So to the facts maam, nothing but the facts. In 2008 the now defacto New York City Health Commissioner (thank heavens he is not running New York City Health Department anymore, provable lies on paper, in due time, in due time) claimed a study that showed women are using mammograms a lot less in the city and all the hyperbole therein. Doc Frieden was scratching his head again, wonder if its the same bald spot scratched during the BIG well what do you know? cotinine crisis. LOL New in the want ad section is there is a need for a director of the obesity crisis. Oh come on...
Anyway take it for what its worth. The claim is that black women are more proactive about doing their mammograms. That black women die from breast cancer more than any other race.
The reason why women do not get mammograms is due to inadequate insurance and no insurance provider.
Here is the study. http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2008/pr068-08.shtml
Lol yeah before you turn the volume down on me listen to my why. I did do a mammogram and the imaging center xrayed one side twice. They did not have me wait in the office for the results. They just dumped me back into the same construction worker/disrobed women waiting space for the bone density which totally took 45 minutes. No time frame was given to me. Several weeks later I asked my primary physician so how was the report. They said I had to go get the report. They said that since I had not heard anything everything was fine. I called up the imaging center and I was told the same and they additionally stated that doctor's offices were messed up and they had sent the bone-density test.
I say wait a minute you did not send me the mammography results. Listen here I inadvertently went the same name hospital for the chest xray on a Saturday and they had the results in my doctor's office on the following Monday (all of two days). If they had done the bone density and the mammogram on Saturdays it would be done already. The representative answered that they would send the bone density results again and would speak personally to the radiologist. There were no calls.
One day maybe 7-8 days later I received a letter. We would like you to come in and have additional mammographic views and a sonogram. Even if these results are negative we do not rule out biopsy. When I visited my primary physician she did not have the report in her file. I broke the news to her. She would not take my copy but ask her assistant to get the report.
That's when she gave me the scare routine. I just sat their calmly. LOL I've seen that fat ass routine way too often. I am not a simple person. I know a lot. I particularly know a lot about my body. My body was not going to undergo more radiation under the baboons who last did it. Additionally by this time I had already received a $300 bill for the mammogram from Care Core and a determination letter from Hip/Medicaid. This was not an emergency and this was not authorized.
LMAO baboons for sure. My primary physician ordered this routine test through the Medicaid/HIP system and gave me the referral. I made the appointment and the pre-certified the appointment. When I came in they again precertified and I have the printout from such certification. I remember complaining that their digital signature machine did not let me write REFUSE. That is if they did anything fancy with this routine checkup I did not authorize it and I would not pay for it.
They were well everybody has to pay something. I'm saying there is a bonafide reason why I have medicaid. I live in poverty. I don't have to pay a thing. So we better get it straight right now or I'm walking out right now. Then they tried to mollify me.
haha the beauty of my blog is I can publish and edit because google censors me when they don't like what I say. That's often. However affiliates are always writing me to come on board. LOL the Gov will put a splat on your parade.
So below I'm like this point of text. hmm not so good will go over it again and weed and hack and faint lol ... I did turn the radiator down all the way finally with two rubber pot holders. Temperature 86.8 degrees humidity 41% not good. This is Central Harlem quality, already been written, in the files.....
Anyway they were the devil's morgue, full of incompetence and bald xray technicians. Construction workers were working on rooms and walls in full view of our death row of non-trendy open robes, so dullsville and we waited forever.
Anyway that was my first mammamogram ever and I said never again.
Then they pull this shit on me and to boot make me pay for it. I told Medicaid until you get this straight I will not do any more investigations upon my perfect body. I am the one who pursued levels of Medicaid, HIP and Care Core to get that record straight and that was in December that I hope that its finally straight.
LOL and the only thing I know is that my feet hurt and she doesn't care what the foot doctor said. She sneers. He said I have to have both feet operated on and be off of them for eight months. That I already had lost one toe joint and that toe was arthritic and the bone protuberance is also arthritic. Other than that beautiful feet.
Lol she can't say a thing the foot doctor said its totally covered by my insurer because its quality of life. You can say that again. Feet is totally it for me, its everything.
Yeah and all I can think of is I can't get that dang radiator valve to close and its been well over 87 degree F in my apartment for the last few days.
I'm like is this hell all over again, back to 135th street and MalcolmX, lol below freezing in winter and in the Summer the heat went on we had 130 degrees. I still have the digital thermometer that I purchased for those rather special climate conditions of a tax-free profit making HPD coop. LOL what a bunch of losers.
I have this rule not to touch the valve if you don't need to. So all this time I haven't; the temperature was alright up until really maybe Friday. I think because the temperatures are milder outside and maybe some of the people are leaving their windows open? Usually warped windows or open windows cause a radiator to go uzi on the tenants.
Ok guess I have to email those bloomin' landlords repeat valve not shutting down too hot, the refrigerator is ruining my food and the toilet takes anywhere from 5-8 flushes per use. Lol and when I take my clean clothes out of my watertight storage box they smell like tobacco and I'm allergic to it. That will be the eighth letter I have written my landlord.
Ok so I'm sitting there in this doctor's office thinking about the above while my primary doctor going on about breast cancer and she is totally getting upset with me. I'm like this is a very personal issue with her. Her mother died from breast cancer.
Her statistics are way off. She says 1 in 4 women die of breast cancer. LOL not so. Some fact missing with that, not in any of the races does 1 in 4 women die of breast cancer. Breast cancer is #2 (lung cancer #1) for women though.
Yah and what have I written in this blog repeatedly in the past?
That second hand smoke is the #1 cause for breast cancer in women mid-50s and up who are exposed to it. Indeed I was. My overtenant and Landlord would not come and see about the smoke, they refused. They said that smokers have a right to smoke in their apartment. I replied they are smoking in my apartment not theirs. The entire two years I lived in that apartment I was working with the Health Department of New York City, HUD and the civil court. Finally after a year and a half, a bought judge not even reading what was going on with the case said its no sale that the apartment had no value to you. See how they loll about and position it. The case was settled in my favor but that does not mean that there are not other entries there are many significant re-entry points that I became aware of in the last two months. :P losers.
Yep we will be having another round with those defendants but this time they will have a lot of company. So it would behoove me to get this done as we are going to have some real hell going on in civil court for sure over this. I did not need to be spurred on my primary physician. I've been dealing with it, indeed. Struggling with that along with a very long list of things of incredible importance. You know minimum food, a roof over my head.
There were major financial considerations of going forward with this. The fact is the government insurer boldfacely refused to pay for the first mammogram. Imagine a routine mammogram given free to some women. My primary doctor prescribed it. Do get the drift of why women are not getting mammograms besides the very inhumanity of the test and its history. Mammograms killed a group of women because it was misused and now these thugheads are saying the target is now women 40 and over. So women aren't flocking to your death chambers because you are real boobs.
I do not want to give baboons any cancer business. I am practicing smart consumerism and three months is nothing and it wasn't up to me, those baboons did it all by themselves. Oh and you do so have to know that they gave graphs and all sorts of things to my primary physician regarding the state of my mammographies that I did not get. I am going to ask for them. Even the letter that they wrote her was different from the one they wrote me. I can totally understand medicine, its my body and its not yours.
The #1 reason they lost my business: did not give me results within a few hours and xrayed one side twice.
#2 said there was nothing wrong
#3 when asked for the report hemmed and hawed
#4 had to be asked to go get the report #5 billed me triple for one prescribed mammography
#6 along with Care Core, Hip and Medicaid they bullied me like a bill collector
#7 I really did not like their desk and technician bedside manner, it blows.
Yep you are fired! and while I am in court justifiably crucifying The New York State Labor Department I am going to file a case on you too because you are a loser who should really be put out of business.
My primary physician says so you know you have been living with this breast cancer for three months. Its your fault. I'm like not so. I said if they had acted properly this would have been done with and gone, not an issue. But they have not acted properly, not on any score.
I said I was waiting to get the colonscopy done and then I was changing providers. Now I have an unemployment benefits law case coming up and honestly, I can't do both.
I will try but if I get ocular migraine again I am quitting wherever we are.
Just to get the drift of my physicians focus. She wanted to know if I had the pap smear test. Yes three months ago and its in your files. Its fine. She was disbelieving.
Then she wasn't like congratulations on having a great colon she was like did they do the biopsy on that benign polyp. Totally off the wall. Of course they did and it was minute, infinitestimal. .433 mill. Nothing to write home about. That gastro doctor was like this primary phys also. Oh you should have had that six years ago. You probably have polyps the size of a grapefruit. hahaha And the matter is that I did not. I am perfect.
Look I am most interested in quality of life. I do not have quality of life. I have a life that is hell. I do not wish to add bamboons to create yet another hell of billings to figure out for Medicaid/HIP. I am not their accountant, surprise. They should pay me. Losers! I will not tolerate an imaging center that does not give you your results within an hour while you wait. I will not tolerate an imaging center that really doesn't have a doctor available in the office for this second screening.
My friend told me Eastern is good. They told me I need another provider and I can get that one. I will do that sometime tomorrow while giving the New York State Labor Department due hell and of course signing up for Earned Benefits from lovely Seedco with the lovely pack of lies on the latest Benefits sheet. $66 a week my Ass!
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