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<blockquote data-quote="wily_old_vet" data-source="post: 96706" data-attributes="member: 2183"><p>I originally injured my back in 1988. The company docs diagnosed it as muscle strain and after a few days I was returned to full duty. I continued to have pain in the area but was able to work through it. After 4 months the pain knocked me on my ass and I called in and told them that the injury had reoccurred. For some reason the Div Mgr answered the phone at our center and with the benefit of all his years of medical school said that it wasn't possible. I went for a MRI later that week which determined that I had pieces of the lowest disk in your back pressed against the nerve. UPS then sent me to a neurosurgeon to determine if this did happen in the injury of 1988. He said it did much to their chagrin. I was finally operated on to remove those disk fragments. If I had attempted to have Teamsters insurance pay for any of this they would have declined and then it would have gone to Liberty Mutual. </p><p></p><p>There is the top half of each graduating medical class and there is a bottom half. I tend to believe the doctors staffing the clinics UPS sends us to are the bottom half of the class from a small foreign island medical school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wily_old_vet, post: 96706, member: 2183"] I originally injured my back in 1988. The company docs diagnosed it as muscle strain and after a few days I was returned to full duty. I continued to have pain in the area but was able to work through it. After 4 months the pain knocked me on my ass and I called in and told them that the injury had reoccurred. For some reason the Div Mgr answered the phone at our center and with the benefit of all his years of medical school said that it wasn't possible. I went for a MRI later that week which determined that I had pieces of the lowest disk in your back pressed against the nerve. UPS then sent me to a neurosurgeon to determine if this did happen in the injury of 1988. He said it did much to their chagrin. I was finally operated on to remove those disk fragments. If I had attempted to have Teamsters insurance pay for any of this they would have declined and then it would have gone to Liberty Mutual. There is the top half of each graduating medical class and there is a bottom half. I tend to believe the doctors staffing the clinics UPS sends us to are the bottom half of the class from a small foreign island medical school. [/QUOTE]
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