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Vet Friendly Doctor Anxious To Help

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Jayg

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I have got the go ahead to release his info.

his name is Dr. William Kalichman. He maintains regular practice and can only take one or two people at a time for review and IMO.

You can email him at-... maule@owt.com

What I did was mail him copies of my smrs, civilian medical records, entire claim file, x-rays- everything I thought he could use to determine my case. Things he cited from every segment of that pile clearly demonstrated that he had thoroughly examined every facet of my case...

From here, all arrangements are between the applicant and him. I do not have any connection with any further proceedings and I do not make any profit from this. He helped me, a few vets from his practice and appalled at the injustice desires to help others. That's all I want out of it too. To help other vets.

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The doctor who wrote my IMO is definitely vet friendly and eager to help. I know him as a fellow moderator on another site we share. That's what prompted me to ask him if he'd he me. Here's a comment from a PM he just sent me... "I just won another case with a Korean War Vet. The bittersweet part is that he is very old and sick and may not live to reap the benefits, but his family will.

Let me know if you know anyone else that can use my services."

I can say, he'll need some help perfecting his delivery to VA- my IMO got bad marks when posted here but it won me my IU in any case. He is also well aware of the "At least as likely as not" rule. He read and cited my medical history, my service medical records, X-rays, and resourced and cited studies that did demonstrate the otherwise tenuous connection between arthritis with old injuries. He got opinions from others more expert at reading those X-rays than he is and cited their consultation. In other words, he didn't just lightly skim my stuff and just pencil whip an opinion, he was thorough.

His background or fields he can help in? - PTSD or Psych won't be one unfortunately. Some comments on his background from 'My Doc.':

"My specialty is internal medicine and aviation medicine. One of the hats I wear is that I do pilot physicals for the FAA. I am also a pilot. In addition, I am the Medical Director of the hyperbaric oxygen and wound treatment center at ---- Medical Center.

For what it's worth my college and medical school degrees are from Rutgers University in New Jersey. I did my residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale University in Connecticut. And then I was working at the Palo Alto medical clinic and on staff at Stanford University.

The resume goes on. My credentials would likely carry some weight with the VA. I should mention that when I did medical testimony, the lawyer that hired me only lost one case, and that one had nothing to do with the medical aspect of the situation.

Right now, I'm being trained in surgical and hyperbaric wound management. I'm being 'promoted' to Medical Director of the wound clinic of my local hospital, and they are shipping me out for additional training.

His earliest medical training...

1984-1990: Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic working for various ambulance squads in New Jersey, both for pay and volunteer.

1990-1994: Medical Resident, Yale University School of Medicine, Norwalk Hospital, and Norwalk, Connecticut.

1993-1994: Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut.

1994: Emergency Department Staff Physician, Yale University Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

So you can see he has the background and experience to be listened to by any VA raters who will acknowledge an outside IMO. But again, as I said, he'll need a little hand holding till we get him trained in perfecting the VA acceptable IMO.

I have his complete curia-vitae (sp?) but will with hold that until cleared by Hadit moderators. I also will withhold contact info on that same count also until directly cleared by the doc to do so. He asked if I knew anybody else that needed help. I don't know that he meant a forum full of us. :(

His fees? I don't know, you'll have to talk that over with him. He'll charge for his worth but I do not believe he will gouge anybody. (or I wouldn't be posting this here at all.) I have 'known' this fellow (at least as far as internet allows) for a few years. He seems a very decent, caring, and Christian gentleman for those as what that counts for. He will not just write up something for cases that don't merit them either, so don't look for that. But we can expect every benefit of doubt.

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Thanks for the post. I will get back to you soon.

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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Jayq,

That's a really good post, but I live a bit too far to utilize his services. Does he have any vet-friendly buddies here in Alabama?

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Jayq,

That's a really good post, but I live a bit too far to utilize his services. Does he have any vet-friendly buddies here in Alabama?

I live halfway across the continent from him. I just boxed up copies of all my records and sent them to him. A lot of folks use Dr. Bash who are no where near him either. That's why I figured posting my doc's interest would work the same way.

Yes?

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I am kind of waiting to hear from TBird on this. I promise your request will be answered.

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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Can you provide a link to this doctor, including his phone number and email address? It would seem like this would help Veterans who needed an IMO/IME. Gee, maybe we even need a "directory" of Veteran friendly docs where Veterans could choose which Veteran friendly doc they wanted based on location, docs specialty, cost, etc.

Maybe also WE should have our blacklists...docs who showed Veterans they were "Veteran UNfriendly". If the VA has theirs blacklists, then we need ours, too. We all know just how important it is what the doctor (C and P) writes in his report as to whether or not the Veteran gets his benefits. We also know that some docs tend to write "Veteran Friendly" things in these reports, while other docs tend to write "Veteran UNfriendly" things in the report.

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