Comments on: Disability disappointment http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68616 Anonymous Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:37:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68616 Don't have insurance and don't have a disability payment coming in? If you work at it you can. By working at it, I mean eat like a like a glutton, sit on your couch, smoke meth, crack, or whatever. Perhaps you can develop intractable back pain, neuropathy, renal failure, psychosis and then suck the taxpayer for whatever you can get. Don’t have insurance and don’t have a disability payment coming in? If you work at it you can. By working at it, I mean eat like a like a glutton, sit on your couch, smoke meth, crack, or whatever. Perhaps you can develop intractable back pain, neuropathy, renal failure, psychosis and then suck the taxpayer for whatever you can get.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68611 Anonymous Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:41:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68611 Anon 10:13 I know more doctors' kids who are going to law school than to medical school. Guess this jives with a report I saw where 20% of the home buyers in the best neighborhood of my city were lawyers last year compared to only 5% who were physicians. Anon 10:13 I know more doctors’ kids who are going to law school than to medical school. Guess this jives with a report I saw where 20% of the home buyers in the best neighborhood of my city were lawyers last year compared to only 5% who were physicians.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68609 Anonymous Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68609 Gasman, a tear came to my eye reading that story. Perhaps some of our lawyer bloggers on this site could get their kids into the family business too. They could share the KY jelly! Gasman, a tear came to my eye reading that story. Perhaps some of our lawyer bloggers on this site could get their kids into the family business too. They could share the KY jelly!

]]> By: Gasmanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68605 Gasman Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:03:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68605 Disability is a way of life. Not the actual disability, but the expectation of the disability payment.<br/><br/>I was evaluating a 12 year old child with complaint of low back pain. Through the history it became apparent that the parents were hoping for some sort of declaration of disability for the child, in addition to prescription of opiates for the duration of her pain.<br/><br/>The rest of the social history tells the whole story: mother was on complete disability for low back pain, father was on disability for low back pain, both have been on prescriptions of oxycontin for years. They were merely hoping to get their kid into the family business at a young age. A prodigy! Disability is a way of life. Not the actual disability, but the expectation of the disability payment.

I was evaluating a 12 year old child with complaint of low back pain. Through the history it became apparent that the parents were hoping for some sort of declaration of disability for the child, in addition to prescription of opiates for the duration of her pain.

The rest of the social history tells the whole story: mother was on complete disability for low back pain, father was on disability for low back pain, both have been on prescriptions of oxycontin for years. They were merely hoping to get their kid into the family business at a young age. A prodigy!

]]> By: Alexandra Lynchhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68603 Alexandra Lynch Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68603 Unfortunately, some jobs won't simply let you take a day for "mental health"; i.e, general exhaustion on either the mental or physical levels, without getting a physician's note that there's something physically organically wrong. <br/><br/>And many lower income/working class people can afford the medication they need for their disorder only on disability. This leads to a hideous dilemma in which the meds let you work, but you can't afford the meds unless you're working, and you can't work without being on the meds for a while, and you can't afford the meds without having worked for a few months. Unfortunately, some jobs won’t simply let you take a day for “mental health”; i.e, general exhaustion on either the mental or physical levels, without getting a physician’s note that there’s something physically organically wrong.

And many lower income/working class people can afford the medication they need for their disorder only on disability. This leads to a hideous dilemma in which the meds let you work, but you can’t afford the meds unless you’re working, and you can’t work without being on the meds for a while, and you can’t afford the meds without having worked for a few months.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68588 Anonymous Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/disability-disappointment.html#comment-68588 Nothing is as frustrating in the ER as to believe a patient's story of illness, to do a complete workup, to find out it's normal, and then when you go to discharge them they get angry and verbally abusive as they try to negotiate with you a longer work-note. I've had to call security to physically remove a patient when he became physically threateing and litigous when I wouldn't give him a week-long note for low back pain. Nothing is as frustrating in the ER as to believe a patient’s story of illness, to do a complete workup, to find out it’s normal, and then when you go to discharge them they get angry and verbally abusive as they try to negotiate with you a longer work-note. I’ve had to call security to physically remove a patient when he became physically threateing and litigous when I wouldn’t give him a week-long note for low back pain.

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