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Army vet sues VA over scalpel left in body after surgery
AP via WTNH.COM ^ | AP

Posted on 01/15/2018 10:22:02 AM PST by Puppage

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — An Army veteran is suing a Veterans Administration hospital in Connecticut after he says someone left a scalpel inside him after surgery, and it was only discovered years later, after he suffered from long-term abdominal pain.

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I'll never go to the VA.
1 posted on 01/15/2018 10:22:03 AM PST by Puppage
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To: Puppage
He's lucky he's not arrested for carrying a concealed weapon?

BTW, how many surgeries thru the VA result in a pet finder style microchip being left inside?

2 posted on 01/15/2018 10:25:48 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Puppage
“I'll never go to the VA.”

This particular VA is generally highly-rated. Many, if not most of the docs there are university affiliated (mostly Yale). Then again, Yale had their surgical training program suspended previously (in 2002), and has a mix of good and terrible physicians - like too many places.

3 posted on 01/15/2018 10:31:18 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: blackdog

Wonder if he was able to get through airport scanners.

Actually, if I had internal surgery done, I’d at the very least want to get an ultrasound done afterwards just to see if everything is in place.


4 posted on 01/15/2018 10:39:41 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Puppage

Nursing and other medical schools are rife with feminist propaganda and other efforts from the left (e.g., gun control).


5 posted on 01/15/2018 10:39:58 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Puppage

The bureaucrats at the VA will send the Veteran a letter threatening to disenroll the Veteran if the scalpel isn’t returned.


6 posted on 01/15/2018 10:41:26 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Puppage

The VA medical people are usually OK.

They only see their little part of the VA bureaucracy.

The Veteran sees the VA as a giant, uncaring monster.

This is mostly because of the VA bureaucrats.

The VA medical people need to shun the VA bureaucrats.


7 posted on 01/15/2018 10:45:42 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: glorgau
Wonder if he was able to get through airport scanners.

I had surgery at a VA hospital and they left about a foot or two of metal wire in me!

Good thing, too! It was stainless steel wire holding my sternum together after open heart surgery.

And yes, it has set off the hand held scanners at the TSA checkpoint. Never at the scanner 'Booth', though.

8 posted on 01/15/2018 11:02:03 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Puppage

“Well, excuuuuse, meeeeee!”


9 posted on 01/15/2018 11:02:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: neverevergiveup

The VA should be disbanded and veterans with service injuries should be given a lifetime good quality heathcare policy with no copays.


10 posted on 01/15/2018 11:59:50 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Puppage

Good thing they didn’t look for it with an MRI.


11 posted on 01/15/2018 12:13:54 PM PST by \/\/ayne (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / -- --- .-. . / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .)
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To: DesertRhino

Excellent idea but where will the government “workers” get jobs? How insensitive of you...


12 posted on 01/15/2018 3:36:39 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BwanaNdege

Since there are earnings caps for VA use many don’t qualify. Even 20 yr career Retired. Your spouses income is included but should be excluded. 100% disabled do use VA.

Being Medicare/Tricare Life all hubby’s is private, and he sets off the alarms, 2 partial knees and a shoulder ball. When he flew to Niagara Falls, NY from Memphis for his eldest brother WW2 Vet’s funeral service he used a Travel Agent friend of daughter’s to book his flights, had wheelchair waiting, special TSA service as they were pre-notified of the metal, wheelchair at plane changes, and a grade A car rental when he got there. For less than you’d normally pay. All he had was 1 carry on bag for a 4 day stay.


13 posted on 01/16/2018 6:37:29 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: \/\/ayne

Very true. I just have 2 screws in the R. Thumb base joint, and no more MRI’s can be done. Exrays would pick up a scapal though as it does the screws in my thumb. But MRI’s don’t effect gold crowns in your teeth.


14 posted on 01/16/2018 6:41:57 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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