Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

It's true use is to use as a legal argument that you accepted restitution. Luckily, he wisely declined or his suit might have been dismissed on grounds that they'd made it right already.

"should we give him a $100 card?" "No no, that's to much, he didn't lose a limb or an organ, the $25 card should be just fine"

The worst part is a $25 gift card wouldn't even cover a lot of people's co-pays.

Yeah. They really gotta get on those punch cards. 10 surgeries and the next one is free.

So when my doctor's office screwed up and made my appointments run hours late, they have given me local gas station gift cards ($10) so weird, but I didn't say no.

I wouldn't be surprised if they charged him a cancelation fee.

They cancelled the exam after he had three seizures.

It is.

If he accepted it, he'd no longer have an argument with a strong foundation. He could still sue, but a lawyer could argue they already made it right.

Exactly the same logic as a 1$ inheritance, it shows that this was dealt with, so the law doesnt have to deal with it again.

They heard the term "better dead than red" and then realized that they were red inside.

A large portion of medical practicioners are absolutely fucking insane. It's no wonder people have a massive distrust of healthcare. How is it possible that medical research and medical practice have such vastly different kinds of people in them?

It's scary when you realize that a medical degree is just a degree like any other, and that a lot of those people went through college the same way as any other person, probably not paying attention 90% of the time, and cheating on most of their assignments... your likelihood of having a dysfunctional doctor is about the same as your likelihood of having a dysfunctional tech support specialist.

I disagree. Generally speaking, psychologists aren't competent either. Psychiatrists at least know about the human body, its interactions, and psychopathology in depth. Psychologists study the things you mentioned, but many fail to study the biological parts and how deep psychopathologies can go.

Therefore, I've encountered many psychologists who think that all problems are caused by the environment, by inner (often cognitive) processes, etc. They fail to understand severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and regularly make one of two mistakes (if not both in different contexts): downplay the severity of psychosis and mania/hypomania or think the mildest symptom is psychosis or mania/hypomania.

Also, many psychologists I've known and seen lean into the antipsychiatry movement. This may not be a problem when treating, say, mild to moderate depressions of a certain reactive nature. They might advise not to take medication and, indeed, medication may not be necessary for these cases. But to do the same for endogenous recurrent depressions and, again, severe mental disorders is borderline clinical negligence.

Finally and in the same vein, many psychologists do not understand how dependent on the physiological are phenomena such as behavior and beliefs. They often picture our mental experience as mostly free, perhaps influenced by many factors (e.g., psychoanalysis), yet ultimately driven by ourselves. I disagree. I disagree not only because there are many scientific observations to the contrary, but because my own experience has been ever-changing by the silliest of things, like medication for physical illnesses, food, weather conditions, etc. Anecdote incoming: >!Traits that psychologists would try to explain away, treat in talk therapy, and solidify as part of my personality were mere consequences of the physiological and went away immediately after I stopped the causes. The average psychiatrist would find this obvious, while psychologists were often surprised.!<

If I may add, both psychiatrists and psychologists face a profound ignorance about the things they study. Psychology has tried to explain them, and in this effort it has created dozens of different and incompatible schools of thought (e.g., psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitivism, etc.). Psychiatrists are also at a loss in the definitive hows, and I should add there's also dense theory behind it (it did not stop with Emil Kraeplin or Karl Jaspers). If you ask me, I wouldn't consider one more scientific than the other just because one created more paradigms/theories; if anything, remaining observant and pragmatic sounds to me more scientific (in both disciplines), but that's a whole new conversation...

I feel like googling his name would have sorted it all out.

Oh yep, you're right about the dementia angle. And even if they were Four Tops fan... you just joined in 2019! Who's gonna know??

That was probably the core of the problem right there... Medical professionals going "No way is this guy old enough to be in the Four Tops..." Without doing the due dilligence to realize they've been rotating members since 1997.

The fact that the original four members ran from 1953 to 1997 is fucking amazing! One of the original four is STILL in the group at 88.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Fakir

https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/reports/early-onset-dementia-alzheimers-disease-affecting-younger-american-adults

My post is literally addressing the "it can't happen to me" canard. People can and really do have mental health issues. It can literally happen to anyone. I understand he joined in 2019, I've been to his Facebook page. I appreciate you adding his birth year, because I was unable to find it.

I'm pointing out that angry responses to the idea that maybe you have a mental health issue speaks to how bad our current mental health services are, why they need change, and why we need to get rid of the stigma against mental illness.

Anyway, as you can see, Early Onset Dementia (along with so many other diseases, especially autoimmune) is on the rise in youth. Pretending it's not a possibility at all and getting angry at the possibility because you view people with mental health issues as "lesser" somehow is a problem, because it can happen to anyone. Pretending it won't and trying to strongman your way out of mental health issues literally does not work.

Also, as a black man, he historically has a reason to distrust American medical and pharmaceutical industries. I'm sure he's likely aware of such gross examples as the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments. However, choosing not to trust medical science entirely is also a losing game, so we have to fix that trust in people by building better systems.

Once again, this speaks to a system that needs to be fixed, not one that needs to have people antagonizing others over the idea that maybe they need mental health help. The system for mental health help in the USA is currently broken and hurts people and takes away their human agency. It can help a lot of people, but it hurts and fails a lot of others. There's a reason why people are scared of it.

I'm not saying anything is wrong with him, but I am saying his angry response to the idea that something might be speaks volumes about the issue.

They were trying to trick him into accepting an offer of compensation so they'd be able to point to it in court when they get sued.

You sound like you need a psychological exam. Please step into my padded office

Its also possible that they did look him up but he was acting so outrageous he was still hard to believe or they still felt that he was having a mental breakdown.

The guy can be a member of the four tops and also have mental problems at a given time.

Why are we assuming either way?

The only poster I saw refuse to take one of the positions, and instead talk about mental health and medical care in general, got down voted but all of these posts where people immediately and aggressively pick a side are all up votes.

Yeah it says that he "revealed himself as a celebrity" when he isn't one. Sounds like he was drug seeking. You see that a lott honestly. People trying to get drugs for bullshit reasons and then calling you racist if you don't give them to them. And now there's no further discussion of whatever medical emergency he had? lol The guy was ranting about being part of a 70-year-old doo-wop group and calling himself a celebrity and I don't blame anybody for thinking he was crazy.

How do you think the subject of him being part of a singing group even came into the discussion when he was there for chest pain? And what happened with his medical emergency?

I mean you can't say that without at least providing your own anecdote.

I know american hospitals suck but they do not restrain everyone who objects to anything.