How to handle ATT C?

• alien09

  23 Jun 06, 22:20

  [b]Originally posted by oxford mushroom:
  
  No doctor will tell you the diagnosis of his patient...it's medical confidentiality.
  
  Just inform the MO of your conccerns, we have ways to detect malingerers....
  
  
  i'm really curious how you all do it...i've heard of ppl. getting 3 mths for a shoulder op and 6 mths for a knee op respectively at a pte. hospital where a person undergoing a similar op at a govt. hospital wld. prob. have gotten only half of that...
  
  (1) from what i know, the med. officer's hands are tied when dealing with mc-s of more than 28 days right? because it can only be approved or reduced by the medical board...correct?
  
  (2) so if there's medical confidentiality, how would the medical board know the true extent of the svcman's injury; assuming that his injury is indeed distinct and diff. from those of others...
  
  
• oxford mushroom

  24 Jun 06, 00:04

  Originally posted by alien09:

  i'm really curious how you all do it...i've heard of ppl. getting 3 mths for a shoulder op and 6 mths for a knee op respectively at a pte. hospital where a person undergoing a similar op at a govt. hospital wld. prob. have gotten only half of that...
  
  (1) from what i know, the med. officer's hands are tied when dealing with mc-s of more than 28 days right? because it can only be approved or reduced by the medical board...correct?
  
  (2) so if there's medical confidentiality, how would the medical board know the true extent of the svcman's injury; assuming that his injury is indeed distinct and diff. from those of others...
  

  More than 28 days...let the medical board decide..I don't think the Mo's hands are tied...his recommendation at medical board carries alot of weight.
  
  The medical board consists of doctors...no problem with confidentiality there..
• alien09

  24 Jun 06, 12:48

  Once got a superior dun allow one guy in my bunk to report sick at private clinic. Only Medical centre, hospitals and polyclinics.
  But the guy was sick and his parents are somebody. Parents very angry and the MP call and write letter and the last I heard the Regular still stuck on same rank.
  
  Good for the Regular. Want act garang. Cannot stand such people. Worse than malingering itself.
  
  wah...fierce sia...that chap probably had alot of arrows directed his way after his mc...