedic Surgeon after Orthopedic Surgeon, while denying any and all further test evaluations for head trauma. The current Primary Treating Doctor, an Orthopedic Surgeon, has requested, repeatedly, referral authorization to a neurologist, to a physiatrist, to a speech therapist, a chiropractor, a psychologist and more.
NOT SHOULDER SURGERY!!!
An MRI of my right shoulder was just authorized, and apparently there is a huge tear that the doctor is recommended for surgery, not by him, but to a specialist based on the severity of the tear.
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I advised the defense attorney in Court yesterday of the discovery and without compassion concern or question, she simply said, “Of course you realize that will be denied. It’s not accepted body part” (or words to that effect. The 3D plan of the insurance company to maim and kill me is progressing.
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See The Romano Trust, on behalf of Charles Roman, deceased, Applicant vs. The Kroger Company, dba Ralph’s Grocery Co, permissibly self-insured, administered by SEDGWIC CMA, Defendants. Ask also that your local DA investigates RICO issues. ASK ABOUT WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE NOW…..ask about delays, denials and deceptions about medical treatments for industrially injured workers. ASK AND TELL.
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While you’re at it, ask about the drugging down of such injured workers as well…… one visit to one “Work Comp Doctor” was like…. visiting a MORGUE OF THE DRUGGED, WALKING-DEAD…..coming in for their regular dope deals. SPOOKY JOINT.
Defense attorney also said the referral to the physiatrist was withdrawn by the insurance adjuster, since the referring physician is an Orthopedic Surgeon, not a brain doctor, and their leased/owned neurologist alleges there is no evidence of any injury to me or my brain.
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The adjuster said the authorization to be treated by a physiatrist, and injured workers’ request to have the physiatrist as the primary treating physician was withdrawn because the insurance company neurologist said there’s no objective evidence that he could figure out, so take an over the counter analgesic and don’t come back.
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I guess they forgets I pleaded, repeatedly, on my own and to legal representatives, for a doctor with brain injury expertise all along, since the first diagnosis.
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In December 2012, after they terminated my treatments with your Treatment Center, I asked then that the physiatrist be designated as my Primary Treating Physician. The Workers Comp information officer apparently didn’t know what such a doctor is, and that it is the ACOEM guidelines treating doctor for brain injuries, so I had to get another Orthopedic Surgeon or the ill-reputed neurologist, without knowledge of TBI, I ended up with anyway.
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Since the WCAB Information Officer seemed unfamiliar with the ACOEM guidelines, and did not have a copy to share, nor was the IO able to recommend where to access such information, other than paying approximately $800 for it for a quick reference…..alternate resources were investigated regarding basic brain injury treatments both at the NIH and commerical levels:
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Medical Disability Advisor states: “A PHYSIATRIST CAN BEST ASSESS THE DEGREE OF MENTAL AND FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY FOLLOWING BRAIN INJURY…… participation in the rehabilitation program can include physical, occupation, speech and recreational therapists, social workers and vocational counselors. A coordinated treatment approach from a team of healthcare professional is necessary for treatment to succeed…. In rehabilitation of a head injury, the therapist must sequence activities from easy to more difficult.”
DOES ANYBODY IN THE WORKERS COMP CROWD KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ‘PSYCHIATRIST‘ and A ‘PHYSIATRIST‘????? ONE CAN HELP WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY….. and the Psychiatrist Crowd (particularly of the ‘forensic’ variety) can sincerely aggravate a High-IQ TBI Survivor…… even when the brain trauma has diminished IQ by 15-20 points and caused cognitive impairments…… D’oh!!!
Isn’t it curious that I have seen so many orthopedic surgeons and it took approximately a year and a half for them to identify the shoulder injury, although loss of range of motion and complaints were noted in several reports? I am grateful the current Primary Treating Orthopedic Surgeon requested the MRI. I have complained about shoulder pain all along, but my orthopedic complaints have always been secondary to the brain impairments, and I have been hard-challenged to even communicate the extent of my injuries, and few of the doctors have asked appropriate questions, or inquired further at articulated complaints.
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The experts in brain injuries have a very different set of questions, and don’t dismiss all the complaints under a simple and inaccurate category called, headaches’ like both the insurance company neurologist and his Orthopedic Surgeon referring buddy have done in my case. The physical therapist recently demanded I do exercises leaning in to an open door….which I tried. When I advised, “that makes me feel like my shoulder is going to break” the assistant snapped and said, “Oh! Don’t be ridiculous. Your shoulder is NOT going to break!”…… I guess I was wrong, ‘TEAR FURTHER’ would have been more accurate word finding. o.o
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The adjuster has recently (July) authorized a final 6 chiropractic sessions and, like last year, is unable to find a local chiropractor on the alleged MPN list. The local chiropractor is unwilling to deal with the aggressive bad-faith and failures to pay by adjuster of CNA Claims Plus and no longer accepts workers comp patients at all.
The chiropractor was the first doctor seen after work, when employer responded to the question at approximately 10 am on the date of the injury….….
INJURED WORKER: “Do I have to see any special doctor?”
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WYNDHAM ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER: “You can see any doctor that accepts workers comp insurance. Give them this form.”
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The insurance company insists that was proper notification of their alleged MPN network. Go figure, huh?
The first doctor I ever saw for these injuries is willing to treat me at a discounted cash-pay basis as long as I like. It’s not a BRAIN fix, but it does help alleviate orthopedic pain and other symptoms, but that doctor said there is nothing he can do for the shoulder injury, particularly since it has been so long in being diagnosed via MRI.
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One chiropractor was found about an hour away, and she was not sure she was on the MPN list, as she hasn’t taken a work comp case in a long time, but it took her 5 phone calls to me, with incessant demands that I call the doctor back for this, the adjuster for this, Corvel Corp for that, do it again, and would not even give me her street address, and insisted I write down directions, TWICE, from two different perspectives, and could not grasp the impact of the brain injuries on my abilities to take in and process info audibly….even though I told her so.
She declined to treat. They may find another chiropractor, but I will not hold my breath. The last authorization for chiropractic care was terminated without cause in April 2012, along with benefits…. all in violations of law, without consequence to the perpetrators of said violations….yet.
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One attorney I chatted with in the elevator at the Courts building was encouraging that Justice does prevail. I hope he is right.
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I am screaming my head off now, like my life depends on it, because I feel my life has been totally threatened by these willful and malicious breaches of law and bastardization of the intent of Workers Comp law and benefits and about these violations of humane treatment in Workers Compensation system, for what it’s worth.
A doctor-friend recommended I channel my outrage more positively than on the deaf ears and blind eyes of the doctors and lawyers and corporations complicit in the fraudulent denial of reasonable and appropriate medical care for injuries sustained January 9, 2012 and further injuries sustained with denials of medical care, and interruption of self-procured medical care. I can follow clear directions, if they are simple and don’t have too many pieces to them…… “rote’ is the word I think one doctor suggested of my current skills in tasking and sequencing tasks.
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I have been penalized further for cognitive impairments that gullibyl allowed me to retain 3 different attorneys, each who confirmed they could help get medical care for a brain injured, who evidently, in retrospect, were unable as they are without knowledge of brain injury cases, and without ‘conscience, empathy, emotion, guilt, remorse or soul’. I have been reduced to relying on the Workers Comp Information Officer, who has, since December 2012, apparently provided me with faulty and blatantly deceptive information, in favor of the insurance company, evidenced in my requests on how to request a hearing for medical care, how to request reimbursements for medical expenses and miles, even while I had case law cited ….. I just needed help on the processes to comply with Court guidelines. I trusted these lawyers and law firms I hired when I could hardly speak, let alone think.
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I am asking the Judge to withdraw/remove their liens for their failures to perform in a reasonable manner to adequately represent me, and that their liens add to the harm already caused to me, as a further obstruction to justice and harm to this injured worker. Based on the inaccurate information provided on 3 occasions by the WCAB Information Officer, I am requesting this week an EXPEDITED HEARING to have lawyer liens removed from my case immediately, with due cause and evidence. Had the lawyers simply been truthful of their lack of expertise in brain trauma cases, they could have saved much aggravation, and possibly my life. They have been unwilling to withdraw their liens upon polite request. Polite requests are done. As the Judge reminded me, ‘this train has already left the station’……
Some may label my communications and lists and spreadhsheets as ‘compulsive writing’ but for those who know nothing about TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, TBI might be compared to being in a WALKING-COMA, trying to communicate racing thoughts, misfiring through injured neurons, causing thinking to feel like ‘a screaching train wreck in the frontal lobe’ further distorted by vision impairments.
If you will, please, kindly forward the medical records to me as sooon as possible. My life span depends, to some extent, on truth and courage from doctors of integrity with expertise in Traumatic Brain Injury.
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Thank you.
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Sincerely,
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Injured Worker, Brain Injury Survivor
REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENTS
— DENIED DENIED DENIED
— DENIED DENIED DENIED
Specialty
Requesting DR’S speciality
Date
Ever Authorized?
CHIROPRACTOR
Injured Worker
1/9/2012
MRI – Brain
MD – Family Medicine
1/13/2012
Neurologist [with TBI expertise]
Clinical Psychologist
1/13/2012
Neurologist [with TBI expertise]
MD – Family Practice
1/13/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psychologist
1/13/2012
CHIROPRACTOR
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/21/2012
MRI – Brain
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/21/2012
MRI – Cervical
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/21/2012
Neurologist – referral
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/21/2012
Home Ultra Sounds Machine (???)
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/21/2012
MRI-head and thoracic
MD – Emergency Room
2/17/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Neuropsychologist
2/25/2012
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
Neuro-psychologist
2/25/2012
LUMOSITY BRAIN GAMES
Neuropsychologist
2/25/2012
EEG
Neurologist
3/6/2012
MRI – Brain
Neurologist
3/6/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Neurologist
3/6/2012
MRI- Brain
Clinical Psychologist
3/14/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psychologist
3/14/2012
Neurologist – [with TBI expertise]
Clinical Psychologist
3/15/2012
EEG Neurofeedback
Certified Practioner of EEG Neurofeedback
4/3/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Certtified Practitioner of EEG Neurofeedback
4/3/2012
PHYSIOTHERAPY/PT
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
EEG
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
MRI- Cervical
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
MRI – Thoracic
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
Neuro-Vision Optometry
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/20/2012
EEG Neurofeedback
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
4/23/2012
Neuro-Vision Optometry
Psychologists
4/23/2012
Neurologist – referral to Nudleman
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
4/23/2012
Neuro-Vision Optometry
Physiatrist
4/30/2012
EEG Neurofeedback*
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
7/17/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psycholoigst, Neuropsychologist
7/17/2012
EEG Neurofeedback*
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
8/21/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psycholoigst, Neuropsychologist
8/21/2012
Neuro-Vision Optometry
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
10/1/2012
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
10/1/2012
Neurology – Functional
BRAIN TREATMENT CENTER
12/7/2012
Physiatrist – re-referal
Injured Worker
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PHYSIOTHERAPY/PT
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/9/2013
Neurologist [with TBI expertise]
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/9/2013
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Orthopedic Surgeon
1/9/2013
CHIROPRACTOR
Orthopedic Surgeon
2/15/2013
MRI – Cervical
Orthopedic Surgeon
2/15/2013
Neurologist – referral
Orthopedic Surgeon
2/15/2013
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych –
Orthopedic Surgeon
2/15/2013
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
Orthopedic Surgeon
2/15/2013
PHYSIOTHERAPY/PT
Orthopedic Surgeon
3/20/2013
MRI – Cervical
Orthopedic Surgeon
3/20/2013
4/19/2013
Neurologist – [with TBI expertise] appeal of denial
Orthopedic Surgeon
3/20/2013
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych – appeal re denial
Orthopedic Surgeon
3/20/2013
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/8/2013
Over-the-Counter Analgesics
neurologist
4/8/2013
PHYSIOTHERAPY/PT
MPT
4/17/2013
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
Orthopedic Surgeon
4/24/2013
Speech Therapy w/cognitive remediation
MA, CCC-LSLP
5/1/2013
Neuro-Vision/ Occupational Therapy
Neuro-Optomentrist
5/24/2013
Neuro-Vision PRESCRIPTION CHANGE
Neuro-Optomentrist
5/24/2013
Psycho/Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Forensic Psychiatrist
5/28/2013
CHIROPRACTOR
Orthopedic Surgeon
5/29/2013
MRI – right shoulder
Orthopedic Surgeon
5/29/2013
7/3/2013
Physiatrist – referal
Orthopedic Surgeon
5/29/2013
Neuro-Vision/ Occupational Therapy
MS/OTR – L
6/5/2013
Psychologist / Neuro, Clinical, Psych
Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychologist
4/23/12/
LUMOSITY BRAIN GAMES
Neuro OD
verbally
Chiropractic
14 sessions thru 4/2/12, 6 more pendiing
Physical therapy
8 sessions 4/19-5/8/13
Psychologist /Neuro, Clinical, Psych
17 irregular sessions 1/14-8/21/2012
REQUESTED MEDICAL TREATMENTS
— DENIED DENIED DENIED
Defense Attorney: None of the doctors requested a brain doctor to evaluate you.
