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Requesting Professional Profiles Of Va Examiners

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I'm interested in trying to get a copy of a professional profile and/or statement of qualifications of each of my husband's VA physicians who examined him. Has anyone here ever done that in an effort to prove that a C & P Exam was flawed? Meaning that the person who performed the exam was not qualified in that particular area of medicine to render an opinion upon which a claim was subsequently denied.

If so, did you write to the VARO, or to the VAMC? Or to the American Medical Association?

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I think it is probably easier to get a board certified specialist to knock down the VA doctor's opinion. Most C&P exams are bare bones. A good narrative from your won IMO can turn the whole thing around.

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Actually, that makes a lot of sense and I've already tried that. The VARO denied the claim, even though I had three letters from my husband's surgeon, his internal medicine doctor, and Dr. Bash.

So I'd like to argue that the exam was flawed because the examiner was not a specialist in any of the two areas for which my husband was being examined during the C & P. From what I could gather, the doctor was a general practitioner, not a specialist, who does not have enough authority to even write prescriptions there, as she told my husband. I don't think she knows more than the gentlemen who offered IMO's.

That's why I'm asking if anyone's gone this route after striking out the first time.

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Well you have the right to ask and the VA should comply. Sometimes you might be able to google them.

Veterans deserve real choice for their health care.

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That is the reason you appeal it to the BVA, the IMO's and private dr statements should give it more weight than the C&P exam doctor, if it was denied at the BVA level then an attorney should be able to knock it down at CVAC if you have paid for an IMO for Dr Bash I am sure you are not ready to roll over yet.

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I know I'm in good company when I tell you that rolling over isn't my nature. We've already been to the Board three times, this is the second time to the Court. Plus stuff still at the RO waiting for the file to be returned. We're all over the map...

Anyway, if I find out I'm right about this doc, I'll add this fact to the appeal.

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Vicki,

I went to the library and asked the reference librian this question. I cannot remember the name of the book. However I am sure it was published by the AMA. It might be one volume or different volumes for each state.

When I got a favorable opinion from the Head of Immunology at the VA in Long Beach CA. I submitted his qualifications with the letter. I actually photo copied the page rather than list the qualifications. The page showed that he had been Board Certified since 1970. It also showed that he was the head of Immunology at the VA hospital in Long Beach. I even think it indicated that he was employed by the VA since 1970.

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