On Friday August 10th, I had an appointment @ HealthPointe in the Edmonton Hys Center beside the Royal Alexandra Hospital with Dr. Garvin Cheung. This is by far the most horrific medical doctor that I have ever met within the Workers Compensation Board predetermined Outcome Medical Assessment System in Alberta.
Dr. Garvin Chueng was not only extremely "condescending", rude, aggressively combative, insulting, arrogant and immature. His conduct from the very second he opened the door and entered my examination room was completely lacking professional conduct.
Dr. Garvin Chueng's combative manner is shockingly parallel to what kind of behavior an injured worker can expect from a WCB Millard Center doctor, and a WCB Alberta Claims manager.
I recognized him immediately as being the doctor who hurt me when he needlessly dug his thumbs into my spine during his previous Spinal Assessment what I now know to be a very EXCLUSIVE "Spinal Treatment Center".
I was cut off of the treatment that I "was" receiving at the U of A Chronic Pain Clinic as a DIRECT result of Dr. Garvin Chueng's report where he wrote; that my response was "exaggerated" when I jumped off of of the examination table screaming after he DUG his thumbs into my back. This was a completely unneccessary method of examination for a patient in my condition. Especially given that I am a patient that has been complaining of severe back pain and has been suffering these horrible symptoms for years.
What does that tell you about the Medical Qualifications of this doctor? Or the Clinic for that matter.
Inept and KOOKY Quack is my assessment?
It is my opinion that Dr. Garvin Chueng did with cognitive Malice, intentionally intent to inflict harm upon myself.
What other explanation can there be for this CRAZY medical behavior that borders on malpractice?
This is his conduct to: Try to inflict physical harm before even looking at my MRI, on BOTH occasions?
Doctors with low level Medical competency really do demean the entire Medical Profession in Edmonton, Alberta.
For the College to continue to license these Crackpot doctors really only continues to highlight the severe fractures in the Corporate Structure of tired old cronies within the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
Whatever happened to competency tests in this profession?
Insurance crony doctors getting super wealthy seems to be the primary goal of this organization, and "not" the protection of patients from abuses by crony physicians.
The only kind of treatment that Dr. Garvin Chueng has displayed to this point, is one of inflicting intentional harm and then terminating my Pain Clinic treatment.
Welcome to the KOOKY world of Back Surgery in Edmonton, Hellberta.
While we are on the subject, it is important to note that Dr. Jiang who operated on me to this day cowers from the WCB Alberta, because he knows that he conspired with Dr. Leslie Delima in March of 2006 to deny me critically necessary treatment for my neck injury suffered when I fell.
Dr. Jiang's conduct was nothing short of reprehensible when he conspired with Dr. Leslie Delima. The Royal Alexandra Hospitals actions of misconduct for allowing WCB Doctors to operate and Troll the halls of the Edmonton area hospitals freely, and without supervision. The Royal Alex Hospital, Edmonton is allowing these WCB Alberta Doctors to "Freewheel" within their hospital without filing reports of their obviously ILLEGAL practices of plotting against helpless and seriously injured workers in the R.A.H. hospitals' care.
To bad I am not part of this WCB Alberta conservative crony culture, because if I was I would then at least be able to DREAM about being treated someday.
Dr. Chueng was quick to point out that it was not "HIS" fault that the HealthPointe Pain Specialist Dr. D. Yakunchikov deliberately and with cognitive malice under the instructions from the WCB Alberta, did conspire to "Trick Me" into switching from the University of Alberta Chronic Pain Clinic to the VERY Exclusive HealthPointe Spinal Treatment Clinic.
He was very firm that it is not "His Fault" that I do not have "Sufficient Insurance" to pay for my Chronic Pain Clinic at the now famous and VERY EXCLUSIVE HealthPointe Chronic Pain Clinic.
Dr. Garvin Chueng was extremely "FLIP" and completely UNCARING about the plight of a seriously injured worker sitting in front of him telling him how horrific it is to have NO CHRONIC PAIN Clinic as a direct result of the abusive policies of the HealthPointe Spinal Treatment Clinic and the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta's abusive policy of denying critically necessary medical treatments to seriously injured workers!
This visit with Dr. Cheung was different because I took a witness with me so that Deb could witness the kind of deliberate focused abuse that is aimed directly at me with deliberate and cognitive Malice, simply more cruel and inhuman treatment by what is obviously now known as a direct WCB Alberta corporate crony Medical Practitioners Network.
It is No coincidence that the U.S. Corporate Giant in Spinal Treatment facilities in America, HealthPoint was given massive fines for Medicare fraud across the U.S.A. that were prosecuted by the U.S. DOJ
Or MPN's as they are known in the United States. Dr. Garvin Chueng made absolutely NO EFFORTS to hide his obvious disdain for being reduced to the level of having to meet a Medicaid (AHS) patient such as myself.
Albertans do not understand the intertwined policies of the WCB Alberta and the Alberta Health Services, they do not understand that the AHS has simply adopted the same policy of NOT TREATING patients into the AHS portfolio in order to slash costs.
For Dr. Garvin Cheung to even attempt to weasel out of HealthPointe's "DUTY of CARE" to; deliver unbiased, UN-bigoted and non discriminatory medical care to a seriously injured worker, is simply one more sad and pathetic attempt to escape legal culpability in what clearly in my opinion is a case of deliberately focused and cognitive Medical Abuse of a Seriously Injured Worker based on the "Disability of the Injured Worker".
This is a clearcut violation of Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by HealthPointe Edmonton, in which the Charter of Rights states very clearly that it is illegal to discriminate against Canadian citizens because of their disability.
Dr. Jiang's office has been extremely clever under the direction of the WCB AB, because WCB Alberta's crack team of legal hacks has determined that if Dr. Jiang never treats me for a period of 6 years they will be able to side step prosecution for the crime of deliberately denying me access to a TRUE Neurosurgeon, and colluding with Dr. Leslie DeLima within the Royal Alexandra Hospital to deny my treatment for my neck Injury on March 04, 2006.
This is all in keeping with the Royal Alexandra Hospitals ability to attract and keep a team of hack WCB Surgeons and other medical Quacks operating under full steam at the Alberta Health Services fully recognized primary WCB Alberta Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Hospital in downtown Edmonton.
It is NO accident that HealthPointe is located beside the Royal Alex (WCB) hospital.
During this Spinal Assessment exam I specifically asked Dr. Cheung to ask his close pal Dr. Jiang exactly what was discussed between Dr. Leslie DeLima and Dr. Jiang while I was drugged out of my mind on Morphine, and laying helpless in a RAH hospital bed with a broken back in March of 2006. He did not respond.
Just as in the Spinal Assessment that Dr. Garvin Chueng wrote 2 YEARS AGO @ HealthPointe when I asked him how could I actually accept HealthPointe as a legitimate Chronic Pain Clinic and Spinal Assessment facility when he was relying on MRI imaging that was OVER 1 YEAR OLD?
The very same blank stare looked back at me this time as 2 Years Ago when the HealthPointe Clinic deliberately conspired to deny me access to critically necessary treatments that are required for a patient who has suffered a Spinal Injury.
I told Dr. Cheung that it was not until earlier this year that I discovered that Dr. Leslie DeLima was a WCB Hack Doctor, and that Dr. Leslie DeLima entered my room and removed my neck brace causing me to cry out in pain, he then announced "There is nothing wrong with your neck". "That was your test?", I responded in terrible pain.
The WCB Alberta HACK doctor Dr. Leslie DeLima not only lied to a seriously injured patient who had just suffered a terrible trauma accident in the care of the Royal Alexandra Hospital; but he fully "MISREPRESENTED" himself when he told me he was Dr. Jiang's "Right Hand Man". How, odd I thought, given that I had never seen the two men together in the hospital.
I was terribly distraught and under severe mental and physical duress, I was almost inconsolable when Dr. Leslie DeLima sat on my bed beside me and lied to me about who he was, he never once told me he was the WCB Alberta Hack Doctor. Frightening really, given that the WCB Alberta had refused to deliver their own accident forms to me in the hospital at the request of my brother. My brother had to go pick them up for me, but yet the WCB Alberta "did" have the time to implant a crooked WCB Hack Doctor into my hospital room to Medically DEFRAUD me while I was under heavy sedation with repeated injections of Morphine Bi-hourly.
Since I was so heavily sedated, I did manage to scratch out a letter to my Neurosurgeon, that I now know Dr. Leslie DeLima never delivered or conferred. I now know that Dr. Leslie DeLima pulled the strings that ejected me from the Royal Alexandra Hospital WITH NO HOME CARE.
This was one of the most important things for me, I was seriously concerned that the Hospital had NOT investigated my injuries fully and that I would arrive home with NO CARE.
And that is exactly what happened when the WCB AB did not arrange for home care for me for another 4 days after I arrived home.
I would file a complaint to the Alberta College of Physicians, but I have already gone down that dead end road of filing a complaint to the CPSA.
When the Registrar sits on all the Medical Review panels including the WCB Alberta and Insurance boards, guess what? There NEVER will be an investigation into WCB Alberta's network of bogus WCB Hacks & Quacks. Injured Workers have long known what a WCB Alberta crony Olhauser and his buddies are, we know who constructed Alberta's MPN or Medical Practitioners Network. The Network of Quacks and WCB Hacks for the specific purpose of denying seriously injured workers quality, relevant and timely medical treatments for their injuries.
This is my opinion. There can be no other conclusions given the HORRIFIC treatment that I have received at the hands of the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta.
To add even more severe mental and physical duress, when my family doctor would contact the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta and tell them that I urgently needed a treatment, medication or something so simple for a patient with a broken back like a bed: Whomever my doctor would speak to when he phoned WCB Ab to talk to their WCB Alberta HACK doctor, he would respond with: "Well he NEVER complained of Neck Pain when he was in the Hospital".
Only one Kooky Doctor who could repeat this WCB Ab LIE, Dr. Leslie DeLima.
This statement by the WCB Hacks and Quacks left me so emotionally stressed out that I would leave my doctors office and go home crying in pain, in a state of horrific mental duress knowing full well that this signaled that I WOULD NEVER be Medically Treated for my Injuries. These repeated malicious and mentally torturing events have sent me into severe depressions on many occasions. This is what forces severely injured workers into committing suicide, it is horrifically taxing on my body when these events occur, which is much to the sicko delight of the Alberta Workers Compensation Board.
This calculated and malicious attack on me by Alberta PC Government Gangsters can only be classified as deliberate CORPORATE GENOCIDE aimed @ seriously injured workers by our corrupt PC Government. These hate filled policies are deliberately targeting the destruction of Workers families as a direct result of these Sociopathic policies.
I am scanning my original letter to Dr. Jiang my Neurosurgeon who I now know, NEVER received the letter Dr. Leslie DeLima promised me he would forward to Dr. Hong Xing Jiang. I am posting it with my other documents at the bottom of the page.
Obviously the HealthPointe Health Clinic as they bill it, must be part of Alison Redford's new "Family Care Clinics" that she is proposing.
The glaring problem with these privatized care clinics is precisely what I was duped into believing was a legitimate referral to a legitimate Chronic Pain Clinic.
I was completely unaware that I was being lured into a WCB Alberta Medical Practitioners TRAP. This MPN Trap was designed to trick me into believing that I would actually be receiving the same or better care than what I was already receiving at the University of Alberta's Chronic Pain Clinic. that I waited a year for admission to the U of A program.
Then of course was the ultimate humility that looms larger than any dirty sinister trick that the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta has ever pulled on me, and that is using the bogus HealthPointe Spinal Assessment Clinic to DENY me ACCESS to critically necessary medical treatments for my condition.
These events have exposed the HealthPointe Medical Clinic as just another sinister manifestation of the Workers Compensation Medical Denial program.
The very saddest part of this entire HealthPointe fiasco is that this is the very best that the province of Alberta can come up with, considering that there are seriously injured workers like Ralph Teed who have been fighting this horrifically corrupt system for over 20 YEARS now!
Alison Redford's "new" Health Care Clinics are in my mind a new program to ensure that victims of workplace accidents and work related disease are funneled directly into the arms of these Workers Compensation Board of Alberta approved MPN's or Medical Practitioner Networks as they are more appropriately named in the U.S.
Well here is the proof that the privatization of HealthCare in Alberta is already complete, because private Health Clinics like HealthPointe have now on two occasions over a period of over 2 years have now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that PRIVATE HEALTHCARE is here to stay in Alberta, and it is alive and fully functioning just like Klein envisioned; DENYING seriously injured workers proper, timely relevant medical treatment.
Why is it that the old tired cronies like Dr. John F. Cowell who now runs the Health Quality Council is still having money heaped on him in the new bogus HQCA?
Dr. John F. Cowell was the CEO of the Workers Compensation Board back in 1997, and was directly involved in slashing the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta Budget in HALF! How did he do it?
Simple: The Workers Compensation Board of Alberta simply STOPPED treating treating patients! That is what is so ingenious in the WCB AB plan. It is so simplistic in its approach.
So now the AHS has simply transposed those Medical Treatment Denials into their approach to Health Care in Alberta, and guess what? Costs go down.
And now we are to believe that Dr. John F. Cowell is going to investigate the very bastards who are inflicting so much pain and suffering when they conspire to DENY critically necessary medical treatments within our Hospital system, the WCB of Alberta? His old BOSS?
Who exactly do you believe was responsible for DOCTOR INTIMIDATION in Alberta? The WCB Alberta that is who! Why do you think that Alison Redford is allowing the HQCA CEO to determine the "Terms of Reference" in this investigation.
Do you know who else regularly uses this very terminology? Correct, the WCB Ab, that is who.
So to summarize, having Dr. John F. Cowell direct the investigation into DOCTOR INTIMIDATION is like having the Edmonton Police Service investigate themselves, it always has the exact same outcome: "There is no evidence of wrongdoing".
This is the Hellberta WAY, hiring old cronies to investigate their own corrupt ex employers.
I was correct, Alison Redford is simply one more "Chosen ONE" for the PC Assoc. of AB. Oops I stand corrected, it now appears Mr. Katz is her star supporter.
Monday, August 13, 2012
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My experience with Dr Cheung was very similar.
ReplyDeleteI am not a WBC claimant. I was referred to HealthPointe by my family doctor.
Condesending, arrogant and combative are terms describing Dr.Cheung's manner that I would agree with. He leaves you feeling like you've been emotionally raped.
My experience was that twice after repeated requests from my pharmacist HealthPointe left me short or without medication that Dr. Cheung had prescribed.
The receptionist at HealthPoint lied both times about the fax responses that she had allegedly sent my pharmacist.
So it appears that not only Dr.Cheung is low on professional ethics, but the entire organization appears to be comtemptious of their clients.
I to have been going to Healthpointe medical for almost two years . I am not on WCB but had wage replacement insurance through work . I was a trucker , hauling logs ect. in Northern Ab.
ReplyDeleteMy first initial appt. with Healthpointe left me feeling hopeful . That hope did not last long . Dr Lubetska was my pain management specialist , a joke . I went to her in Nov. 2011 in severe pain , frustrated that the pain was so bad and nothing was working that she had prescribed . At this point they had not told me what was wrong , all I knew is my neck and head hurt so bad I knew I couldnt carry on safely with my job . I was begging for help.
She proceeded to tell me I was in the wrong spiritual place , to clear the work space in my mind and go do yoga , she rudely threw some Lyrica at me , felt like I was going crazy . Started the lyrica , did help some along with tons of tylenol ect .
Was on it for 3 weeks or so when I was coming back from Fox Creek with a load of logs on the hwy. All of a sudden my vision blurred out ,managed to pull over and waited for another one of our trucks and followed him to town . Quit Lyrica and they joined the pile of pills that did not work . At one point she prescribed me Raliva and tramadol , same drug one just has tylenol added to it . Was not feeling good ,so brought all my pills to my family dr. He was astounded I was overdosing with the presciption she gave me , he was amazed I had not had a brain siezure . That would have been good rolling down the hwy .
According to Healthpointe she does not work there anymore , who knows .
They had me scheduled to burn my occipital nerve off in my neck to try and kill the pain . What a joke ,phoned them three times before my appt. and asked about medication , was brushed off .Went into the procedure with no pain medication . started passing out on them,had to stop the procedure .
The dr. doing the procedure called it a mis communication between dr. I should have been on something.
I have been off of work since Jan. 2012 . Insurance has denied me and am fighting with a lawyer . I finally found out my diagnosis jan.2012 . Mechanical neck pain they called it.Not an xray or ct scan was done by healthpointe , I finally got another ct. scan and I have 4 disks collapsing one is herniated , my first and second vertabrae are degenerating and trying to fuse to my skull . Hmmm wonder why it hurts . I had some neck issues before going to healthpointe but had done physio and was doing good til I went to a chiropractor(Ted Lyons ) and he cracked my neck with such force that I havnt been the same since ,no one would take the time to see what had been done to me . As soon as you mention another dr. subject is changed . I went for physio in so much pain three days later , my skull wasnt even sitting on my neck straight . So here I sit slowly getting worse no income and knowing I can never return to my profession . Our whole system is a joke. I was happy to find your blog , now I know I am not the only one thanks
Mary Loetkeman (redrosecountrygirl@gmail.com
I can relate with all I've been reading in your blog so far. I've encountered several quacks since being injured last december. I was discharged by the quack and a physio crew at a mill called lifemark in grande prairie. They decided after an assessment which reinjured me about 3 weeks prior that I was fit to return towork. They didn't get my name right in their assessment reports. They falsified the report that they used to justify discharging me. Its no doubt that they did what they are paid to do but I have to really wonder how sociopathic a person has to be to do what they do or to be a wcb case manager. They destroy lives everyday, and they could care less. I am still seeking a non wcb lawyer that is willing to work on a contingency fee basis however. The medical personnel I've encountered in the past 5 months need to be held accountable. I recorded all of my visits with the quacks, they cannot deny their predetermined 'diagnoses' when questioned at a later time.
ReplyDeleteI believe that wcb will be exposed fully for the criminal org it is, eventually. It will be a great day when that happens.
Rhonda MacPhee
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I am glad i stumbled across your post. I have been abused by WCB and the Mallard centre, physically, mentally and emotionally. They soon will be exposed and are under investigation. I too, heard warning reports about Healthpointe and refused to go when found out how much they are affiliated with WCB, Mallard Quacks. I have chronic back from a serious injury and scoliosis, they always undermined my pain, and accused me for lying because i was not making a grimacing face when the doctor briefly lightly touched a couple points on my back which was painful but for me these facial expressions sometimes amplify my pain so i try and suck it up. i told the doctor that it was painful but he wrote the opposite on his report. I am now getting the best treatment with a local doctor, chiropractor and other treatments that focus truth, caring, respecting your health and humanity.
ReplyDeleteI have been attending Health Point for over 1 year. My first physician was Dr. Cheung, whom within seconds of sitting down in front of me got in my face about being angry and that is why I have pain. This man is just plain mean and aggressive. I have recently had my 3rd shoulder surgery for a slap tear that occurred in the work place. He defiled who I am by psychologically choosing words that insulted my core and my intelligence. He is unprofessional and opinionated and unrelenting in his aggressiveness. In that fall I blew out my low back and several discs which require spinal injections. If that was not enough, I injured my knees and elbows. My right knee now needs a total knee replacement. The left does not look any better either.
ReplyDeleteThey are hell bent on pushing the envelope with me. Just three months ago two quacks botched my sciatic injections.New and in training quacks! I did not think I would survive the weeks after. I was literally using my husband to help me even toilet. They have never done any recent diagnostic testing, none the less they tell me they know what is best for me. I thought it was insane when the physiotherapist wanted me to jump up and down on legs with knees that are due to have total knee replacements. When I refused, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Gonzales had much to say. Telling me I needed to attend their physio dept. with horrific costs not covered. Dr Gonzales wanted to inject salt water into my shoulder tears that would aggravate the shoulder into healing in whatever position. that would include even more loss of function. Thank goodness that my surgeon had disagreed and thought it was ludicrous! The constant "Mindfulness" lectures which lead me to buy books that taught me nothing was the worst. I did a pool program at the U of A which Dr. Gonzales was delighted to hear and approved of. But just this week he changed his mind and said I should be at his physiotherapy clinic. Then asking me to do collage therapy(cut and paste picture out of magazines)as he did and it brought out all kinds of things in his past.. "Honestly", I said, "I'm not not into anything like that" but he still persisted. He really pushed it hard. By this time everyone in the entire room occupying other beds had gone silent and they were all listening to this 40 min blast in this you will do something that I ask you to do session.
I have had nothing but uncalled for remarks, grief and upset in this facility. They are opinionated and uncaring of the very people they claim to help. Their support staff have given me the run around and not even allowing me to book future appointments. Sometimes taking me weeks just to resolve what ever their issue is. Sometime in their day, they must answer that phone instead of it going to voice mail.
I am finished at this place, I don't appreciate all of the politics, games,antics and the in your face disrespect which makes me upset and it makes my pain level unbearable. Quite frankly this place insults and offends me greatly. I was so glad to find this blog and have saved it. What has happened to me is quite a mirror image to most of the posts here. But I will tell you, when you get someone who loves this place or pumps the events not to what is reflected experiences of the rest of us, they are filing a fake situation in favor of the doctor or clinic.
I have 2 WCB claims, so I fully understand how excruciatingly painful dealing with them can be.
ReplyDeleteOddly, I asked to go to HP because I needed the Tx I was not getting through/from WCB. While I agree that Dr Cheung is not the most pleasant Dr to deal with, his referrals for what I required for my pain management team, were exactly what I needed. I actually find HP to be highly professional, enough so that I recommend them to my Chronic Pain client's. But, my experience is not yours and I am in no way demeaning your experience(s).
I used to co-own a WCB Approved Physio clinic, so I know what a contract with WCB entails. It is not at all what you all seem to think it is. Therapists are not getting rich from treating WCB Clients. In fact, a standard single PT session, is paid out at around $35, while the average private pay cost for the same Tx is about $70-90 in Alberta. WCB dictates how many Tx sessions, and if the PT applies for more, there is no guarantee that they will be approved. There just is not a financial reason to bias in favour of WCB. This is not conjecture, this is fact. WCB has NO INVOLVEMENT in the assessment and treatment, they only get reports based on said Ax and Tx.
Every single Dr that works in any AHS facility is required to be a member, in good standing with the Alberta College of Physicans and Surgeons. Under no circumstances are they allowed to do anything unethical or illegal. If you feel any Dr you have dealt with has wrongfully harmed you in any way, then you should be reporting said person to their College.
Just one point to make about the removal of a neck collar. Studies have shown that the use of a neck brace slows the healing of the muscular and lugamentous structures. It also significantly increases the likelihood that you will have chronic pain, with your neck. The only time it is now used, is with a fracture, or a suspected fracture.
Saline Injections. They are called Prollo Therapy and are very effective in speeding the healing of soft tissue. It does so by irritating the area and the body responds by putting the area into healing. Short of surgery, it really is the only thing aside from PRP (take blood from you, remove the Platelets in a Centrifuge and inject them into the joint capsule), that can shorten Ligaments back to pre-injury state, other than surgery. Most MDs simply do not know what this procedure is.
I wish you all the best, and I hope very much that you land in the right hands. From my personal experience, let the WCB crap get filed somewhere in your head and only open it when you crucially need to. WCB can consume you, and it will just eat you away. I have no love whatsoever for them, and that is the opinion most WCB Approved health providers actually have.
Dr. Galvin Cheung is a sociopath and is not fit to practice as a doctor. I'm glad that when you google his awful, embarassing name, that stuff like this shows up. How has that JOKE of a clinic, HealthPointe, remained open despite CONSTANT criticism, specifically about this doctor too? Bizarre. Galvin is a loser, plain and simple. Always has been, always will be. So he takes it out on others. Guess he couldn't get a real job.
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