• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Tendons don’t show up on xrays.

    Tore my achilles tendon, doc needed to do an MRI. Insurance company wouldn’t authorize an MRI without an xray first even though literally everyone else knew they don’t show up on xrays.

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        9 months ago

        That was the thing, I needed the MRI to START physical therapy so they knew exactly where the tear was and to what extent it was torn.

        So I limped around in agony for a few extra weeks while the doctors explained how they were, in fact, “doctors” and the insurance company was not.