September 25th is the big day!!!

I am very excited.  My only glitch now is that I have just 3 weeks to do my best in getting my blood glucose in control. 

Why would you want to switch physicians if you just had surgery in March?  I am just curious.

I hope you think long and hard before you change to this physician.  Tomorrow (Sept 3, 2008) I will be meeting with a panel of personnel at Theda Clark Hospital regarding my experience with him.  I will also be bringing all of the information I have from my team of surgeons that I subsequently had to go to for resolution (in other words to clean up his mess).  They have substantiated beyond a reasonable doubt  that surgical error was the beginning of my 3 year nightmare.  While surgeons are only human, and humans make errors, I can accept that.  It is the events following the fact that he certainly knew he made an error that angered me.  He was (and I am sure he still is) rude, arrogant, incompetent, untruthful, lacks skill and experience and the list goes on and on.  At this time, I am not planning to file a lawsuit against Kevin Wasco.  Although, three of four malpractice attorney's that reviewed my case were willing to take the case, I decided that would be too easy.  I have worked in the insurance industry for over 23 years and I know the case would get settled by the insurance company, and Kevin Wasco's malpractice insurance premiums would increase.  For the amount the premiums would increase Vs the amount of settlement I would potentially receive, it would take years for that insurance company to make up that settlement.  Meanwhile, Kevin Wasco goes right on earning an above average income, there would be notation at the Dept of Licensing and Regulation of the lawsuit, but most often these settlements come with some sort of gag order and no details are revealed .  I am not about that.  I do not need nor do I want any monetary settlement.  I want to keep this unskilled surgeon from ever hurting another person like he did me.  After my meeting tomorrow I will be filing my final complaint with the State Of Wis., Dept of Licensing.  I will also be forwarding a copy  with all of the supporting evidence to the Surgical Review Corp., American Medical Association, Wis Medical Association, SAGES, Hospital Review Committee, each member of the board of Trustees at Theda Clark (three of them have already been notified) and any other organization that he is either a member or has received accreditation from.  I did hire an attorney to assist me in some steps of the way, but I have not retained an attorney to file a lawsuit against him.  Both the persons that I am meeting with at Theda Clark and I have agreed there would be NO legal counsel at the meeting on 9/3/08.  I also intend to scan my complete complaint and all of the supporting documentation and evidence and e-mail it to anyone who wishes to read it.  I have nothing to hide.
I would like to post it on this web site, but I have an attorney checking on the legality of that.  If it cannot be posted I will simply put it in blog form and it will be available on my blog.  My attorney did not write my complaint, however, I hired a professional medical witness firm to assist me in the preparation, so that all of the medical facts are presented correctly.
This has been a long, drawn out process by Kevin Wasco.  My meeting at Theda Clark was supposed to be on July 30, but my Mother passed away on July 29, so I had to postpone it.  Ohio State University recently did an experimental study over 4 years.  While the trend has been for physicians to be trained in how to avoid lawsuits and to be always consciously aware of lawsuits, they trained a group of physicians to be aware, but the complaints and potential lawsuits were handled via means of an arbitration committee.  While the entire study goes into much greater detail (I can give you the web site name to read about it), the bottom line is that the percentage of lawsuits filed has dropped by 32%, and that 88% of the time, the patient or the patent's family merely wanted to hear the words "I'm sorry" from the physician and the physician to: 1) explain what, in his or her opinion what went wrong ; 2) explain to the patient what he or she could do to make it right, if anything, and 3)what he or she thinks the patient should do from that point.  Most often, however, just the fact that the physician was willing to look the patient in the eye and say "I'M SORRY" was all it took.  Steps one, two and three were not needed most of the time.  I can assure you that had Kevin Wasco (or the senior partner in his practice) ever sat down and listened and then said "I'm sorry" and "this is what I can do to make it right" it would have ended all problems, all feelings of hostility and mistrust, and probably saved all parties concerned a lot of time and money.  Kevin Wasco chose to hide behind an attorney, refused to answer any further questions and did not follow through on any of the things he said he was going to do.  He therefore had to falsify medical documents and had to stoop as low as any physician can possibly stoop - he had to try to make it look like I was unreasonable and crazy.  Unfortunately that was his choice, so he has left me no other alternative except to react to his actions.  Please wait until after tomorrow and I assure you that I can and will provide you with all details.
My Mother always taught all of her children to work hard, to be choosy, to never settle for anything less than the best, to be honest, to say "thank you", "I love you" and "great job" to someone each day, and most of all, always let your handshake or word mean more than anything that can be written on paper.  So to answer your question, why don't I like Kevin Wasco?  I'm not sure if it's a matter of liking him or not.  I guess either he wasn't raised with the same values (or he was raised with them, but has chosen not to use them) .  I think he is a detriment to the public if he can continue to practice medicine without additional training in skill, ethics and conduct.  Again, I will never sit back and allow anyone else to be hurt by this physician (and I use the word physician very loosely in this case).  If you have a physician now, I can assure you no matter who it is, he or she is better than Kevin Wasco.  Do your homework before you proceed!!!!        

That's actually a pretty good weight for height ratio. I'm that height too. It sounds like you're doing things right. Maybe your at your body's "happy" weight for now. I know that's not what you want to hear, I'm sorry.

I've just posted four new STALL busting recipes in the recipe forum...

That's right Four very low carb additions to my other recipes designed to make sure you've got the tastiest stuff you can have without any of the guilt.  We can't eat much so why not make it super tasty and high quality?

Burgundy Beef and Broccoli
"Talk of the Town" Chicken
Grilled Coconut Ginger Chicken
Creamy-Cheesy Wondersoup

And the ones I posted last week:

Rosemary Grilled Chicken with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce
Marjoram-Thyme Herbed Roast

Check them out and if you like them, kindly leave your comments in the recipe forum.  If you're in a hard stall, I've got plans to help, just PM me...but it takes some time for me to get to all of the emails.

See everyone later!

T.