Navy Medical Care

In the navy a doctor has some portion of his rating based on how many people he cures and how healthy the crews remain. With that being said, frequently it is not in the best interest of the doctor to do what is right for the Navy or for the individual he is checking up on. Beyond that, the sad fact is that the human body in naturally self healing for most things and frequently makes these doctors seem correct when they are not.

I would like to think that there is no portion of the navy that could possibly be more apathetic than the navy medical care doctors servicing the USS Dallas. I pissed blood on all but one sample throughout my naval career. At least 4 times that I know of and have navy medical paperwork from my medical record to document these. This is not normal anywhere. They continued to compare me to a marathon runner each time, (when my job required that I live like homer simpson.)

Beyond the pissing blood for no reason, I also have the paperwork to show that I told the doctor before my second med run that I was horridly depressed. I also marked the box about weight shift of greater than 10%. When he asked me about these I said it was pretty simple, when I went underway I did not want to be alive and tried to eat my way out of the depression. When he asked if I was alright I said, "I have never felt this horrible my entire life." The 30 lbs weight shift does kind of blend in since no real physical fitness standards were enforced (as they were not part of "the needs of the navy.") It is not the fact that this doctor or those around me ignored me that pisses me off.

Keep in mind that almost everything I saw was from only 1 submarine out of the entire fleet.

Today (April 12 2003) I was told that one of my friends of the USS Dallas has hodgkin's disease. They only recently found out about it. The same person who told me about this told me that he asked for help back in October and the doctors blew him off. This is a product of the typical inbred arrogance which is the navy rank structure. I wish him the best because I really liked him, and he seemed like one of the few that was going to make it through. I hope he is ok, but if he is not this is just another display of how the navy can ruin your life. A caring doctor may have overcharged my friend, but he probably would not have made him wait almost a half year before figuring out a problem that may take my friends life. GO NAVY

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