Sleep Apnea

[goose_716]

Has anyone tried to connect sleep apnea to being caused by working a rotating schedule.  I worked 2 days 2 swings 2 mid for about 13 years out of my 20.  Rest of my career was rotating schedule but it was not as xtreme. 

[jfrei]

On 1/8/2020 at 10:02 AM, brokensoldier244th said:

Why should you have to pay more for an opinion? It's their job.

Your paying for them to review all of your medical evidence and state their opinion and they have their license. Your a random  person in need of evidence it not their job to take hours to go over your records and give an educated doctors opinion... 10k is way to much I agree 

Edited January 9, 2020 by jfrei

[brokensoldier244th]

I disagree. If you don't have a relationship with them as a patient they shouldn't be writing things up for you. Those are the doctors that Better Call Saul hires for insurance hit jobs. If you have a relationship with your doctor, part of their job is rendering diagnosis and knowing your history. Spending a few hours with your records and listening to you complain about your issues in a letter or over the phone is not a patient doctor relationship. I think doctors should get paid, but they shouldn't hire themselves out on the side for people they have never treated. They are basically lying- they have never treated you, or even met you (royal 'you'). They are just reading your notes and writing up something- and since you are paying them a disgusting amount of money why wouldn't they write something favorable? Even if you lose your claim they still have the money. Its a racket. 

[Buck52]

Any time you pay A Dr for his/ her service  they become the Dr'Patient

As for a a Relationship   this is a relationship your telling the Dr what you need from him, its a short relationship but never the less its a relationship

After you let this privateDr know want from him and he understands what your needing and reads some of your military records   not all of them but the one  that pertains to your claim and you guys make a deal  or how much the Dr is going to charge you to write his / her professional medical opinion  If he examines you thenthis is a IME   I  should say this is why I use the private Dr (specialist)  because the VA Dr's will not do it   or most of them won't you get a VA Dr that will help then sure use him/her   but this whole thing is about getting a Dr to create a nexus FOR US TO WIN OUR CLAIMS.

its an IMO/IME

I really don't know why you don't Agree with this method.?

[Dustoff1970]

To begin with these private paid for Doctor IMOs are perfectly legal and acceptable by the Board of Veterans Appeals and Federal Courts including CAVC and Fed Appeals Circuit in D.C. as credible medical evidence for many decades.

From my own 35 years personal experience filing claims and appeals with VA/BVA many VA raters, adjudicators, DROs and C&P examiners are outright dishonest in evaluating our disability claims in that they outright lie on their written reports and decisions and I have given many examples of this in my other many post on this and other forums so therefore there is nothing unethical about vets paying for support and assistance from outside doctors and lawyers.  What is good for the goose blah blah blah.

I notice there are some vets that post this high moorlastic  crap on this and another forum over and over and over again and also ask the same questions and make same statements on both fourm over over and over again.

feeling lonely I guess

[GBArmy]

The system is broken. The VA hires medical people to do inadequate exams, that are incomplete,  way too short of time for the task involved, without complete medical files to review for the C&P, sometimes by people not qualified to make appropriate evaluations because of lack of expertise, and somehow, if we get an outside medical opinion to support the veteran's claim, that is wrong??? It's the VA's systems; you have to play by their rules. It is allowed. If you need extra help, it's allowed and you don't do it, you're stepping up to the plate with a strike already called before you get into the batter's box.

[Buck52]

Well its ok if some members want to disagree with getting outside Dr to help with our claims or to get their medical opinion,  After all we pay them good money for their professional opinion  and None of us are asking them to lie....a good example  I had a VA Dr that flat out lied his teeth off   (why) we don't know why? other than they love to take a veterans benefits away because of their POWER.

Well the VA has to take his word and usually the Veteran ends up with a denial and We have to Appeal  the whole enchilada goes out the window,,,,and basically the Veteran has to start over  with the exception of his EED, if he/she continues his appeal on a timeline.

Well we go see a Private Doc and talk to him and let him know what we need  let this other Dr read what this VA Dr IS SAYING ABOUT YOUR MEDICAL HISTORY AND YOUR HEALTH ect,,,ect,,,

..ok he reads your records or the petient record about what your claiming  and after he examines you and reads your pertaint records about what it is your claiming  then this Dr (prefer a specialist) Board Certified ,let this specialist give his medical opinion on you and he uses the VA Guidelines and Rules and goes by the CFR's  the whole bottle of wax...this takes time so it's not like these Dr or not earning their $$ and it is us Veterans that are going to pay these Dr  for their medical opinion and that helps us out  rather or not for a condition or whatever the case maybe   he can go up agianst this VA Dr and with a through explanation and with his medical expertise the VA usually will go with the specialist in most cases.

These private Dr's bassaicly do what the VA Dr's should have done in the first place.

Now some times we need to let these Dr's know some about our claims & ourself and how the VA likes things worded  like as least likely as not   ''is likely as not'' or ''related to '' ect,,,ect,, and how the VA treats us , and you can tell him that  as he reads some of your records that you take for him to read, these Dr are just as smart or smarter as the VA Dr's and if a Veteran needs a second opinion because of a VA Dr That don't put out enough information favorable to the Veteran  then this is why we need these Dr's for their expertise and opinion...it really makes these VA Dr's seem like Idiots.

Let these Dr's know  how the VA lIkes things worded  ie likely as not   is at least likely as not   or is 50%greater  its basically saying it is  more likely  than saying direct yes it is related to or yes it is  ect,,,,ect,,,,

This is good for the private Dr if they have ANY Legal concerns   if they use the VA Lingo.

Edited January 10, 2020 by Buck52