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Vietnam Vet Dies with Maggots Crawling in Wound
World Net Daily ^ | 12/2/2016 | WND Breaking News

Posted on 12/02/2016 2:16:10 PM PST by Maudeen

4 employees at VA facility resign, charges being considered.

Four employees at an Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs facility have resigned after a resident with a maggot-infested wound died while under their care.

Vietnam veteran Owen Reese Peterson, 73, initially came to the Talihina Veterans Center with an infection, but ended up with sepsis and died on Oct. 3.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: government; petehegseth; va
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Both of my folks were WWII Vets. These Veterans deserve better.
1 posted on 12/02/2016 2:16:10 PM PST by Maudeen
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To: Maudeen

Terrible. Help is on the way. Some serious house cleaning will happen by middle of next year.


2 posted on 12/02/2016 2:17:17 PM PST by RightInTheMain
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To: Maudeen

I am from the government and I am here to help you....die.


3 posted on 12/02/2016 2:19:12 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Besides the VA. . .have you heard how some of the nursing home patients are being treated. Our country has lost its way.


4 posted on 12/02/2016 2:20:38 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: RightInTheMain

I hope it isn’t brown. He doesn’t have the spine to do what needs to be done. We need somebody with a wrecking ball and a flame thrower.


5 posted on 12/02/2016 2:21:48 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Maudeen

It appears that WND has this story wrong somehow. The VA does not control state veterans facilities, as far as I know. Just sayin’


6 posted on 12/02/2016 2:22:53 PM PST by Ace's Dad ("America is Great because America is Good " Alexis de Tocqueville)
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To: Maudeen

“A physician’s assistant and three nurses, including the director of nursing, resigned in the wake of the investigation, said Shane Faulkner, a spokesman for the VA. “All four chose to resign before the termination process began,” Faulkner said.”

They need to round up these chickenshits and prosecute them for manslaughter!


7 posted on 12/02/2016 2:23:37 PM PST by vette6387
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I’ve said it a few times since Election Day and I’ll say it again.

After taking office, Trump needs to call a meeting (at the White House) of ever VA District manager and VA Hospital manager. it needs to be one of these “Come To Jesus” meetings. Trump will chair the meeting, not the head of Veterans Affairs.

The word must get out immediately that conditions WILL improve immediately or in short hellfire will come down on all of their heads - job loss, lawsuits against the employees BY the govt, etc.

Besides being the right thing to do, Trump will score positive political points with the public by showing him standing up for the veterans.


8 posted on 12/02/2016 2:25:06 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Maudeen; ExTexasRedhead

https://www.va.gov/opa/bios/

ALL of these criminal a$$holes need to be gone by the first of February!


9 posted on 12/02/2016 2:27:01 PM PST by vette6387
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Unfortunately, VA facilities can be little fifedoms ruled by the lowest common denominator, and protected by civil service rules. If you get on their PITA list, your are toast. In some places, the PITA list qualifiers includes expecting competetant care. Memory eternal for this guy.


10 posted on 12/02/2016 2:28:26 PM PST by firebasecody
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Wouldn’t these people be criminally liable for the man’s death thru negligence?.................


11 posted on 12/02/2016 2:29:06 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: clintonh8r

“I hope it isn’t brown. He doesn’t have the spine to do what needs to be done. We need somebody with a wrecking ball and a flame thrower.”

The right guy is Hegseth. Don’t trust Palin to have the fortitude to go after the people either. She is yesterday’s news now.


12 posted on 12/02/2016 2:29:14 PM PST by vette6387
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To: firebasecody

....and even competent care.


13 posted on 12/02/2016 2:29:29 PM PST by firebasecody
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To: Maudeen

Soon the VA will be handed back over the adults


14 posted on 12/02/2016 2:29:53 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: RightInTheMain

This was a state run facility, not federal..... Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs


15 posted on 12/02/2016 2:30:07 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: EagleUSA

Exactly!

For the morons who think & believe the Gubmit is here to help, chew on this story.


16 posted on 12/02/2016 2:31:05 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Maudeen

Yes, I have. That is why I vowed never to go to one and I fought tooth and toenail to prevent my now deceased wife from being placed in one her last few weeks on this earth.


17 posted on 12/02/2016 2:32:19 PM PST by sport
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To: Ace's Dad

My Dad went to a veteran’s facility and it was the VA.


18 posted on 12/02/2016 2:36:04 PM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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The "SEIU UNION Mentality" killed this Man.
He would not have died this way in ANY other Hospital.

19 posted on 12/02/2016 2:37:42 PM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: Maudeen

I don’t understand why anyone would go to a VA hospital for anything.

There are plenty of hospitals that would have treated them regardless of their ability to pay.


20 posted on 12/02/2016 2:39:27 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Brace. Brace. Brace. Heads down. Do not look up.)
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