Illegal HMO Activity

My story wouldn't be complete without blogging about the activities of the HMO physicians I started off seeing, Dr. B. Varnardo and Dr. F. Remmington Sprague. Dr. Varnardo is the physician I first saw after I was released from the care of Dr. Marjorie Mooney, and the physician who said that just because Dr. Mooney believed I had Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, didn't mean that he had to believe it too. Ohhh nice guy, huh. Varnardo is also the medical director of an HMO, called Muskegon Cares specifically set up for low-income and/or unemployed people like myself. Anyways, I felt his conduct was very uncaring and unprofessional so I didn't see Varnardo very long. Next, I saw a physician named F. Remmington Sprague and even though he has a fancy name and basically a good reputation from some which has been highly publicized because he also has served as chairman of the board for the Muskegon Cares HMO, I have some interesting information about him as well. Although I saw him for about 4 or 5 months, I immediately quit seeing him after I found out his relationship to the insurance company that was covering my care. Not only did he tell me that I wouldn't be getting any help for my lymphoma if he had anything to say about it, Dr. Sprague continued to interfere with my care even after I left his care and began seeing a physician named Robert Strauss, an internal medicine specialist. Through other physicians, I found out the Dr. Sprague had several physicians send them information from my medical file after I had stopped seeing him, and continued to try and control my care even though he wasn't my doctor anymore. One perfect example of this was when I went to have a laparoscopy performed by a Dr. Lourice David for a diagnosis of endometriosis. Before the procedure I pointed out to her that my blood type in Hackley records from 1996 was incorrect because it stated I was B+, when in fact I had been B- my entire life and could even verify this fact. Somehow Hackley falsely reported after my laparoscopy that I had seen a woman prior to my surgery who had typed my blood and reported it was B+. Oh, what a surprise (sarcasm of course) since I had premonitions of this as well. I also asked her (Dr. David) if she could take some tissue off my so-called fibroid tumor to make sure that it was not cancerous since I have only ever had this one fibroid and was beginning to experience abdominal pain from it. Dr. David told me she could not. The records I could get my hands on after the laparoscopy also showed that Dr. David falsely stated that Dr. Sprague was my primary care physician whom she was sending my information to, even though the fact was that he was not and had not been my primary care physician for at least 6 months prior to the laparoscopic procedure. All I have to say is that it is a blessing that you can order your own blood testing kit to find out the truth about what your blood type actually is. And I would love for anyone to call me a liar and try to sue me since I at least have this proof, which was not given to me by Hackley but can be performed again upon a judges order. Furthermore, the physicians could kill me by giving me the wrong blood, so this is just not about whose right or wrong. These guys have gone to great lengths to conceal the truth, and believe me...it probably won't stop here.

In 2007 it was reported that a man who had Muskegon Cares had been given 10 colonoscopy bags per month after his surgery, and was embarrassed about the smell from this when going to work. My only comment about this is that it just goes to show that the HMO's crap didn't stop with us, and it probably won't ever stop unless more attention is given to people who are not only under-treated but mistreated as well.