Dr. J's SOAP Notes

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Let me get this straight. We're going to pass a health care plan:

(1)Written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it
(2)passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it
(3)signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes
(4)with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes
(5)overseen by a surgeon general who is obese
(6)financed by a country that's nearly broke.

What possibly could go wrong?

On a brighter note.............to all my blogger buds in Des Moines.........you can come out of your house now.........the snow has stopped falling!!!

2 comments:

AnonymousWednesday, January 13, 2010 10:20:00 AM
so Doc, what is your proposal for the new health plan. Let the insurance company's and lobbyist make the rules?
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UnknownWednesday, January 13, 2010 2:59:00 PM
Anonymous,

Very good question you bring up. Unfortunately, we cannot allow the lobbyist to make rules as we know they are mostly in this for themselves. Notice I said most lobbyist. I had a neighbor who was lobbyist and her intentions were strictly for the people.

As for the insurance companies....we have seen where their interests lie over the years.

Before I started medicine, the AMA had no part in the CPT coding. Now, that we have CPT coding, we have lost all control to bill services. In other words, billing was fee for service. You come to the doctor and you pay cash.....just like one does when they go buy groceries. Most people shop around to find the best deals and buy from that particular store. The same went for doctors.

I am not sure this could work again, but it seems we need to put this back in the hands of consumers.

I would love to hear your comments. Thanks for writing.
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Who is Dr. J

Background:

She is originally from Spencer, Iowa. Malea is a graduate of Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. She attended medical school at the University of Osteopathic Medicine in Des Moines, Iowa. She graduated from her Family Practice Residency program at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa in 1998.
In her spare time, Malea trains clients on physical activity and nutrition, spends time with friends and her wonderful father, and loves to watch football. What is better than bodybuilding? “Wolverine football on Saturday and Vikings football on Sunday!” Malea also loves basketball as March Madness rounds out a wonderful basketball season. As you may have guessed, Malea is very sports oriented, having been a four-sport athlete in high school, and a three-sport athlete in college.

Why I do what I do:

Jensen approaches her medical practice with the same determination as anything else she does. “The effort to understand how to promote more active lifestyles has been of great importance to the health of this nation. Schools, workplaces, and families need to weave physical activity into the fabric of their daily lives. The key to lifetime fitness is consistency!”

What I Do Away From Work

Dr. Malea Jensen is the total package. She’s exceptionally bright. She’s remarkably attractive. She’s a doctor. She’s a bodybuilder. “I have been competing in bodybuilding since 1996,” Jensen explains. “Bodybuilding was never a whim”, Jensen says. “I have always admired men and women with muscle. Initially, it was not my ambition to get up on stage and pose, but this has been a way to extend my competitiveness. It is an ambition of mine to keep fit and look lean, with muscular detail.”

She credits her father for pushing her to “give 100 percent,” whether it was school, work, or one of the many sports at which she excelled.

Mission Trips

Why does Dr. J go on mission trips? You are probably thinking I go so I can do medical work. It’s funny, our culture has formed us from our earliest days to see our significance in terms of WHAT we do. It is old school thinking that mission work is all about giving and doing for the poor. This is true to a certain degree. Missionaries, when asked if they were successful during their mission trip, often speak of their success by what they have done, whether spiritually or materially. But really our significance as people comes not from what we do, but from WHO we are. So, to answer why I go on mission trips...it is for nothing less than for the sake of conversion...my own conversion! This conversion has to do with a change in the way that I view my own life - what I do, what I have, who I count as friends, what questions I ask myself, what issues I pay attention to, who and what I give my allegiance to. In essence, I have to leave my world where I have control and go someplace I have never been...to a place where I am poor and powerless. It is hard to do this at “home.”
Any time you enter a third world country, you will see the poor, but more importantly, you enter into the world of a deprived people and share not only their pain and struggle, but also their hope! To see this is so amazing!