Guess what? This is true of the private sector, too.

Kat

"St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I THINK THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS THIS IS A PROBLEM. IF THEY ADMIT THAT the job
is causing pain that interfers with your work and then spills over into your
non-work life, and then the doctor says it is not responding to treatment
and the only thing left is to be put on a job that gets away from the
problem, then the government has a problem. not many jobs left with no
keyboarding factor. they hate it if an employee has to be put on disability
retirment because they can not find a job that he/she can do. it is easier
to just deny that a problem is work related.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:01 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: my surgery


In a message dated 2/19/02 6:26:39 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>it is hard to get the government to accept a work-rekated problem like
>this.
>so i am filing that today, or at least starting the process.

Good Luck on getting compensation for the work related injuries, Ken. I
wrote
a review of repetitive motion injuries one. They are they coming
disability(despite what the Supreme Court says!) with all the keyboards out
there and that includes AB's as well.

Bobby