Absolutely, I have been supremely disappointed and appalled by most of the doctors I saw, especially the specialists who work for the insurance company. There is something wrong with the system we have in place, or perhaps it is the money-driven, superficial culture that values what we do for a living rather than how we do it. When did the integrity, nobility and care for patients disappear from the physician job-description? I AM FURIOUS.

I get sick of the question do you think your problems a psychiatric. I didn't have all these problems a day before the injury and they started the day after the injury.

Like I always say, those insurance company doctors would dig up your great, great grandma and declare her fit for the Olympics. SCUM!!!

The "system" was designed deliberately to benefit the insurance companies. If it wasn't, a few simple fixes could be implemented to make the situation fairer.

For starters, in a socialized system, like Canada's, insurance companies should not be permitted to pay for "Independent" Medical Assessments. Patients should be examined/treated within the public system, eliminating the financial inducement for doctors to find against the patient.

Secondly, doctors should not be exempt from liability for any losses incurred by the patient as a consequence of their medical reports. As it stands now, Canadian doctors can write the most outrageous lies in an insurance company report, and the patient has no regress against them. If that isn't an incentive for abuse, I don't know what is.

Still, I have zero confidence that things will ever get better for victims. In fact, with the implementation of "caps," things are getting much, much worse. When my province "reformed" car insurance, they let the industry rewrite the laws. No kidding.

that's awful

The case in Canada is not true everywhere. In California, I requested a NeuroPsych Assessment. The state WC board sent me a list of NeuroPsych's. I chose the one I wanted. I did online research and he appeared to be objective.

Unfortunately, the prior IME's (a neurologist who specialized in Industrial Medicine) report was forwarded to him. It created quite a bias. This NP diagnosed my condition correctly but he wrote a report in opposition to what the testing indicated.

He blamed my condition on depression despite the tests showing I was not depressed. He said I was faking the results despite the validity scales showing 48 and 49 out of 50. 37 or lower indicates faking. I almost aced the validity tests. He said it was impossible for my memory skills to be so bad (bottom 12 %) with my intelligence scores so high (top 10%) This is in opposition to the research that says such a large difference in scores indicates an organic injury.

The insurer in this case was used to dealing with union members. I was not a union member so I did not get the fair shake the union members got.

The system has always been designed to protect the employer with the guise of giving the worker a no-fault protection. The killer provision is the limitation on attorney fees. This limits how much effort the attorney will put into difficult cases. I could not find an attorney to represent me. Representing myself cost me dearly.

But, I know many have received good treatment under WC. The challenge is those of us with head injuries. This is why we need legal representation.