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rehab for bus transport." The rehab was related to surgery which was deemed unnecessary and therefore, denied. That solved the bus problem. Wheelchairs were not rehabilitative but rather palliative and therefore, not covered under the terms of the plan as specified in section 103B-S2 cross reference durable goods 1116scb. Under the definitions of the contract of insurability - see stipulation 66.4 which defines unnecessary procedures as procedures not specified within the most recent issue of the appendix C listing of possible but not automatically necessary medical events, contacts, or exposures. Further, necessary procedures could only be accepted as such by the test of peer capability inasmuch as no regional provider could perform the procedure, it fails the test. Regional is defined not by proximity to any facility or affiliate of any facility but rather as a virtual domain comprised of the list of potential providers listed and limited to and exclusively to those assigned by and at the time of contract verification prior to signature or as later amended, verification and notice waived. "Meaning what?" a nearly maniacal mother screamed to this defensive and well meaning physician" when she went in person to sort it all out. "Two things. First, if no doctor in the limited subset of doctors in the plan - that's not the whole plan - if they can't do it, it is unnecessary." "Bullshit! Doctor Winter!" "Second, it means that I quit." He stood up, threw his reflex hammer at the wall, stormed out, until his distant voice dropping in tone like a train that has passed but still heard in the distance, "I fucking quit!" Far away, a door slammed. It shook the office. A mother, once again, sat alone weeping. The nurses would not go near. The room had become a funeral parlor with silence and spaced sucking gasps.

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