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Federal Disability Retirement: Doctors and the Peculiarities of Treatment
Efficacy of treatment is the goal for a doctor; and upon information that such efficacy has failed to render improvement or incremental signs of progress, many doctors lose interest, or become...
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Succinctly Put
In a technological age where one’s attention is diverted by multiple needs, wants and necessities, the old adage that “time is money” is merely a reflection of the commodity-based approach prevalent in...
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Medical Retirement (for US Federal Employees): Administering Treatment versus...
Doctors rarely have any problems with administering treatment based upon clinical encounters and subjective narratives from their patients; yet, when it comes to providing a medical report and...
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Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: Physicians
Physicians are peculiar animals. They are here to help; and from their perspective, success is measured in terms of how rarely a patient returns for further care. The ultimate sentence of failure is...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Treating Doctor
There is efficacy and motivational bias. Sometimes, unintended consequences result in the coalescence of both, but where the result is unaffected by the underlying reason for acting upon an event. In...
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The Physicians and the Substance of a Federal Disability Retirement Case
Ultimately, the essence of any claim, endeavor, vocation or activity possesses a characteristic “essence” of a matter — that which defines itself, reveals its core value, and manifests the substantive...
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Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Testing a Relationship
If the advent of a crisis is a true test of a relationship, then the satisfaction of an ongoing need in response to the crisis is the harbinger of sincerity. Testing the relationship is often the...
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Obviously, greater cooperation equals a smoother transition in every endeavor; it is the lack of cooperation which holds everything up. In a Federal Disability Retirement case, a supportive doctor is...
View ArticleFederal Disability Retirement Application: Making Innuendoes
OPM is always looking for a motive. It is like they are criminal prosecutors at the Justice Department, trying to always find some nefarious reasons as to why a Federal or Postal employee is filing a...
View ArticleFERS Medical Disability Retirement Law: Doctor’s Orders
Does strict compliance with doctor’s orders guarantee recovery and good health? Quite obviously — not. Medicine is not a science, although it is “science-based”. The history of medicine — including...
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