Originally Posted by catra121

I hope you got a good IME doc...there really are some out there who are honest and care about patients getting the treatments they need. My first one was like that and if his practice wasn't in FL I would have loved to have him as my treating doctor. Knew it was RSD right off the bat and seemed legitimately angry at some of the things other doctors had said to me in the past.

My last IME doc was AWFUL though and I was so angry when I read his report. When I was there he was all, "There is something seriously wrong with you and you should be in a hospital." Then I get the report and it is filed with things like (mind you...I was in a wheelchair at the time and couldn't walk or stand at all), "Patient some how got up on the exam table when I was out of the room." My mother was with me and he saw me try to get off with her assistance and I actually fell and he had to catch me. He also wrote, "Watched her go out to the car. Could not see her get in because of the way her mother was positioned holding the chair, but mother did not lift her into car." Well...no...of course she didn't...she's not Xena Warrior Princess for goodness sake...she has her own medical issues. Nor did I ever say I needed to be lifted into the car. Getting into the car was a real pain back then and I sort of had to fall out of the wheelchair into the open door and then pull myself in...which he couldn't see and says he couldn't see. But see how they can twist their reports even when they don't SEE or HEAR anything to make them suspicious? They use loaded words in their reports to make it sound favorable for work comp.

BUT...keep in mind that they know this in the courts and often see right through the ridiculous IME reports. My benefits which had been cut off for no reason were reinstated even after that bad IME report...I was just so angry when I actually READ the thing that I wanted to...well...be violent. Do they realize they are messing with people's LIVES here?

But I am hoping against hope that you had a decent one and that the report comes back favorable for you.