diabetes Va C An P Revealed Health Problems Unknown To Veteran And Veteran Not Informed.

[DICK HILL]

FINALLY, AFTER FOREVER AND A DAY, I RECEIVED MY VA C-FILE. I HAD A VA EXAM IN 1989 AND AGAIN IN 1990. ON THE 1989 EXAM, THE DOCTOR WROTE THAT I HAD FOUR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE READINGS WHILE SITTING (148/100, 148/100, 146/100, AND 147/96). HE ALSO WROTE THAT MY BLOOD GLUCOSE WAS HIGH. THESE HEALTH PROBLEMS WERE NOT A PART OF MY CLAIMS FILED WITH THE VA BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW I HAD THESE MEDICAL PROBLEMS. A FEW YEARS AFTER MY MILITARY RETIREMENT, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND TYPE II DIABETES. MY QUESTION, IF ANY ONE CAN ANSWER IT IS: SHOULDN'T THE VA DOCTOR HAVE TOLD ME OF THESE MEDICAL PROBLEMS OR SHOULDN'T I HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE VA BY LETTER? WILL APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTS. THANKS

[Pete53]

C&P DOcs are ordered not to prescribe or make consults for Veterans. The ethetical ones will tell the Veteran but don't depend on that.

[Philip Rogers]

FINALLY, AFTER FOREVER AND A DAY, I RECEIVED MY VA C-FILE. I HAD A VA EXAM IN 1989 AND AGAIN IN 1990. ON THE 1989 EXAM, THE DOCTOR WROTE THAT I HAD FOUR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE READINGS WHILE SITTING (148/100, 148/100, 146/100, AND 147/96). HE ALSO WROTE THAT MY BLOOD GLUCOSE WAS HIGH. THESE HEALTH PROBLEMS WERE NOT A PART OF MY CLAIMS FILED WITH THE VA BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW I HAD THESE MEDICAL PROBLEMS. A FEW YEARS AFTER MY MILITARY RETIREMENT, I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND TYPE II DIABETES. MY QUESTION, IF ANY ONE CAN ANSWER IT IS: SHOULDN'T THE VA DOCTOR HAVE TOLD ME OF THESE MEDICAL PROBLEMS OR SHOULDN'T I HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY THE VA BY LETTER? WILL APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTS. THANKS

If these additional conditions were discovered at a C&P exam, (as you state) then the VA is required to rate those conditions and to rate them as to SC or NSC. If the VA failed to do so, at the time of the initial decision(ie: when they first knew about them), then you now have an open claim dating back to when they were first discovered/diagnosed, also called an "informal claim." Check your decision and see if they were discussed in the decision.

pr

Edited June 12, 2013 by Philip Rogers

[Pete53]

PR is correct I guess I misunderstood the question.