Posted on Mar 20, 2014
Have you negative or positive experiences with the Military Health System?
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How was it positive or negative and what was the factor that helped to make your experience a positive one or a negative one? Please do not post any Protected Health Information(PHI) here. For this discussion let's limit this to the DOD system only and not the VA system.
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I had an awesome experience I was a catagory 4 in dental, happened to be near a MTF at JBLM for a class, I am stationed 3 hrs away . I walked in it happened to be at the tail end of sick call. The dentest did xrays and found i needed some work , They sent me all over the base but I will say this 3 COL , 2 LTC and a MAJ did their damndest and got me into every available slot they could yes i went in on a MON I had two cavities, 2 fake teeth redone, (caps) and a root canal done in one weeks time and most of all I missed no time from the class.
I say BRAVO and gave them a huge kudos
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I have seen both good and bad. I think my biggest problem is how long it can take for something to get done. There are times when everyone knows that a knee or ankle or shoulder is not going to get better with Phys Ther but according to the standards of the navy you have to go through all that before they will do an MRI and "determine" that surgery needs to be done.
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the physical therapy is done preoperatively also to improve recovery after surgery even if it seems that it doesn't help improve the injury
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All Positive, From the time I walked into Bolling AFB Clinic unable to breath or speak. fixed me up in no time had me breathing and out the door. 36 moles removed at the Branch Clinic in London Had to play a word game, "I can't do "Cosmetic" Surger per se" "Aren't all moles possibly pre-cancerous Cdr" "Why yes they are we will do them in 3 sessions, lets begin" Had the best Cosmetic Surgeon in the Navy cutting my moles off. Usually had Senior Officers like O-6's as my Dentist. No complaints and all compliments. Even the Doc Tulip who operated a Clinic out of his barracks room (Patch up my Bike Oopses) and nerry an official word that it happened.
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