Brent McGillis: The WCB Millard and my WCB Alberta Claims Manager Kim Kroetsch use threats and co-ercion to deny me treatment @ the WCB Millard Health Center

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The WCB Millard and my WCB Alberta Claims Manager Kim Kroetsch use threats and co-ercion to deny me treatment @ the WCB Millard Health Center

This is what they did to me. First of all, once you enter the WCB Millard Health Center they make you sign documents, then you get to meet one of their KOOK doctors. In my case it was Dr. Renchko, he mocked my broken back by telling me that "Lots" of people have steel parts in their bodies. I retorted, "Not in their Spines!"
Then the next day it was off to see the education people who on the surface seemed nice enough, until their education counselor met with me and gave me a "Job Add" for a forklift operator. What a joke, I told her I already had a job, it was called being a Pre-Engineered Ironworker.
Then it was off to meet their FCE (Functional Capacity Evaluation)Evaluator, she also seemed nice enough but completely ignored me when I showed her I could not stand straight up when I had a package in my hand crouching down. I demonstrated to her that the "ONLY" manner in which I could stand up holding weight in my hands was to rotate and turn my right knee to the right. I clearly demonstrated this to her. I had also told her about my neck problems that I had been experiencing since the day I was "evicted" from the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton.

Dr. HongXing Jiang had repeatedly refused to look at either my neck or my knee. He told me that he was only being paid to fix my back!

Just imagine, you too can be treated like shit @ the Royal Alex Orthopedic Surgery Center.
This is what privatized medicine in Alberta looks and feels like.
This is what happens when WCB AB dictates all Alberta Health Services surgical protocols in the province of Alberta.

I had asked the WCB Millard woman doing my FCE if she was writing down my physical problems. She stated, "There is nothing on here about those injuries".

It is interesting to note that immediately after the WCB Millard bogus Health Center woman completed my FCE, she led me into a room with no windows. But the room did have microphones and cameras mounted in the room.
She told me that I had to sign legally binding documents that stated that I was only there to have my broken spine treated and that I would be forbidden from claiming any other injuries.
This is the kind of fraudulent behavior that goes on @ WCB Millard Health.
It told her, "Why don't you sign them?"
She returned after sometime conferring with her crooked legal pals and co-conspirators and told me that I did not have to sign the documents.
"No Shit Sherlock", I told her.

The WCB AB Millard Health Center did with full knowledge and with willful malicious intent, use threats and co-coercion to force me to sign legally binding documents.

The WCB Millard Health did deliberately use threats, coercion and intimidation in their process of cutting me off of benefits. The WCB Millard Health routinely use these fraudulent techniques to intimidate seriously injured workers, who are under extreme physical and mental duress as a result of their injuries. The WCB Millard Health repeatedly uses threats and intimidation to force seriously injured workers into signing legally binding documents.

Note: I was not aware at the time of my abuse @ WCB Millard Health Center, that Dr. Leslie DeLima was making decisions regarding my care while I was heavily sedated with Morphine, and was determining precisely what injuries the Alberta WCB would allow the Royal Alexandra Hospital to treat.
I did not find out until later that Dr. Leslie DeLima is a WCB Alberta Doctor, working in the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

So in reality, you are screwed from the day you get injured in Alberta.

If you are an American who is injured while working in the Oil Sands, have yourself flown to a Hospital in the United States immediately, for proper treatment!

Do not wait for the Alberta WCB to instruct the Alberta Health Services to fly you to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, where Alberta Health SCARE Services is working in 100% co-operation with the Alberta WCB Kook Doctors who are working diligently to commit heinous Health Care Fraud on YOU. You do not have enough money to fight these felonious bastards once they have committed these medical Health fraud schemes against you.

Do you want to know why Alberta Health Scare is so Fubar in Alberta? Because they are too busy trying to defraud seriously ill and injured workers, that is the WHY.

This is why they created the SUPER BOARD to spread the WCB Alberta CONTROL of Alberta Health Services across the entire health care spectrum in Alberta.

I believe that Alberta Progressive Conservative fascists are super corrupt and have designed this "Health-Scare" system to insure that hard working Albertans do "NOT" receive proper medical treatment for their injuries when they are hurt at work.

Because the Alberta WCB refuses to help me, I am consigned to injections to kill the nerves in my neck with Botox & cortisone shots for the rest of my life.

These crooked Alberta WCB bastards decided that I did not need my neck treated. I would never knowingly sign my rights over to the Alberta WCB crooks. Like WTF, who the hell wants to live in the shithole province of Alberta, when they gleefully treat our own citizens this way?
Is Dr Hong-Xing Jiang a Hack WCB kickback Surgeon? We will never know because Dr. Hong-Xing Jiang refuses to ever see me or write a legitimate diagnosis or long term diagnosis on my condition? I waited for a year after my doctor referred me to Dr. Jiang and he wrote 4 words in his assessment. Surgery will not help, was his assessment. Is this guy for real, Citizens of Alberta are expected to respect this man as a Surgical Spinal Specialist? C'mon who the hell are the PC's trying to fool? Is he one of the WCB Alberta hired Hack Surgeons? Does he owe the province of Alberta for bringing him here so he is forced to perform their WCB Alberta hack surgeries? Are the WCB AB & AHS threatening to send Dr. Jiang back home to China if he speaks out about these WCB Alberta Abuses? These are valid questions, that need legitimate answers. The evidence implies that a reasonable person with completely reasonable control of their faculties could only conclude that; not only did Dr. Jiang knew about the deliberate Health Care fraud being perpetrated by the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta, but because he refuses to come clean on what happened when I was admitted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, that he was likely complicit.

Don't worry though there is NO danger of this reaching a court of law, because the WCB AB system is set-up so that you will spend YEARS upon YEARS being screwed by the WCB Appeals Commission and you are likely to die before you ever get a chance for timely legal tort remedy in Hellberta.

The question remains about the Royal Alexandra Hospitals role & involvement.

Save yourself lots of pain and suffering and "DO NOT GO TO the Royal Alex Hospital", for orthopedic surgery.
I was born in the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
I am living proof of what Shitty Fraud the Royal Alexandra Hospital will commit against you, as an injured worker.
You will be lying in bed dying in pain with a broken back, while the Hospital and the WCB Alberta conspires to screw you for "LIFE". This is how the Royal Alexandra Hospital's Orthopedic Surgery unit works, so
BEWARE! You have been forewarned.

Warning: U.S. Citizens do NOT allow them to take you the Royal Alex Hospital for treatment of your injuries. all citizens living and working in Alberta have the legal right to go to the hospital of their choosing. All rich Right Wing White Conservatives know this, and will never be caught alive or dead with the walls of the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

The heinous and malicious treatment I received at the Royal Alex Hospital Orthopedic Center raises some interesting legal questions: A. What kind of privacy laws are being violated each and every day
@ RAH?

I never signed any papers allowing the WCB of Alberta to make medical decisions on my behalf. If the Royal Alexandra Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Center tricked me into this type of signing under sedation, then they did so with malicious intent to a severely injured human who was under severe physical and mental duress.

There are a ton of truly disturbing legal questions that arise from my treatment by the Royal Alexandra Hospitals Orthopedic Clinic, and how they have abused me medically by refusing to ever see me again as a patient. And of how they[RAH] and the WCB ab are working in collusion to block ANY subsequent referrals to other legitimate orthopedic surgeons in the province of Alberta.

There are some severe PRIVACY issues arising from my abuse by the Royal Alexandra Hospital's Orthopedic Clinic.

If you go to this[RAH] hospital for orthopedic surgery and it all goes sideways, then you deserve what you get.

I was always suspicious of the first time I met him after surgery and every subsequent meeting with orthopedic "DR. PAIN!" He kept repeating, "Ahh, yu tu yung to retire!" It seemed like an awfully strange thing for an orthopedic doctor to say. Why would he say such a thing, knowing full well that the success rate of Spinal Fusion of the Lumbar is only about 40%. That is in terms of the victims of this surgery that will make a full recovery and return to work. Even those numbers are not accurate, since the Workers Compensation Boards of North America do not divulge their true statistics & data.

This is precisely why there is never going to be any possibility that you will receive either a fair hearing or fair treatment by the elaborate Government Sponsored Bogus Workers Compensation Scheme! EVER! This is Hellberta, and the corrupt political party in power known as the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta will never, ever allow any person to investigate this horribly corrupt bogus Workers Comp scheme. Why? Because Alison Redford who was the Justice Minister, is now the Premier. So in typical corrupt Conservative Party practices, she has decided to suspend the legislature. What a cruel trick on Democracy. She received evidence of corruption at the Appeals Commission on her desk. She returned a signed letter stating "There was no evidence!". I seen this evidence with my own eyes, and since she in her high office of power decided to "Look the other Way", that in my mind means that she is Corrupt. Right to the very core. This is standard operating procedure[SOP} for the string of do-nothing Justice Ministers who have occupied her Justice Minister office. If she was not, then they would never have allowed her to take over as the Premier. The only reason that she was made leader of her party is because they (http://www.albertapc.ab.ca.) think that another broad will surely win the next election against the opposition parties.
And that is why you will never win against the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta.
I always thought that my case would culminate in a courtroom, and be able to tell my story to a Judge.
But, that will never happen, because the super crooked and corrupt Guy Kerr with full knowledge and control of the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta is too much of a crooked bastard to loosen the screws on seriously injured workers, even on little bit. He hides like a bug.
The super corrupt Conservative Party of Alberta will never help the little guy. Never happen!
So, let us review.
1. You are stupid enough to be taken to any of the Hospitals in Edmonton that are run by the large American Private Hospital Management Groups, and you are screwed from the day you enter their front door. Because they are working in full parity with the Workers Compensation Board and allowing Worker Compensation Doctors to make decisions regarding your own personal Medical decisions while you are in their Hospitals
2. You are sent home with "ZERO" support.
3. Your corrupt Surgeon who takes kickbacks for "NOT TREATING YOU", is on the payroll for the Workers Compensation Board.
4. Your Surgeon working in conjunction with Alberta Health Services, and the WCB AB will never allow you to see him or any other "Orthopedic Surgeons" ever again, in the province of Alberta.Never!
5. After 6 weeks of physiotherapy the Workers Compensation Board sends you to their super corrupt Millard Health Center, where they will complete their Medical Fraud against you.
6. After the Workers Compensation Board in concert with the Millard Health Center are done threatening seriously injured workers with termination of benefits, they will use any number of other fraud tools to ensure that they[WCB AB] exercise the maximum amount of coercion and intimidation against the claimant to FORCE claimants under duress, to sign Legally binding Documents.
7. Finally, you will be cut off of Workers Compensation Benefits and all medications and medical treatment forever in the super shitty province of Alberta.

It is the Alberta Conservative WAY! "THREATEN SERIOUSLY DISABLED WORKERS!"
WOW, what kind of sycophant would employ such tactics? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Guy Kerr, who else?
It is interesting to note that all these sociopathic employees of the Workers Compensation Board, all hide like bugs. Have you ever noticed this? It's true, they are so petrified that if they hang out on any social networks that really pissed off injured workers will track them down. They run and scurry from the light[Justice] like Cockroaches, have you ever noticed this?
They[WCB} all hide inside their "ROACH" motel, in downtown Edmonton, sucking the life out of hard working Albertans.
And this is why you will never be treated fairly by the WCB ab, it is impossible since the super corrupt PC Government has so entrenched corruption into our HealthScare system in Alberta that you will never win. Not in a million years.
It is a crying shame that this is what our Democracy has come to. We here in Alberta are living in a fascist run "Demockery", sad, truly sad.

I live for the day when a pissed off Alberta WCB claimant gets a hold of the sociopaths employee list. Releasing it on WikiLeaks would be priceless. Man will I laugh on that day! Can you imagine the panic that would permeate the Cockroach Motel in downtown Edmonton? Now that is what I would call Irony.

Wanton abuse of their information seems like an appropriate amount of Justice.

16 comments:

  1. Ive recently been experiencing Millard "Health". Im glad that some one else is having the experience. I though I might be imagining the underlying hostility at this place but they really dont care if you get better. They just want you off their pay-roll. I suffered brain damage following an accident, and they now make me lift weights every day, even though it makes me vomit, faint, and unable to walk. When I complained about not having my actual injury treated, they told me I was depressed and needed to get anti-depressants immediately, and even referred me to a Doctor for such. When I refused them (after my wife and I both told them im not depressed, just frustrated no one is helping me) I was threatened that my benefits would be taken away. When I vomitted on their exercise machine, I was asked if I had an abusive childhood by one of their "doctors". What a ridiculous place. The worst part is, no one can help me with these people!

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  2. I just wanted to let you both know that you CAN hire a lawyer - it is against the law to threaten or coerce patients! A friend has a lawyer - working pro bono and the lawyer got ahold of the "insurance" and told them NOT to contact my friend again and they are being sued! have you tried this route? Not many people know that this is illegal!

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  3. Someone I know has just been cut off Alberta WCB, for WCB fabricated reasons, and just to twist the knife a little more, with no notice. Wanted to work and was told not to. Alberta WCB tactics are third world. No, sorry, not even up to third world standards. Everything I've read so far seems standard treatment from Alberta WCB. If I hear of anyone who is entertaining the idea of working in Alberta, I'll tell them what I've been hearing. The word needs to get out about this. I'd love to see a program like "The Fifth Estate" try to tackle it. The moral and ethical compass is broken at Alberta WCB.

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  4. www.countrycampcook.blogspot.comMay 2, 2012 at 1:43 PM

    strangely enough I just got a call from Alberta WCB this am -announcing that they had reopened my file - I had not called them YET - after denying claim in January resulting from 2001 broken bone -they said I must have had another significant injury - they just got a letter from the Ortho surgeon who says there was no additional injury - so now they are sending forms to sign so they can pull all medical records - this was suggested to them by the surgeon - we shall see where this goes now.....

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  5. I was injured near the end of may. I shattered my left radial head because the foreman of all people made an error moving scaffolding. I am only 24 and I've had one surgery with screws and plates and now I'm have to wear 4 different kind of splints to regain mobility for minimum 3-6 months. On top of that there are a few places where Im missing chips of bone. I am getting treated well so far but I am worried for the future. My job Is all heavy lifting and repetitive motion. What I'm getting at is if I don't get retrained and wcb writes me off I'll be working in pain and putting excessive stress on my joint. And what sucks is I have a few hobbies and sports that I won't be able to do anymore. I could just be whining for nothing but I have nothing but time to think and I'm very stressed out. Anyone have any experience with this? On a different note a friend who is in the same trade has back problems and can't stand for too long had to go to the zoo in a wheelchair with his kids is getting screwed around. Wcb missed a payment on him and he called and they said there's nothing they can do cause there records said he got paid. So got mad, he said after that they denied him entry into the chronic pain program and are making him find a job for one month until his next class starts (he's being retrained). Sounds like lots of people are getting screwed. Well that's my story hopefully everything goes well. Goodluck guys!

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  7. I have never has a WCB claim before,so this was all new to me.I had hernia surgery and the surgeon said in his report "no return to work for six weeks".It was a doctor picked by the WCB.They told me I had to return to work in three weeks.Who is right here,and what can I do.

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  8. You can actually SUE the Doctor for assault if this occurred less than one year ago. See a Lawyer.

    For six years now I have been trying to get the Board to give my Friend Medical treatment. All the WCB wants is to get the injured worker back to work. The CM's bonuses are based on the number of Loss Time Days. Less days means a higher bonus.

    They are all corrupt. Hopefully the NDP will look at this. No other government party will.

    Even when the building was threatened by a frustrated injured worker here in Edmonton, nothing was done.

    The (also corrupt) EPS simply would not investigate and the WCB employees who attempted to file claims for PTSD, etc. those employees were fired. Can yo say IRONIC?

    Advice: DO NOT go to the Office Of Appeal advisers. (OOA) They work for WCB.
    The only impartial party is the AC (Appeals Commission)

    Get file updates every month. There are Doctors reviewing your claim and making Medical decisions without meeting you. The WCB relies heavily on these reports.

    Do not allow Dr. Ronald England, Dr. James F McMillan, Dr. Randy Gregg, Dr. Ian Lo, Dr. Martin Boulaine to do an IME on you. They work for WCB.

    If you get Dr. Wayne Peisky, Dr. Shannon they aren't as bad.

    Always remember... if the form letter you receive doesn't say Decision anywhere, its meaningless.

    Medical trumps Vocational every time.

    Cheers, and GOOD luck to all

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  9. That Millard Centre is nothing more than a joke,,,the case workers, doctors and other staff ""ALL"" sat and watched me have multiple strokes while in their BULLSHIT head injury program, then these douchebags go and put in my final report that I'm ready to return to work just as long as its nothing "saftey sensitive",,,,, well news flash for them morons,,,,theres no such work and a Neurologist will Trump these bogus reports everytime! Personally I'm still on WCB's temp total benefits after over a year,, these people at WCB are still to this day trying to Kill me but they will NOT succeed and in the end myself and my god sent legal team are going to see this thru untill criminal charges are laid against these crooked inhumane peices of shit! Contact me Brent, we could both use and ear!

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    1. I most certainly agree!
      We are all Just a number (case file Number) to push through the system to meet their quota.

      klynnevans26@gmail.com

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    2. Hello. I am curious I recieved a call from WCB after my doctor gave me another 2 weeks off due to an immobilizing back injury and they are now saying they want me to see their back specialist. Do I have a right to refuse? They made it seem like I dont. And I would really prefer to stay with my family doctor and regular physiotherapy routine.

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  10. Millard Health staffs are inhumane &inconsiderate. I really regret getting sent there. They will tell you "you have the right to say no" but they are very very pushy, forceful on task even if you are in too much pain. I wish they would be in patients position so they understand to be in a patients position.

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  11. Kerri - June 13, 2017
    The staff at Millard Health are in lack of professionalism and have no understanding of each persons (number) being different from the next. They all assume that everyone should heal the same and at the same pace, no matter of differences of injuries.
    I suffered a broken L5 vertebrae, broken sacrum and 2 broken pelvic bones as a result of being squished between 2 vehicles.
    Those inconsiderate "people" pushed me through their "physio program" then through their "job development" (where my personal work history and personal medical situation was disclosed to a security guard working for the Millard Center). I was humiliated when the job developer introduced the guard to me during a meeting (he was in plain clothes). I did try to speak with the supervisor on the matter, and he claimed that no breach of FOIP was done. (but regulations and policies are now going to be changed). The staff did try on several occasions to get me to go back in the Millard Center, after i had said that i would never return due to being humiliated.
    After several failed attempts, they forced me through the job search saying i could be a "call center agent" (even though i can not sit, stand or walk for prolonged periods of time) I had advised them of updated x-ray information from my family doctor and the back/spine specialist and my case manager and job developer just disregarded the updates and said " you can sit and stand as a call center agent, you need to find a job!"
    None of them have knowledge of what they are doing either. As they sent me a "job posting" by email, that did exceed my permanent job limitations. I sent the email back, explaining the situation and they disregarded the matter.
    Now, They have since cut me off, dispite having a medical letter from my back/spine specialist saying that i am currently unable to work due to complications from the injuries and also adverse side affects from pain medications.
    The threats (cutting you off) from all staff, start the moment you are on WCB. If you do not comply - you funding will stop immediately.
    You feel as if you are just another number that they have to push through the system to meet their quota for the month. Because that how they treat you.
    There medical staff is another joke of their system....
    my family doctor requested an MRI and the doctor i saw through them said "it's a waist of time, i see no reason for an MRI to be done on you"
    However, with the MRI getting done through my doctor - we have found out my L4, L5 and S1 vertebrae have slipped and are pushing against my sciatic nerve, the cartlidge between the vertebrae's are ripped and torn, I now have arthritis in my back and that my L5 has healed in the broken position.
    (however, "everyone gets arthritis as they get older") was their response.
    The managers and supervisors do not even want to deal or listen to any complaints from the clients.
    I have contacted PIPA (Personal Information Protection Act) and even they were at awe when I disclosed what had been done to me regarding my information. They are very busy, however, are working on getting an investigator on my file as soon as they are able.
    I am currently seeking for good legal counsel for my situation.

    My fight will continue to the bitter end, as i am not a quitter. I will stand up for myself and anyone else who is in the same situation ("WCB-CASE FILE NUMBER")

    Insulting and belittling persons on WCB seems to be their main goal.

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  12. I suffered severe injury on the job in Saskatchewan; Non-medical WCB employees deliberately denied multiple physician requests for specialist appointment; X-rays identified spinal fractures; WCB refused specialist appointment, WHY? because GP Physicians are not allowed to order MRI. No diagnosis = No Claim = No Costs = Lifetime Pain - Poverty - Misery; WCB = "Worst Criminal Bastards" = "Psychopathic Perverts"

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  13. I agree with you all. My husband had a back surgery we don’t know what was actually done or who actually did what. His wcb file states 2 different doctors did to 4 different procedures. Also the doctor left the province a month later. He also seen 34 different doctors this is not a exaggeration. And no one will tell us exactly what happened or what is excactly wrong. I have contacted every government official in Alberta even the prime minister the labour minister everyone to get no where. The inhuman dehumanization the abuse the fraud. I thought in Canada we have rights. Constitutional rights human rights. If I committed any of these offences I would be prosecuted and sent to jail. These people from wcb play god and puppet masters to tax paying citizens who got injured by accident. And than are forced to go on wcb not because they want to it’s the only other income to help survive because they can’t go back to work. These poor people who I watched and see and have proof that wcb are manipulating mental physically emotionally financially abusing and dehumanizing controlling innocent people. I watch my husband suffer everyday. All the little thing we taking for granted he can’t do I bet you other people too. I am going to Supreme Court of Canada next. I can’t just sit here I have tried everything. Any advice please thanks I wish you all the best in your journey.

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  14. Its a crazy thing....nobody goes to work thinking this will be the day I get hurt...end up on an operating table and my life changes forever. Nobody goes into the hospital thinking there gonna take it hard up the bum by this organization(wcb)...nobody goes home all busted up thinking that they will have to struggle financially at the hands of these bureaucratic idiots.....nobody goes home from the hospital thinking...All my rights are gonna be taken away by a system designed to protect business and not the injured. The system is so ridiculously dumb and absurd that its hard to grasp what it is that is being done to you....read the legislation and then read the wcb policies...the two dont really match up...wcb makes things up to suite their narrative and calls it policy

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