This is horrible. Absolutely inexcusable.
Dismantle the damned VA. Turn it into an administration that handles processing and payments to private doctors, specialists, and hospitals.
Seems like some of the maggots masquerade as medical workers!!
He died of sepsis caused by the wound care that was so poor that he suffered a maggot infection.
Sounds like a criminal investigation is called for.
Well, there's guilt right there.
I want names and pics of these people so they will live forever in disgrace on the internet
Wow!
The facility needs to be wrung through the ringer.
Sepsis is some serious $#!t.
My eighty year old dad got it. Turns out he had a ruptured appendix! At eighty! The docs said that doesn’t happen to people that age. He Didn’t complain, didn’t tell anybody. Just muscled through it till it got the better of him. Damn near gave me a heart attack. Fortunately we got him into the hospital in time. Took a while, but he recovered.
But this vet was in a place that should be keeping an eye on people. So-called professionals didn’t do their job.
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Not to be letting these dirtbags off the hook, but maggots were the most effective way of cleaning wounds available until quaternary ammonium became available.
Sometimes ignorance can b e embarrassing.
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Is there some relationship between the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal VA? I don’t know of any relationship between California and the VA system at Palo Alto.
Agreed. I didn’t think that was the case here, and you’re right about the utilization of them on occasion.
Makes sense sometimes.
I’m actually surprised Trump didn’t jump on this.
I know the Tulsa World. Well.
Didn’t anyone else notice they broke this after the election?
Absolutely! And leeches were/are used to suck the blood from severe bruises. Someone with a shiner simply puts a leech on it and lets it go to work.
The maggots were there doing what the doctors should have been doing. They were too little and too late, I guess.