Medical Rules....

If I went to a dress shop and they said I’m sorry you can’t actually buy this dress, you can only get a dress from this shop if you have a referral from an image consultant.  You have to pay for it then we send it to the Image consultant who can then advise you if it suits you or not and then they will give it to you if you pay them a fee. That’s the rules.

Sounds crazy doesn’t it – but this is what the medical industry does when you need an X-ray.

Five years ago I twisted my hip riding a horse.  I’ve never been right since.  I went to Chirpractors, Physio’s and acupuncturists even a medical intuitive (that’s a psychic) to see if I could get this fixed.  Not one of these people suggested I have an x-ray and not one of these people permanently fixed my problem.  After researching my problem recently on the internet I decided I needed to get an x-ray. 

I rang a radiology business to make a booking.

I was told I needed a referral.  I got that. $55

I got my X-ray done $80

I was told that I couldn’t have a copy of that X-ray that it went straight back to my chiropractor.   $55

My Chiropractor is the only person who can ask for a copy of this x-ray which I paid for and which I made the decision to get.  Just to make this clear, so far  I have paid a total of $190 with no physical result as yet.  Just an x-ray and an explanation from my Chiro which was different to the summary the radiologist gave which he considered incorrect.  The radiology industry considers us to be imbeciles who are incapable of understanding their explanations!)

Each time I have a medical problem I always look on the internet to see what is wrong (much to the disgust of all in the medical profession).  The information I have found on the internet has been 100% right in all cases so far and I will continue to use this avenue before I am forced to use the mainstream medics. 

The medical industry needs to get the pineapples out of their arses, learn how to treat their patients right before the whole of NZ gets smart and starts taking more medical holidays than they already are!!