Medical Negligence Stories: Wart Removal from Hell, Part II

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 18th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

About two weeks ago, I posted the first in a series of medical negligence stories from my life. As I mentioned at the time, I have found that it’s extremely difficult to write about these experiences, because I still suffer from their impact on my body. So I decided to jump-start the process by sharing the letters I have written to doctors following such incidents. Here is the the follow-up letter I wrote ...
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Medical Negligence Stories: Wart Removal from Hell

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 8th, 2008 • 1 Comment

Since I started my blog, I have wanted to write about medical negligence stories from my life. I have found that it's extremely difficult to do, however, because I still suffer from their impact on my body. For this reason, each incident of medical negligence feels very emotionally charged. So I have decided to jump-start the process by sharing the letters I have written to doctors following such incidents. To protect the ...
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Stand up to Your Health Insurance Company

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

July 2nd, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Health insurance representatives are the foot soldiers of health insurance company CEOs, whose million-dollar mansions were built on the calcified, degenerated discs of your going-out-all-the-time back. While the phone reps may sound like friendly, caring agents looking out for your health, they are in fact bored losers who haven't been laid in like a million years and therefore will do their best to screw you. So stand up to your health ...
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Symptoms and Causes

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

June 9th, 2008 • Leave a Comment

A few years ago, my heater kept going off. I called a repairman to come and fix the problem. Little did I know, his idea of "fixing" the problem was removing the safety latch that automatically shuts off the heater when there is a buildup of emissions. It was perhaps a year later that I inexplicably got headaches, felt dizzy, and kept seeming to be on ...
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This Is a Physical Therapist?

By: Loolwa Khazzoom, Founder, Dancing with Pain

March 3rd, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Something I wrote one year ago: My hand gets all messed up. (Long story involving a cute guy who is way too into his politics. Don't ask.) I do battle in insurance hell -- upshot being that I'm assigned a physical therapist. Oh yeah, three weeks after I've requested it, but that's another vent for another time. Anyhoo, so I'm whistling with excitement that -- yay! -- I've cut the head off the faceless monster, and ...
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