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Your Patient's Bill Of Rights -
Or Lack Thereof

From Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
5-5-5
 
There is almost a complete lack of anything in the media regarding Patient's rights. Perhaps we should expect this, in the land of abortion clinics and cut rate so-called "immediate health care" centers which substitute for real hospitals.
 
Your so-called "rights" as a patient are essentially in two categories:
 
1. HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act of 1996)
 
This pertains to patient records privacy. A copy of the fundamentals of the Act was given to all patients which outlines the rights each individual has. In the HIPPA Act [see 1 for more details] you told that you must be give permission for your records to be shared with any doctor, person, insurance company, etc.... You are also informed that the government for national security reasons can obtain your information without asking you for it, or telling you they stole it (oops - accessed.)
Most of us already realize that for decades they have already been stealing this information. Now you are officially being told this is taking place. (Perhaps 2030, they will also finally decide to tell us the truth about Project Cloverleaf - the chemtrail poisoning of the world.)
 
2. Patient Rights
 
These 'Patient Rights' pertain mostly to being a patient at most hospitals. Each state defines a patient's rights, supposedly to protect you. In New York state for example, you can read it in many languages on the NY state website. [2]
 
Let's look at these rights and just what these REALLY mean. Are you one of the few and fortunate to have not darkened the door of a doctor's office in many years, or have not taken a friend or family member to one? Drop to your knees right now in joy, and give thanks. I'll share with you what you've been missing.
 
This following will help you understand the REAL Patient's Bill of Rights
 
* The right to be charged for an office visit, if you fail to call (i.e., report in) first because you can't make the appointment. Being extremely sick is no excuse. Even if you have to drive yourself 25 miles to the doctor and you're too sick to drive.
 
* You are required to be treated with disrespect. Even though you THOUGHT they worked for you. Just because YOU pay THEM, it doesn't work that way. Your presence at their office serves THEM, not you.
 
* Your can wait for an hour or more at your own expense, not including the time for the actual appointment. You must realize that only the doctor's time is worth money, and not yours. I actually told one receptionist "What makes you think my time is worth less than the doctor's?" She didn't know what to say and flushed into a state of shock. Her training didn't include someone speaking up like me.
 
* You must pay for a DOCTOR to see you, even though an under-trained physician assistant will be seeing you instead. These people can't even write a prescription for a pain killer. No discount is given for seeing this person, either. Today this trick is standard practice.
 
* Don't expect your doctor to return your phone calls (note the plural use of 'calls' here) whether it be during office hours or at night. You are not important, and are only one of thousands of manila file folders on a shelf with many colored tabs on the edge. Being a human being is no excuse to expect ethical medical treatment.
 
* You are required to sit in a waiting room reading outdated magazines which was never properly disinfected, and pick up everyone else's bugs. You shall pay for this privilege with more health problems and with your wallet.
 
* You will be given the "latest" drug samples, complete with serious side effects. This is to cure simple illnesses that usually will go away by themselves. The doctor will NOT tell you about any side effects. If you ask about side effects they will usually say "oh, that's something you don't want to know about. It will just worry you."
 
* During the visit, the doctor will write out a prescription for a seemingly low cost drug. Only later at the pharmacy after the doctor's office has closed, will you discover that some medicines can actually cost up to $15.00 PER CAPSULE. And you're supposed to take some of these drugs for weeks.
 
* You shall be assaulted with endless warning signs in the waiting room - here are a few direct quotes from signs:
 
CO-PAYMENT EXPECTED AT TIME OF VISIT
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CO-PAYMENT, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO RE-SCHEDULE YOU
YOU MUST PROVIDE THE BLUE CHOICE CO-PAY AT TIME OF SERVICE
$25.00 FEE FOR RETURNED CHECKS
$10.00 FEE FOR STATEMENT COPIES
SELF-PAY PATIENTS MUST PAY IN FULL AT TIME OF SERVICE
IF YOU HAVE A PERSISTENT COUGH, ASK FOR A SURGICAL MASK TO PREVENT SPREADING DISEASE
 
* Stand up for a patient's rights, and you can find yourself suddenly looking for another doctor. (Hint - If you have a problem with a doctor where it appears money is more important than your health, just get another doctor. They don't care if you live or die.)
 
* In one office, I was fed up with seeing 8 signs regarding co-pays. I told the receptionist that "money apparently means more to the practice than patient's health does." She muttered something derogatory and slid her glass window closed. I spoke louder to her saying, "I know you can still hear me, and you closed that door because you don't want to hear the truth." The family member told me later that I was forever banned from going back with them to an examining room. To that I said, "Good! I struck a nerve." One doesn't have to be a dentist to inflict a little pain to make a point!
 
* You have the right to be receive a flu shot (not free, of course.) If you ask what is in the shot, the doctor WILL tell you "oh, I don't know what's in it. It just supposed to be what you need this flu season to stay well." Another lie, as the "experts" never get it right. (Read [4] about mercury-based Thimerosol used in vaccines, then decide for yourself if you want that coursing through your veins.)
 
* You have the right to become sicker than you were when you entered that office. Facial contact from your hands handling that disease-laden National Geographic about Apollo landing on the moon, has given you a new virus to fight off. Magazines are the true gift that keeps on giving.
 
* As a hospital patient, you have the right to contract MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) [3] This is a very nasty staph family bug that actually evolved in the operating room. It can kill you far faster than AIDS or most any other disease, perhaps with the exception of Ebola class pathogens. Methicillin is the most powerful anti-biotic available today. It is so potent it reacts with plastic, and is one of the few IV drugs administered in glass. As strong as it is, it can't kill the MRSA bug either. MRSA is almost always fatal, especially if some careless operating room technician or nurse starts a mainline IV and doesn't sterilize the patient's skin first.
 
I lost a relative to this bug. And it was found to be contracted in THE OPERATING ROOM.
 
IF YOU ARE HOSPITALIZED
 
Don't enter a hospital without a friend or loved one to watch EVERYTHING they are planning on doing to you. To do so alone can mean serious trouble or even death. For nurses, you are just another slab of meat that requires vital signs to be taken. All health care professionals are trained to erect this "protective wall" in order to survive the rigors of their work. The medical profession includes DOAs, auto accidents, decapitations, severed arms and legs, gunshot wounds, knife fight participants, people eaten up with cancer, serious diseases, amputations, disfigurement, burned bodies and more. And don't forget the ever present risk of infection health care professionals face from needle sticks and IV needles left laying on beds that jab them and cause panic, or even result in death from a fatal illness.
 
Because of all this, YOU must make sure that a relative or friend is there almost all the time to WATCH OUT for YOU. YOU will be laying helpless in that hospital bed. And I mean HELPLESS. When someone is there looking out for you, health care professionals are more conscientious. I learned this first-hand from playing the part of the watchdog many, many times for a family members who were hospitalized.
 
It makes a big difference when health care professionals know someone is watching.
 
NEVER be afraid as a patient or as a watchdog to question anything and everything.
 
Again, NEVER, EVER forget this fact: while you're laying there in that hospital bed YOU are at THEIR MERCY. Painters use a brush to cover up their mistakes. Doctors bury their mistakes and move on to the next patient. That's why their office is called a "practice."
 
A classic statement still applies: "A patient cured is a customer lost."
 
Have a health care proxy form SIGNED with someone you can trust your life to.
 
If you are unconscious in most US states without a proxy form, the hospital can do what your insurance company wants with your care. And with your dead body as well. This can mean withholding your life support for a coma condition if it's economically best for THEM, and not YOU. With the proxy form signed and on file, your wishes as previously conveyed to your proxy MUST be followed in the event you are unconscious or in a coma or the hospital or institution can be held legally liable.
 
Recently, a medical school student told me he just completed the dissection part of his course. I said "what happened to the body when you were done?" He said, "Heck, you don't think we gave it back to the relatives after we were done, do you? No, we have a crematory right there in the school." This can easily be the fate of patients that die without someone there to look our for them. Homeless and single people without relatives in town to speak for them, are among those damned to minimal care or even death today. It is true, that many people are worth more dead than alive.
 
We are living in a world where the value of human life is increasingly becoming less and less important. This is another aspect of ruthless social engineering. The more people that die, the happier the social engineers and the global elite will be. Every possibly means to shorten the human lifespan is being used right now. If you doubt this, read the UN documents.
 
Don't allow the medical profession to use you as a doormat. Stand up for your rights and they will take notice.
 
Ted Twietmeyer.
 
References
 
[1] - http://www.hipaa.org/ (For employers and health care providers)
[2] -http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/patient/patient.htm NYS Patients Bill of Rights
[3] - http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/en.asp?TopicID=314 MRSA defined
[4] - http://www.mercurypoisoningfyi.com/mercury_poisoning_thimerosal.html Thimerosol information

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