WK> Hello all!
 WK> I had to get a physical today so that the State would be 
 WK> convinced that I have a disability and am not trying to 
 WK> scam them into adapting a van for me.  Since it was my 
Hello Warren and Happy New Year!
     What state agency are you dealing with here?  Is it your van or are is 
the state providing the van and adaptations?
 WK> choice on what physician to go to, I made sure to select 
 WK> someone who was at least conversant with PPS.  The Dr. 
 WK> impressed me with her unwillingness to jump on PPS as the 
 WK> blame for all my ailments (not a good term, but can't 
     I recently had the unfortunate experience of visiting with a neurologist 
who condescendingly informed me that he wasn't  going to just agree to the 
post-polio diagnosis BECAUSE to do so was to admit  that  nothing  could be 
done.  He  just  wanted  to  test, retest,  and then test some more.  Thank 
goodness I  didn't  need him  for  any type of diagnosis for PPS and when the 
 time  comes I'll  tell him 'no thanks,' for all his tests.  I've  found  
that most  doctors are a real pain in the 'rump' (edited  because  the kids 
are awake,) but the few who knowledgeable and/or are willing to learn and 
work with you, rather than on you, are real gems.
 WK> Basically, there is no current medical records on me.  Got 
 WK> to checking and the last time I had been to a doctor was 
 WK> in 1979.  Has something to do with not having insurance. 
 WK> :-}  These doctors nowadays will not even setup an 
 WK> appointment until they have it in writing how they are going to get 
id.
     This is not truly a new situation, it has been happening all along.   
However, it is done more openly now than in years  past.  I remember an 
incident, oh about 1980, when my uncle, then in his sixties,  was  vomiting  
blood.   I  drove  him  to  the  closest emergency  room and since he was 
without insurance, they  refused to  see  him  because he walked in.  I mean  
they  wouldn't  even ascertain  his  condition.  I had to drive him for  
another  half hour  to a public hospital where they admitted  him  
immediately.  They  told me the delay could have cost his life.  It  didn't  
he lived  another 5 or so years, but the point is 'no insurance,  no medical 
treatment,' simple as that.  
     
     Ed Grey
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