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A Look At My World...

I found a rather interesting article on CNN that does discuss a little bit of what I do for my day job.  I suppose the world being the world today, I should note here that anything I say here has absolutely nothing to do with my employer.  I'm not authorized to speak for them, I sure as hell am not speaking for them, and my opinions here are backed up with the last six years doing the job. The article lays out a little bit of what is happening in corner of the insurance industry that I'm in.  I deal with incredibly simple therapies, compared to most medical services.  I have nothing to do with surgery, diagnosis, or any sort of time-critical life-saving operations.  In most cases I am seeing the records of patients who are being released from a hospital after a stay to discover what ails them, and specialists at those hospitals will order and interpret the results of tests, and using their experience, write prescriptions for therapies that will keep patients al...