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  • Furloughs sending civilians packing (Military civilian medical workers quitting)

    08/28/2013 6:27:39 AM PDT · by SkyPilot · 22 replies
    Stars and Stripes ^ | 28 Aug 13 | Gregg Zoroya
    Nearly 3,400 military medical workers quit this year in the months when furloughs were threatened or being carried out because of spending cuts known as sequestration. The vast majority of those losses were with Army medical facilities. Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, the Army's surgeon general, says one out of 20 of her civilian medical doctors, nurses and other health workers -- or 2,700 out of 42,000 civilian health employees -- left their jobs for work elsewhere. She said departing staffers included highly skilled clinicians, scientists, researchers and other health workers. Eighteen percent were doctors and nurses, her staff says. Medical...