- Joined
- Feb 25, 2021
This is the first PCP who's dismissed him (that we've heard about) so it won't get this bad for a while. If he goes to another PCP in the same medical group (this is assuming his PCP's office is part of a larger group, of course) he's likely to start out with a behavior contract or at least an agreement discussed on their first meeting, since the next PCP will be warned.
I don't know about PA state law, but there may be a distance restriction that e.g. the last office but one to blacklist Lou has to keep him.
I don't think this is the reason, because Lou isn't bright enough to hide it if it were. If he were upset that his doctor wouldn't fill out SSI forms, he wouldn't have led with his inarticulate statements about scheduling/transportation. He would have talked about how unfair it was that his doctor was being discriminatory by insisting that he wasn't disabled, and not brought up his stepfather's dialysis days at all.
I think it's more likely that Lou applied once for disability and has not pursued it at all since. He has probably whined parenthetically to his PCP that he wants to be disabled and can't wait for retinopathy, and he thinks that that automagically is helping his SSI "case," that there's someone in the government waiting eagerly to read every doctor's note from Lou without him filing for review.
Now that we've heard Lou's self-recorded and published verbal statements, and we've read his attempts at clear writing, it's apparent that he's not good at self-advocating, or even self-expression. He can beg, but he can't navigate complex systems.
My only hope is that Lou's records contain lots of verbatim Lou-quotes, so the next provider knows what they're getting into. "Patient reports he is on 'red meat diet' and will only eat spaghetti during televised sports games."
LOUMAN SHIELD 2 ACTIVATED! 
