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OPM Disability Retirement: The Treating Doctor versus “Others”
Obtaining the support of one’s treating doctor is an essential element in preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS. The “treating doctor” is a...
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Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Supporting the Concept
In preparing, formulating and filing a FERS or CSRS Federal Disability Retirement application, the important first step in the “preparation” phase — or, one might even term it conceptually as the...
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CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Listening to the Doctor
It is amazing how unaware we often are of our very surroundings, even when the circumstances and scenario directly impact us. Doctors see dozens of patients per day, and the administrative aspects of...
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Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: The Unguided Doctor
In preparing, formulating and filing a Federal Disability Retirement application under FERS or CSRS, it is important to guide the doctor into properly preparing and formulating the medical narrative...
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OPM Disability Retirement: Professionals & Saving Time
In many areas of law, it is often the case that “professionals” prefer dealing with other professionals. Thus, doctors will often encourage their patients to obtain the services of a lawyer when it...
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OPM Disability Retirement: OWCP Doctors, and Others, Etc.
Can a doctor with whom one has been treating, but one which was obtained through the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, Department of Labor (FECA/DOL), Office of Workers’ Compensation Program (OWCP),...
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Federal Disability Retirement: The Supportive Physician
Perspectives vary; varying perspectives often lead to conflict; and conflict represents the divergent paths which pursue different directions, or follow a parallel route. Physicians who have been...
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Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: From the Doctor’s Perspective
In attempting to understand others, it is important to gain a perspective from which the third party views the world. Understanding the third party perspective is a way to formulating an effective way...
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Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Supportive Physician
Physicians comprise a peculiar and unique breed of people; highly trained, the best physicians must be more than a technician, however, in order to effectively treat their patients. The uniqueness of...
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Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: The Positive/Negative Approaches
The inverse of a thing can often be just as effective as the original matter; the ultimate endpoint may be the same, but stated in a different way. Thus, in preparing, formulating, and filing for...
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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...
View ArticleFERS Disability Retirement from OPM: The Uncooperative Doctor
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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