Posted on 09/24/2009 8:50:42 AM PDT by fiscon1
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review just reported on matters I've been covering for the last three weeks with this story.
In an action he acknowledged was highly unusual, the chairman of a congressional subcommittee personally intervened to restore the job of a top physician in the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health System.
Dr. Anna Chacko, head of the radiology department in the veterans health agency, went back to work after Rep. Brad Miller, D-Tenn., wrote a letter to VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki. He said "there is something very wrong in the management of the VAPHS."
According to the May 15 letter, Chacko was placed on involuntary leave and barred from entering her Oakland office at the VA's University Drive site unless accompanied by a police escort.
(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...
ping for later
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