Anyone who has had disabling pain for lengthy periods of time can relate to what this poor woman went through. I can only hope that Karma will reward those who ignored her.
VA hospitals are not the place to go for emergency care. These are gubmint “care facilities” that provide substandard care, treatments, and pain management and all patient care decisions require a review board prior to admittance.
I watched my dad suffer at the hands of this system from 1968 through 1990 because of their botched decisions. When I look back it reminds me of books or movies where they portray Soviet era doctors as drunks who constantly make mistakes based on a 3 minute exam so they can go back doing what they were doing before being rudely summoned to see a patient in need of care!