FW: CAO/ODOC Love fest

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Dr. :

I agree with a free market, any-willing-provider approach, but that was not

my take on what you wrote.

You wrote, " It is not fair to those few MDs (orthos, physiatrists etc), DOs,

DPTs even some NPs etc who have some advanced training and DO know their way

around a soft tissue injury. Just because we have been treated poorly does

not mean we can go and stick it to someone else. "

It just came off like you were advocating a medical approach, because a few

of them may know their way around a soft tissue injury. I advocate what I

believe is best for my patients. I would not be a sponsor for pharmaceutical

companies, MD's, DO's, and NP's, because I am afraid they might feel left

out! As Dr. Sears rightly pointed out, " It gets strange when we fail to

speak for patients... " Anyway, I think we are on the same page on this one.

I just misunderstood you. You all can continue the love fest now...

Sincerely,

Glenn

Glenn F. Gumaer, B.S., D.C.

Chiropractic Physician

Northside Chiropractic Clinic

1240 N. Riverside Avenue

Medford, OR 97501-4619

541-770-1330 ofc

541-770-7090 fax

Re: CAO/ODOC Love fest

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> I am not familiar with your sense of humor, and because there is no

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> inflection in your writing, I am not sure if you were kidding. But

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> kidding me?.............. "

No Glenn, no joke. I am for a free and fair competition to whatever

extent is possible... I am for laws/rules that TRULY let patients

decide for themselves who they want to see, when they hurt themselves

at work and/or any in any other scenario that involves a

government-mandated third-party-payor (PIP, medicare etc etc).

If there is a possibility that we are going to push for an

any-willing-provider-law that would apply to state-mandated insurance

programs, it is contradictory and kinda " two-faced " to say that we

want to be exclusive gate-keepers of w/c.

The Texas Back Institute is a private entity and if that is their

model, then great. (But I will say that I had a patient go to them a

couple of years after she moved down there and she never saw a

chiropractor, she went straight to spine surgeon..anywho). I am all

for private healthcare entities setting up any and all forms of

internal reasonable and rational policies/procedures/triage-systems

that they feel are effective and competitive.

I just don't want it forced on folks.