🚀 go-pugleaf

For all those people living in the Bay Area who happen to have been
injured on the job, I'd like to issue the following warnings:

1. If the workers comp insurance company that your employer is using
   is called "CNA", be highly suspicious of them. They are extremely 
   shifty and will use any and all means to ensure that your claim 
   will not be taken seriously and they will make any and all attempt 
   at skirting around workers comp laws. Furthermore, do not trust
   any doctor whom they recommend or to whom they send you. If a doctor
   or his nurse claims to have worked with CNA extensively before, then
   find another. The local workers compensation industry is, to be blunt,
   a racket -- a scam -- and CNA is an established player in this
   ongoing debacle.

2. If you can avoid dealing with occuptional health doctors named either
   Lowengart or Pugh, both working on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, then
   do so. Both of these doctors not only have very little if any competence,
   but they offset their lack of ability by an unusual flair for
   playing along with the Workers Comp Industry Scam. Yes folks, 
   They lie. They cheat. They'd probably even push a button to get a chunk 
   of banana, if you paid them to.  And, unfortunately, either of these will 
   systematically refuse to believe that you the worker are injured, 
   they will lie to you about your condition and how it should be treated,
   they will fail to inform you of your options or they will offer options 
   which would be destructive to your health and career, and they will do 
   whatever they possibly can to end your treatment prematurely.

Hence I say, PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS; the medical con-artist class will not.