Mar 30 2010
Word of the day: Tympanometry .. acoustic reflex testing
Although I think medical doctors deserve getting paid and felt the health insurers have hacked too deeply into doctors’ pockets but I’m increasingly leaning toward the middlemen in bill disputing.
This time it’s the pediatrician.
新官上任三把火 Pat is the new billing girl or the receptionist at our pediatrician’s office [...]
Mar 25 2010
I don’t know what the doctor and the lab did/claimed, but they got their bills paid by my health insurer last November. I don’t have their bills any more (should have kept it!!) but I was pretty sure they billed me for this in 2010 too. In talking with my insurer, I learnt [...]
Mar 08 2010
Any good and capable dentists out there? Please raise your hands.
I’ve been satisfied with kids’ orthodontist who’s jolly, personable, and has upbeat office and accommodating; whom I’d occasionally run into during social functions because many neighbors use him too. Our pediatrician’s kids are his clients too: they’re in the same building.
But [...]
Feb 10 2010
Old Westbury at 12:30pm
Snowed a bit today .. ya right. From the air wave, one would imagine the end of the world or something close to that: everyone’s talking about the impending storm. What’s the big deal? It’s winter and suppose to snow. Correct?
My phone was ringing off the hock since 8:45am. [...]
Feb 05 2010
Deadbeat:
One who does not pay his/her debts.
One who does not pay child support
Craig Cunningham, a fighting deadbeat is thinking he has the right to sue the collection agencies who come after him because the agencies violated laws. In many cases, I do believe the agencies go over the line. In the recent economical [...]
Dec 03 2009
腦神經外科名醫許達夫目前已經幫一萬多位病患開過腦部手術，但是 他自己卻被醫師宣佈罹患癌症活不過三年，七年過去了，仍然非常的 健康，他還向氣功大師學了一套平甩功，他要分享抗癌結合中西醫的 自然療法
許達夫醫師抗癌的三段影片，健康的人也可從中學習。
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TVBs 李鳳山平甩功
Dec 01 2009
From a friend..
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洋蔥 的有趣 實驗 – 保健強身- 非看不可 — Onion
目前甲流在世界各地肆虐，美國已經宣佈進入緊急狀態，加拿大在全國免費注射疫苗，中國也有5萬多人感染了病毒。上周我有兩個午餐會不得不取消，本周也是難以確定好幾個午餐會是否要舉行，因為很多人生病（不一定是甲流）。這次的流感的確給人們的生活帶來很多麻煩和困擾。一個加拿大朋友把下面這封郵件發給我和一些朋友。我把它翻譯出來送給大家，希望對你有所幫助，希望大家健康平安不要生病。其中的一些東西與中醫和華人飲食有關聯。
In 1919. When the flu killed 40 million people, there was this doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had [...]
Nov 13 2009
I am a seventh generation Mississippian and wanted to come back here after going somewhere else for college and medical school. My extracurricular interests are golf, hunting, fishing and college football.
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Short, sweet and to the POINT .. This was a “letter to the editor” in August 29th Jackson, MS newspaper.
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Oct 15 2009
The bills from my annual check up have been piling for few months, plus my kids’, and I finally got to them: I called my health insurer.
The Aetna agent was very pleasant and helpful. She was reading [probably] my file and said they had reimbursed the doctor.
Then she read more.
The stuffs/tests that were done [...]
Oct 07 2009
Do I sound hicky if I don’t know what they’re? I can’t even pronounce them [correctly].
A bag of heroin can sell for $5 to $25 and induce a six- to eight-hour high;
Cocaine can cost $40 to $60 for a 30-minute high
Vicodin or OxyContin (prescription painkillers) sell for upward of $40 a pill on the [...]
Jul 26 2009
The killing of an abortion doctor George R. Tiller outraged me, to say the least.
Long before I set foot on America, I once heard this advice from an Aunt who lives in San Francisco to my cousin in Hong Kong who’s coming to US for schooling:
“Learn Spanish.”
I thought my ears were malfunctioning at that moment.
Please [...]
Jul 22 2009
Out of blue, I watched this DVD because the blurb claims ..
A Chinese-born 18-years old finds herself four months pregnant. She interrupts her studies to travel from Nebraska to San Francisco to determine what to do about her pregnancy. It is a revealing look at a young woman growing up under the new economic prosperity [...]
Jun 09 2009
How do the doctors fight back? I think they pad the bills.
These two bills below are my annual check up: the top one $105.25 was for the doctor and the bottom on $70.76 was from the laboratory. My insurance covers physical check up once a year. My insurance hasn’t changed but I guess the doctors [...]
Jun 05 2009
清风明月国际养生集团 .. hmmmm sounds grand. The street level salon at 133-10 41st Road in Flushing has just opened, about four months ago, occupying about 1,000 sq ft space. They’re offering special deal: $280 for 12x of one hour body massage or tui na 推拿, and $250 12x of foot rub or Foot Reflexology Massage. [...]
May 01 2009
Hong Kong to Quarantine 300 at Hotel for Week After Flu Confirmed, the WSJ reported.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s government said that approximately 300 guests and staff of a hotel in the territory would be quarantined for seven days after a guest was found to have the A/H1N1 flu virus.
This reminded me of an article, [...]
May 01 2009
This weekend looks gloomy. My right shoulder has been bothering me for 10 days that I couldn’t serve – been serving under hand lately. The allergy is getting to me to a point that my face began to sport all kinds of things. This is really new. I suffer allergy every spring and fall but [...]
Apr 07 2009
Last night I had dinner with two friends (darn forgot to take pictures – the dinner was lovely!), one a doctor and one a nurse. So, I learned the inhaling pipe that was administered to me is called spirometer, and that’s NOT necessary.
And the thing that measured my little bloody heart with few [...]