[Rhodes22-list] Lynn's reply and comment therein

[Hank]

There is a good chance that there is only one or two oncologists for a
specific problem.  For example, I am currently trying to get a Torn Rotator
Cuff repaired and at the hospital I use, there are probably fifteen surgeons
in the Ortho dept but only 3 who do shoulder problems and appointments are a
PITA to get.  Lynn's posting of the oncology staff does not at all refute
the original comment as the clinical duties of those doctors is not
provided.

Hank


On 4/22/08, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
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> Lynn's point is accurate in describing the faculty at McGill:
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> http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/oncology/facandstaff.asp
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> However, he did not prove or illustrate that there was any choice
> available
> other than the one she went and used.  Furthermore he did not rebut the
> time
> to see an oncologist.  Specifically, under a controlled plan, she may have
> only been permitted to see certain oncologist.  The writer's experience
> may
> have lead to his limited view that is all that were available.  It may
> have
> been all that were available to him in a reasonable time.
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> Lynn's statement, "So the guy who wrote that is a patent liar" may be true
> or maybe the writer's
> remarks are from his perspective of the way it worked out.  Under
> controlled plans does not mean automatic competent care.
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> The person in charge of care under a controlled plan may or may not be a
> competent and knowledgeable administrator.  Most likely that person is not
> medically trained to make the medial decisions but rather goes to a list
> of
> illness descriptions with numbers to determine if the procedure is
> allowed.
> Seldom do the numbers say that the care must begin today.
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> Typically to begin a plan of treatment under a controlled plan, even
> doctors
> with medical training must get approval.  The doctor does not make the
> decision, the plan does.  The doctor becomes a puppet on strings.  And
> often
> if it is an expensive treatment, the decision goes to a committee.
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> So while the illustration is overtly antagonistic, so was Lynn's reply.
> Again, a government controlled plan does not mean a competent plan, nor an
> effective plan.
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> Socialism has been demonstrated to be a way to achieve failure.  The best
> doctors choose not to be puppets controlled by strings.  So what is the
> skill level of doctors left in the system?
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> The following cartoon, peviously posted illustrates to me the competence
> of
> many contolled plan adinistrators, were the pirate is understood to be the
> plan adiministrator (Sorry Lee):
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> http://www.nabble.com/file/p16628235/Cowboys%2Band%2BPirates.tif
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> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
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