Posted on 07/05/2009 2:41:42 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Is Gary Kao a renegade physician, or a sacrificial lamb - or maybe just a doctor who was allowed to get in over his head?
Kao is the only person whom officials have identified in the unfolding scandal over substandard radioactive seed implants at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center ---snip--- From top to bottom, that report concluded, there was a lack of concern for safety and accountability.
That's a chilling denunciation, considering that the VA worked with eminent institutions -
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Just another fed program. The injustice to the vets on the colonoscopy fiasco should be front and center, yet it isn’t. (hijack off)
Yeah, I want to be massively taxed to give up my private health care for VA or Indian Health System federal health insurance.
I want to pay extra to get third world care.
And folks want Obamacare!
There’s a reason the Obamaloon went into politics and not into an actual brains-requiring profession.
Heh!
the dirty secret is that the major VA Medical Centers - all or nearly all of them have a Medical School next door - center around the needs of med students, interns, residents, and fellows......with the exception of primary care guys, the former have carte blanche, no questions asked.........the VA also runs tons of research and experimental stuff, with and without the knowledge of we patients.
Veterans health is (at best!) the second priority of the VA. Others might feel differently per their own experience, but this is what I have repeatedly seen and been subjected to for more than 7 years now......
I am fortunate....my VA primary is a PA and also a Vn Vet.....I have a great relationship with and trust him.....I always get the required policy speech/whatever, but he has not once steered me off-course or wrong wrt whatever happens in other clinics/services.....having been in-country at exactly the same time and also a medic allows an understanding between us that sometimes doesn’t require spoken words.....fwiw, other Vets I have met who are also his feel the same about him.....very, very lucky......
Back in the mid-70s, I worked briefly for the VA and was assigned to a VA Hospital as a counselor. One of the things I noticed was that there were, with some exceptions, two types of physicians working there. American-born and trained doctors who were in their 70,80s and 90s. Some you could almost call “feeble”. The remaining doctors were young, but they were foreign born and trained. There were few, if any, young or even middle-aged American doctors working there. So I quickly figured out that the best, most competent doctors were out in the private sector making the big bucks while these guys, mabye not so competent, were working for the government, making far less money.
not much of that has changed.......then there is the attitude problem of the slackers on the bloated non-professional staff with gummint-jobs-for-life, to add insult and unnecessary and uncalled-for grief to injury....
The only complaint my husband has ever had about care from the VA is you absolutely cannot get in for emergencies, they are great for preventive care, anything else Medicare is a godsend.
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