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  • Google my name Marin Pitu, see video(s), be aware of Kaiser Permanente's atrocities and forward this message.

  • May you live long, and thrive.

  • In your sequel you say you have PMR. You should contact the Arthritis Foundation which has been very helpful for people who have PMR. PMR is the misdirection of the immune system with inflamation against most of the body and is quite disabling. Prednisone is the only thing that works in the long run. Throughout the nation, primary doctors take care of this common condition using the same doses of prednisone that you were given. Every person that has this feels your pain and frustration

  • Check what the dr's write on there comments in your record, I have found mine are made up, like they said they warned me about taking certain meds but they actually forced me to take the meds. I had 2 dr's throw tantrums cause I asked questions and thought the meds were dangerous for me. People need to get together and start flooding the congress persons with letters and emails about these ppl.

  • @MySiouxieQ Kaiser cannot change your rates arbitrarily. Only your employer has the ability to choose a new plan. Unless you're self-employed in which case you need to be more careful with what plan you choose.

  • Kaiser is a pretty darn good system. Look, you have serious illness. Prednasone is a powerfull steroid that they only give you if you have serious problems. You look pretty delerious from the drug. It is a lousy drug. Avoid it if you can.

  • @BlueStateChronicle kaiser sucks big time she is right. I was in great health before kaiser now my health is way worse.

  • Your a passive aggressive dumbass! You should have taken better care of yourself earlier in your life and you wouldn't be in this situation. You'll probably die soon anyway.

  • @n8kisbey no she is right kaiser sucks big time. your so mean and nasty and that kind of thinking actually makes kaiser less responsible for there bs.

  • I used to work for Kaiser, and I'm so glad they fired me. It's great not having to work for those assholes anymore.

  • (MySiouxieQ) Your rates are only based off of your age, gender and zip code. Your rates could have only raised if you entered a new age category or January 1st. You said they went up 3 times which cannot be true. You sound crazy in your comment which probably is true and why you did not understand your rates. The crazy lady that made this rant video is just a perfect example crazy people that dont like KP. They have too many mental problems and blame all of their problems on doctors.

  • Why would you criticize the entire KP system when it sounds like you just got a bad doctor. Physicians aren't perfect, you should have fired her and signed up with someone else. My mom has KP and if she doesn't like one of the docs, for whatever reason, she gets a new one. Empower yourself!

  • blah,blah,blah,whine ,whine,whine.You're old and have health problems just like everyone else.You sound like one of those geezers who thinks that you're smarter than everyone else because you're old.YOU'RE NOT!!!! Stop posting videos you senile old biddy. Why don't you go through med school if you're so damned smart?No one wants to hear you you're annoying!

  • My mom had a real bad red skin rash reaction over her whole body to prednisone. Plus, be careful if you are allergic to prednisone of the other "sone" medications out there that could also cause you reactions.

    Urgent care can be an option if your regular doctor is out of the office.

  • I used to courier medical supplies to kaiser,mostly through the loading dock,and the kaiser staff was always smoking pot back there.If I got sick,kaiser permanente would be the last place I would go to.

  • Tell it, girl. They are contemptuous swine. No one calls them on their shit.

  • I will be taking my mother and I off of Kyzer permanente. I recomend that you leave them and just use your medicare card Part A and B and D. BOYCOTT KYZER PERMANTE!

  • " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society "

    J . F

  • Kaiser charge me 6,000 on a kidney stone and only 4 hours of work. They scan me twice in 2 of there ct scan which alone cost 3,000. When I go in the hosp. I already told them that I had a kidney stone and they have to scan me with all these operation on me. You know what really help me is there pain killer medicine that only cost 110 and yet I already have some at home stupid me. They never fix my problem, the kidney stone just go away by its own. I also have there medical pre that I will cancel

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  • Well said.

    Wolfe

  • I worked for Kaiser and everything this woman is saying is common everyday with Kaiser. We are told not to put members through to their PCP. I broken the rules,called doctors on their private lines. I would have to get nasty with nurses and doctors just for them to call the patients back. The advice nurse!! what a joke they just started making clinical notes from those calls in the Georgia region in 2007

    Horrible!

  • thanks for the reinforcement

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  • People think you smoke cause predisone is rx for copd.I think you take predisone for your RA, I hope you feel better.Your elevated HR and SOB might be due to anxiety. Were you informed to monitor your blood glucose levels as you tapered off. Why are they tapering you off predisone and why was it prescribed. Once you rant enough medical staff may be less likely to help you. Getting older is difficult best of luck to you. Change your attitude toward your MD and see how it goes.

  • Michael Moore? It's amazing, people believe a person that looks like him when healthcare's involved. The problem, people need to take care of themselves; stop smoking, wt control, exercise, stop complaining and maybe all the people that think their depressed and ill can start living again and get off meds. If the rant lady is so short of breath, why can she keep talking and she looks like she can move just fine. If you don't like your healthcare try another, we have that freedom in America.

  • See Mike Moore's "Sicko" and it all makes sense. The nonsense written below about freedom and choice breathtakingly stupid.

    If you do not have the money you don't have the freedom to choose anything. Your health system is corrupted regardless of how many ignorant HMO paid hacks put forth their view.

    As for Angie707, where do you suggest someone goes? Blue Cross, Aetna, Cigna, Humana? That is not choice.

  • My question to you Margaret, is who are you going to complain to when healthcare becomes government subsidized and funded? Some people are never happy with anything and I think you might be one of those people. My suggestion to you is quit relying on everyone else to take care of you and begin taking care of yourself. You too can make a difference in your own health and well-being. You are getting short of breath and I am getting short-tempered listening to an ungrateful woman full of hot air.

  • You are awful person to say this...

    NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO USE KAISAR!!! Awful Dr's.. They DO NOT care at all. You are better off saving your money and go to a real doctor. I wont even go into what the did to my wife and I.

  • The best thing about this country... is its a free one.. you have the freedom to choose your health care... if you don't like Kaiser- go somewhere else. '

  • stop smoking cigarettes and maybe your health might get better

  • what makes you think I smoke. ? Never have

  • Thank you for speaking up. Your rant and formal complaint will hopefully help others who are less able to speak up for themselves.

  • I work for Member Services and I do have to say that in order to get the most out of Kaiser you have to know how to use it. I myself know the In and outs of how to obtain what I need when I need it. Member Services is the Member's advocate and usually we're able to light a match under whose ever behind needs a little "PUSH" so to speak. Im open for any questions. I have to be honest a lot of people don't do all they can do before they start complaining but there are those exceptions.

  • thanks

  • @unocrzyboy well member services is really bad also, I have made a hundred complaints and they don't even give you the time to call you to see what is going on. They give you pain cocktails that can kill you and if you ask questions I have seen dr's throw fits. so if y ou are member services how dare you come in here and tell some poor lady you have to know how to use them, NO they should give that info to there patients instead of all the games. dummy

  • Boo whoo!! go to United health care or BCBS and then tell how bad Kaiser is. I wish I had Kaiser again

  • Tapering off prednisone is important for your comfort. Your rant is justified and therapeutic. As a nurse for 20 years I solve problems. The important issue is the care you deserve and need. There is not a hospital that doesn't have a story like this or worse not just Kaiser. Request another Dr explain your needs. Write to Pt Relations tell them your concern about Dr Dylan. It goes in his file and he gets a warning contracts are not always renewed when there are many complaints You do have power

  • I'm in agreement with you. The one thing about Kaiser is that it has many caretakers and individuals have a negative experience they blame it on the entire organization. Everyone has a right to get another caregiver within. If one is non-Kaiser and received poor care, then they would seek out another caregiver. FOLKS, YOU DO HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE!

  • Kaiser Permanente is a multi-billion dollar organization that cares only for their bottom line. Should you fall on the wrong side of their balance sheet, you constitute nothing but a liability. Kaiser will stop at nothing to rid themselves of you. This unionized, self-focused, lying, entity is akin to organized crime in healthcare. What they've done to me and my family is criminal. I'll have their lying heads before I'm through. Let's see them claim their convenient amnesia in front of a jury.

  • Great idea. I'm currently working on a book about my experiences there. I was their Service Line Director for three years. I was making a six figure salary, but could no longer tolerate what I saw on a daily basis. Since reporting the violations, I was told to fabricate documentation for State Investigators, punish a co-worker for reporting other violations, told to keep quiet, instructed to destroy documents, and terminated for refusing under the pretense of "insubordination." Nowlosingmyhome.

  • Get PPO !

  • kaiser doesnt have any sense of urgency when comes to patients suffering.

  • fortunately that wasn't the case for me, at least as far as the nursing staff went. They were fantastic . .

  • I went to Kaiser all the time for different check-ups do to my birth defect and I almost died when I was three years old because a doctor decided that he was TOO BUSY to do a full examination and told my mom that I had the flu...That next Monday I was still sick and they found out that I had Hydrocephalus and eventually had a shunt placed in my head to drain the fluid off my brain...THEY COULD HAVE KILLED ME and that doctor is STILL PRACTICING at the same hospital.

  • not surprised.  It is shocking

  • I go into Kaiser for a check-up before a trip abroad. My "doctor" gave me a lecture (really no lie) about how a faucet works and drains into the sink. Until this day, I still don't get what his point was.

  • Sorry for your suffering. My friends mother went into emergency for one thing, they (KP) left her alone in a room where she died of another. I too have been a patient there with medications gone wrong. THANKS for letting me join your rant!

  • KAISER IS A CORPORATE GIANT.

    THEY ARE THE BIGGEST IN US.

    THEY ARE MAKING BILLIONS.

    NOT ONLY ARE THEY DUMPING PATIENTS THAT CAN'T PAY THEY HAVE THERE REHAB PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE OVERDOSED AND DENIED MEDICATION.

    Ask any one that works in other hospitals

    in southern California.

    It would be on the QT or they lose their jobs.

    My friend was one of their victims as a paying Kaiser patient paid by Boeing Company.

    He was an Engineer at Boeing so this happens to high paying customers too.

  • seems like a group action might be in order . . .

  • I've had good experiences with KP, and I've had them try to kill me. It's definitely a system where you have to be a strong advocate for your own care, and don't leave it up to them. I'm much happier (and healthier) not being in the KP system at this time.

    So sorry to hear that you're having such a problem with them. Much deserving of a rant.

  • Im sorry you are going through this M!

    My Aunt has had Kaiser for years (30) and she has had the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    She and now you, are why I will never go to Kaiser.

    All I can tell you is you're on the right track. It sucks to have to be on this track (attack) but sometimes it is the only way.

    Much love and strength to you!

    T/S

  • Oh Margaret, this doesn't surprise me at all. I don't blame you for ranting. In fact, I would have pitched a royal FIT! I am sure you have heard of the "dumbing down of America". Well, that includes DOCTORS too! Our entire health care system is out of control. To be kind, I will say it is CRAPPY. I am so glad you wrote a letter. I hope you write MANY letters. It is abuse! Scream like hell!!!! RANT ON!!!!!!

  • well, don't make me do this alone

    Since we now have this venue I don't understand why more people don't rant . . .

  • Oh Margaret, just wait. Luckily (knock on wood) I have no health issues at the moment. I haven't been to the doctor in years. I stay away on purpose. It reminds me of "Three Stooges" reruns. When the next time comes I MUST see a doctor, I will be vigilant. They hate me because I am the kind of person who bugs the crap out of them, demands my rights, and camps out on their office steps. They cure me just to get rid of me!!! LOL LOL

  • New channel: doctor rants? luckily I survived Kaiser, close call, I wouldn't go back. I have peeves with local 'doctors' (laughable title), After 2 yrs of hell I just found an angel.

  • I hope things get better soon, and you are feeling better! Definite rant material! Give 'em Hell!

  • Rant rant on girlfriend! i have been on that horrid drug myself and it alone makes you crazy let alone having to deal with these stupid doctors too. in the past two years i have had to change doctors three times to find someone who is really there. my health suffered because of it and no one gives a shit. it's seems the doctors think they are small gods of some sort and can treat us so badly. i say RANT. someone needs to hear this! thanks for this rant. we need more of them!

  • so come on, gang

    don't leave me alone out here . . . .

  • Thats Crazy.

  • Grrrr! I'm so glad to hear that you wrote that letter, possibly saving future patients from the same treatment! That doctor needs to climb down off her high horse and take a good hard look at her office communication system. If she never got the message, shame on her for hiring a poor staff. If she did get the messages, shame on her for incompetence or malpractice! You deserve so much better!!!

  • amj giveme peace

  • Amen.

  • they gave me prednisone for the dust on my lungs.

    take care margaret

  • What is this dust on your lungs? My dad's wife just got diagnosed with something similar, and I think she's going to start taking prednisone, or already has.

  • i'm allergic to dust and got a ton of it in my lungs while moving apartments. the pretnisone and a dusty inhailer did the trick for some reason.

  • You are doing the right thing!! DO NOT let up! I realize it is a hassle but the "barking dog gets the bone"..."the squeeky wheel gets the oil"...and keep doing the videos to let the world know how you are being treated. It is wonderful and may not only help yourself but could well help others in the future. I would love for videos like THIS to get featured and make the evening news! Hang in there and RANT all you want!

  • Margaret,

    I am so glad you have plans to meet with another doctor this week! Please take care of yourself. Thank you for letting us know what is going on.

    Ronnie

  • whew! I'm saved

  • What a bunch of bastards. Damn right it's rant material

  • I'm so glad you're getting to see a different specialist , I hope this one will be more competent

    Take care of yourself and let us know how it goes

  • That is highly disturbing that they were that negligent to their duty and your state. I hope things will move forward much better than it seems to have gone in the last month.

    This is definitely rant material, you are correct.

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