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Old 05-29-2012, 09:30 PM
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I guess veterans are always going to lose because the Republicans see the VA Hospitals as welfare entitlements and the Democrats see veterans as the hated military.
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Both Democrats and Republicans are wrong, Locksly.

Anything paid for in blood, sweat and tears or even weekly in hard cash like F.I.C.A....
should never be considered mere: "WELFARE or "ENTITLEMENTS"!

Only idiots or enemies should hate U.S. Military and/or SOLE GUARANTORS of Liberty & Freedom.


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The federal government has made the buildings here a the VA Hospital in Murfreesbooro historic and they are on the historic register now.


York VA Medical Center a historical 'treasure'
Facility built prior to WWII named to National Register
MURFREESBORO — Since 1940, soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen have been treated at what is now called the York VA Medical Center. It has seen the United States’ finest — those who have valiantly given service to their country — mending them from mental or physical illness, or both.

Its mission alone is of historical significance, and now so, too, is its campus.

The Murfreesboro Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District, which is now the Alvin C. York campus of the Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, recently was named to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Here in Nevada, Harry Reid uses the veterans to threaten the VFW, American Legion, etc. to go before the cameras and say "We support Harry Reid" when he's up for reelection.
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Darell,
Just how exactly does whimpy and whussy Senator Harry Reid use veterans: "To threaten the VFW, American Legion,etc. ..."?

Longtime denied membership to both highly respected and prestigious VFW and Legion by their hierarchies, just like about 5 million or so other Honorable Cold War Era Veterans Serving Country during: "WRONG Years" are/were,...I'm just a-tad-bit curious as to how even United States Senators can dictate what such veteran organizations must do or whom must vote for, or not?

Will such senators (superior veteran politicos also) Always act so much better and beyond reproach?


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I guess veterans are always going to lose because the Republicans see the VA Hospitals as welfare entitlements and the Democrats see veterans as the hated military.
I strongly disagree.
Well we will see soon.
Well 4 more guys from here at the old sailors and soldiers home and nursing home are leaving here this week and going to cheap contract medicare places or back wherever they came from..
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Old 06-21-2012, 08:22 PM
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Well no good being here with everyone dieing constantly all around and no hope of getting any therapy to walk so back to my basement bedroom I soon go.
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Well the powers that be in charge here use OBAMA new math and I can still not understand why they spent a million dollars fixing up the drug and alcohol building into private restrooms in each room and redecorated it just to close it down a year later [2011] and why they bought a new water pump for the hydro-therapy building at 40,000 dollars and then closed it down a year later. Now they want to close building 8 and 9 here after spending lots of money redecorating them and spend over a million tearing up the CLC or nursing home building to fix it into a place with bathrooms in each room and then they can move building 9 phy - rehab into the nursing home building . The math does not make any common sense to me , but then I am a Tennessee boy born and raised here. Why do these people always do what takes lots of money and do not see that the empty building where Drug and Alcohol was that they just spent over a million of our tax dollars on is where they need to send the building 9 people to as it is just like they need.
The old guys here in the nursing home could die with a minimum amount of care and with less pain than they will in some contract welfare medicaid medicare nursing home. But I forgot that veterans were just another kind of welfare . I do not remember any welfare medicare in the past when my veteran father and uncles were sick with malaria back then the Veterans Administration was what the country did to help the old veterans . There was no talk of veterans being just welfare entitlements to be got rid of .

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As we approach July 4, 2011 let us never forget the clarity and truth of these words; "no man shall have less". It is my pledge to all who visit this blog that I will never stop until this Nation's deeds match its "Support Our Troops" rhetoric.

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Good Luck to you and any other other DAVs being poorly treated.
You all DESERVE the very best that America has to offer.

Regardless, don't waste any time trying to figure out Obama or that: "OBAMA new math", and how such is so badly used on some VA Facilities & VA's charges or patients, plus everywhere else.

It's not his fault that he knows or cares very little about his job,...OTHER Than Keeping It.

Barack or Barry is solely experienced and interested in $upporter$, dope, ACORN community organizing, basketball, golf and marxism,...if one can believe his books and past and present actions.

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Failure Masquerading as Success
Rudolph Cumberbatch
AuthorHouse, 375 pages, (paperback) $22.49, 9781438911809
(Reviewed: June, 2012)
When Barbados-born, Harvard-educated surgeon Rudolph Cumberbatch joined the Veteran Affairs as chief of surgery in 1985 after years of private practice, he fully expected to do all he could to honor his veteran patients and protect them from harm. At the VA hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming, he received high praise for the staff’s professionalism and competence. But when he headed east to Tennessee to become chief of medicine at the Murfreesboro VA Hospital in 1992, he found “a toxic, dysfunctional environment” rife with “corruption, incompetence, and racial intolerance,” as well as “gross mismanagement, and devious and vindictive behavior.” He witnessed deteriorating medical care for veterans that, he reports, led to preventable errors, mistakes, and even unnecessary deaths.
Cumberbatch’s book is a highly detailed, vitriolic condemnation of the poor clinical care rampant at some of the government’s VA hospitals. The author carefully details the many issues of incompetence he encountered, naming names when possible and, when he can’t, using harsh pseudonyms (Dr. Slick Wilbert, Dr. Nasty, and Dr, King Crab, the latter whom he calls “an equal opportunity dispenser of rudeness and belligerence”). The author supports his numerous accusations and battles among various VA officials and staff with details from memos, correspondence and other interoffice communication, as well as newspaper articles.
While this appears to be a cathartic book, the author’s caustic approach could be off-putting for the average reader, distracting from Cumberbatch’s main message, which is aimed at the need for real change to the system to benefit veterans and their families. He concludes by suggesting ways the health care system should be altered, such as by putting critical care in the hands of clinical experts rather than bureaucrats with little knowledge of medicine.
The author makes clear that some VA hospitals are doing a harmful disservice to the veterans they should honor. His generally well-written book will appeal to those with the desire and means to improve the health-care system for the veterans.
Also available as an ebook.
Author’s Current Residence
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

http://www.blueinkreview.com/reviews/view/747


Veteran Loses Colonoscopy Case
Posted by ThirdAge Staff on June 1, 2012 5:37 PM
Years after thousands of veterans learned they may have been exposed to infections at government-run hospitals, many are still mired in legal battles seeking compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In the latest legal setback, a federal appeals court has ruled against a Tennessee veteran who claims he contracted hepatitis B after employees at the Murfreesboro VA hospital negligently failed to properly clean colonoscopy equipment. The ruling could have an impact on similar lawsuits against the VA.

The court found that Carl Huddleston's claim, filed more than three years after the procedure, came too late, even though he acted within months after he learned his health could have been endangered. The three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week.

Huddleston was one of more than 10,000 veterans notified in 2009 that they needed to be tested for hepatitis B and C and HIV infection because of endoscopic cleaning mistakes at VA facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Augusta, Ga. and Miami. The VA said Friday that 90 patients were found to be positive with one or more of the three viruses.

More than 6,000 of those veterans who were notified were treated at the Murfreesboro clinic, so the ruling could have an impact on other veterans seeking similar lawsuits in Tennessee.
http://www.thirdage.com/news/veteran...ase_06-01-2012


Ill Tennessee veteran claimed VA negligence too late
TN man blames hepatitis B on 2006 colonoscopy at Murfreesboro VA hospital
Years after thousands of veterans learned they may have been exposed to infections at government-run hospitals, many are still mired in legal battles seeking compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

In the latest legal setback, a federal appeals court has ruled against a Tennessee veteran who claims he contracted hepatitis B after employees at the Murfreesboro VA hospital negligently failed to properly clean colonoscopy equipment. The ruling could have an impact on similar lawsuits against the VA.

The court found that Carl Huddleston’s claim, filed more than three years after the procedure, came too late, even though he acted within months after he learned his health could have been endangered. The three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week.

Huddleston was one of more than 10,000 veterans notified in 2009 that they needed to be tested for hepatitis B and C and HIV infection because of endoscopic cleaning mistakes at VA facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Augusta, Ga., and Miami. The VA said in 2009 that 13 veterans tested positive for the hepatitis B virus, 34 tested positive for hepatitis C, and six veterans have tested positive for HIV.

More than 6,000 of those veterans who were notified were treated at the Murfreesboro clinic, so the ruling could have an impact on other veterans seeking similar lawsuits in Tennessee.

Huddleston’s lawsuit says he contracted hepatitis B, which can cause damage to the liver and kidney problems, from an October 2006 colonoscopy. But the VA didn’t inform him about the mishandling of the endoscopic equipment until February 2009, more than two years later.

He filed an administrative tort claim, which is the first step to filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against the VA, in December 2009, about 10 months after learning he had contracted the disease.

But a district court in Nashville ruled Tennessee law bars medical malpractice claims more than three years after the date of the negligent act, unless the plaintiff is claiming fraudulent concealment. The judges ruled that he missed the deadline to file a claim by just two months.

Euel Kinsey, Huddleston’s Detroit-based attorney, said he disagreed with the court’s ruling because states set different limitations on when claims can be filed.

“It seems to create an unequal application of the law because different states have shorter or longer statutes of repose,” he said.

Randy Kinnard, a medical malpractice attorney in Nashville who is not involved in the case, said Tennessee’s statute of limitations is the shortest in the country.

“Here, for medical malpractice, the claimant had at most three years after the negligence within which to perfect his claim, regardless of when he discovered that he had been injured wrongfully,” Kinnard said.

Georgia and Florida are in a separate federal court circuit than Tennessee, but Kinnard said the principles laid out by one circuit can influence another.

In Florida, there is a four-year statute of repose except in cases of fraud or concealment, and Georgia law bars medical malpractice claims that are brought more than five years after the negligent or wrongful act or omission.

http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20...gence-too-late
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