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Originally Posted by willgardner
ugh, so the assessment sponsored by the insurance company will likely have little value in directing my treatment plans.
Is the concussion clinic helpful?
At what point after your accident were you guys required by the car insurance company to do the assessment? does this even matter?
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Will, if you're litigating, you need to build your OWN medical dossier.
The insurance company clinicians will ALWAYS deny/downplay your issues. For every exam they order, you need a countering one.
Sadly, that usually means paying privately. The ones covered by your province's health plan will be conducted by doctors who almost certainly do private IMAs for the insurance industry - and will not bite the hand that feeds them. Easy money, coupled with laws that absolve doctors of liability for opinions- even those shown to be unsupported by evidence - have corrupted the system to the core.
Sometimes it can be helpful to get out ahead of them. I had my neuropsych done BEFORE they tried to send me to one of their quacks. I didn't use a clinician the other side could brand a victim's shrill. (Yes, they should choke on the irony.) I went to a prominent specialist with an unassailable reputation for objectivity. In the end, they didn't have the stones to challenge seriously her findings.