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Col. et al,

I have a young VA female psychiatrist at our OPC who is living proof that you don't have to be a cow to know where milk comes from. She is fantastic and actually gets it when it comes to PTSD. She is dedicated to her veteran patients. Now, here's the catch. We just finally got the 2nd doctor we needed at the clinic and our clinic will be picking up 900 more patients. My shrink told me that a large number of these will also have mental health problems, many with PTSD. I asked her if she's going to get a Clinical Social Worker or Psychologist to help her with the new load. Her answer, "no...no way". It is making her rethink her own health as to how she's going to be able to do this. As I said on the General Posts side, same same as when I was working in the Vet Center....."Tom, do quality and quantity". I don't expect her to be working a lot longer for the VA. What a shame it will be to lose her. I also had a great doc at the VAOPC in Savannah before the one in Beaufort opened up. She left the VA because..."They just wouldn't let me practice good medicine." She was denied using many new perscription drugs that would have helped her patients. She stated that she ethically could not work for VA any more.

Still say we need to march on Washington to wake up ALL the SOB'S in Congress to what is happening and what's going to happen when many of the WOT Vets decide to leave the service due to way to many deployments.

Murph...love the Witch Doctor story!


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