ptsd Reporters Looking For Veterans

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1. Reporters Looking for Veterans

Veterans for Common SenseFrom: Paul Sullivan at Veterans for Common Sense

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:15 PM

Subject: Reporters Looking for Veterans

Request for Veteran Interviews

Two reporters are seeking veterans and family members to interview about their problems dealing with military and VA healthcare.

If you want to volunteer in the next few days, please contact the reporter directly. Please limit your contact to one reporter. Please remember that you may be asked to document your honorable wartime military service (such as your DD214), or you may be asked very personal questions that may appear on TV or in a newspaper.

Here is a list of current press requests:

1. Kimberly Dozier, CBS National News, Washington, DC. If you believe you have PTSD but were discharged with a 'personality disorder,' especially if you earned medals and had a good record of service. You should also have clear records from highschool etc., before entering the military. E-Mail: KGD@cbsnews.com

2. Lynn Kellermann, WCBV-TV, ABC News, Boston. If you have PTSD and are having difficulty getting VA mental health appointments and/or VA disability benefits in the VT, NH, MA, RI, CT area. E-Mail: lkellermann@hearst.com

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Sincerely,

Paul Sullivan

Executive Director

Veterans for Common Sense

[john999]

Do you think vets who identify themselves to reporters will face retaliation from the VA? When the smoke clears will they settle the score with us if we talk about the DOD and VA.

[carlie]

Lady T,

I sue wish #2 - Lynn Kellermann, WCBV-TV, would have included the Florida area, I'd give her

an ear full along with the paper to back it up.

carlie

[carlie]

Oneshot,

1) What's your opinion on a VA ENT surgon that sexually assaults a patient

during an exam at a VA hospital.

2) What's your opinion on a radiologist at the VA that doesn't take time to

correctly read the X-rays, this also goes for the labs, lab reports, docs,

MRI's, Cat scans, etc...

3) What's your opinion on a suicidal veteran being in need of medical services

and the VA setting up a psyc appointment 4 months down the road.

carlie

[cowgirl]

"the claims system thats a different story." Yes, just search the internet a bit and see that the current "system" for processing Service Connected disability claims locks out veterans at the "front door" entrance for readily available and mandated medical care. My opinion. Other opinons available, visit Hadit.com. cg

[Josephine]

What about the poor guy that was killed on the psychiatric ward at the Salem Medical Center, Salem, Virginia? Over a carton of milk?

It wouldn't surprise me if the psychiatrist that was treating him wasn't the same quack that set me up with that phony C&P.

Josephine

[allan]

>Do you think vets who identify themselves to reporters will face retaliation from the VA? When the smoke clears will they settle the score with us if we talk about the DOD and VA.

Good question John.

How should Veterans be dealt with that go to reporters and "slam" the DVA's health care practices of abuse, mistreatment and malpractice?

I think "some" VAMC employees get away with their crap untill the rest of the clinic ends up taking the heat for it.

All it takes is one arogant jerk thinking he can get away with mistreating Veterans in the workplace, symply because he has to put up with some heat.

One thing that would help stop crimes against veterans is more video servailance of health care employees in the work place.

Does anyone know if using the internet to threaten veterans who speek out to reporters falls under FCC violations?