Sick & Tired Of Va Second Guessing Imo's

[Rockhound]

I always thought if their was sufficient evidence of record, IMO's, private medical records, etc. to prove onset in service or within the time limit after service, a current diagnosis, and a quantifiable nexus statement, then a C&P exam isn't necessary.

It seems the VARO is using its porogitive, or right, in deciding if a C&P exam is necessary in way to many claims. That they are then using these exams, which tend to be most unfavorable to a Veterans claim, to then use them to deny an otherwise legitimate claim, causing the Veteran to spend countless time and effort in appeals, remands, and even as much as taking their claims all the way to the courts, only to spend more time in directed remands and the likes.

If an IMO is insufficient for rating purposes, then why doesn't the VARO return their reports for the necessary requirements, instead of sending the Veteran to a C&P exam that has to start from page one, when most of the information necessary for the Veterans claim has already been done or covered in the IMO?

If I wasn't already slightly right of paranoid, I would be thinking conspericy or at the very least, colution with the C&P Examiners to give directed opinion in such a manner unfavorable to Veterans.

It's kind of like the chicken house being guarded by the Fox.

It just doesn't make sense any other way. It is quite apparent to me at least that many C&P exams are less than addequate for rating purposes, even to go as far as to not provide the Veteran with necessary tests, exams, specialist reviews and other requirements for a proper opinion, relying more on their own views and what little they deam probative from existing records, non of which comes from sources not controled in some way, shape, or fashion by the VA claims process.

Something stinks and the smell isn't hard to notice from which direction it is coming from.

Rockhound Rider :P :( :P :P :o :o

Edited November 13, 2008 by Rockhound

[Rockhound]

I can waddle like a duck, LoL But I can't run nor flap my wings like a duck. My last experience with water was in one of our city parks by a river. For no other than a stupid reason, they turned on the sprinkler or at least their automatic timers did, in the middle of the day when they shouldn't have and before I could get my chair moving and out of the spray zone, I was as wet as the underside of a duck. It probably look funny to someone watching me, but I wasn't laughing, I could has shorted my chair out with that spray coming up from underneath my chair where the electronics and battery turminals are not that well protected, since the manufacturer figures that the water would be coming from the other direction and going through small puddles wouldn't be a problem either.

Oh yea! If I get hungry enough, I might go down to the park and trap my a duck or two, but otherwise I guess there all safe for now.

Rockhound Rider :D B) B)