Dr. Constance Hume Rodman, MD

Constance Hume Rodman, M.D. saw me as a patient in Albany, Oregon, in 1999. She disagreed with my personal assessment that I had type I juvenile onset, insulin diabetes mellitus, while I was on active duty in the U.S. Military, and the V.A. currently uses her false assessment of my health condition, made by her, in my claim for service connected disability. I just wished to inform her, as I understand she is now retired, that I was correct. I received care in 2007 from an M.D. that stated in my medical record, during a hospitalization that same year, that he had, indeed, diagnosed me with type I insulin dependent diabetes, at age nine, (9), nine years prior to my enlistment in the U.S. Military. I did not appreciate her claiming that I was "hostile" and "argumentative" with her, in my medical records, also, falsely claiming that I was not suffering from diabetes during my active duty service, Lebanon, Libya, and Desert Storm, active duty service, as the V.A. has utilized her… comments in their continued denials of awarding me service connected disability income, of which her "professional opinions" continue to stand against me with securing justice from the V.A. for both compensation and medical negligence, over the past twelve, (12), years. I am still awaiting a V.A. judge to award me my compensation, however, this should serve as a reminder to A.M.A. physicians that what I had diagnosed by Dr. Connie Hume-Rodman, which is Gastroperesis, is , as the Mayo clinic clearly states in their medical books, is that such a diagnosis as I had received in 1999 is a result of "long standing" diabetes. Being diagnosed in 1993, to my knowledge at the time, and having communicated to Dr. Hume-Rodman, that I had experienced symptoms of gastroperesis, a mere three, (3), years from my diagnosis, in 1996, in no way constitutes "long standing" diabetes, which is the Mayo clinic definition for such a disease. All this and yet Dr. Hume-Rodman refused to believe my facts and contributed, to this day, the unjust refusal by the V.A. for denial of my rightful VA compensation, harming both my health, as well as the basis for my loss of family members in my life, as well as my marriage. I would , for this reason, ask that this comment be a reminder to such physicians as Dr. Connie Hume-Rodman, that one would be more serving to take into account a patient's assessment, instead of noting false claims of which one has no true basis for contradicting a patient, when such patient information may be more relevant than one may realize. Also, being a health care professional myself, Dr. Rodman's legal medical notes that the VA continues to use against my claim, is a result of her own ignorance of my condition, and false assumption that I was seeking her approval for an untruth, when the opposite is the actual reality in my case. Doctors are not GOD/YAHUAH, although they often, "play" at that role, and to ignore a patient's statements and document the contrary , may , as in this case, be criminal, in both it's wording and intent, as she herself, is the one that was hostile towards myself, for no true reason other than she believed I was simply lying to her for some financial gain, which is , indeed, a crime, on her part. Enough said.