Vas Knowledge Of Disease Vs. Claim Date

[Guest jangrin]

If there is evidence in a vets medical file regarding DMII and the VA didn't do anything about it. And then a few years later the VA treats and diagnoses the vet, and the vet then files a claim for the DMII. Will the compensation be from the date of the claim or from the date the VA first knew about the DMII?

I suspect it is from the actual file date but was curious. Thanks for your imput.

Jangrin

[Guest jangrin]

Thats what the problem is. Evidently they did nothing no tests, no follow-up. This is why I'm not sure if there is anything we can do.

Jangrin

Edited September 5, 2006 by jangrin

[Guest jstacy]

Do you have copies of all his labs done at the VA? Even before 02. There has to be a link somewhere unless they wrote it down and realized they made a mistake. Given the assembly line health care in mass quantaties, There has to be utter confusion. and I may say, Before the VISTA system There was a bunch of stuff just plain lost.

[Guest jangrin]

unfortunately, prior to my husband being dx w/ DMII in Oct 2005-the only other times he was at the VA was-

for a knee injury in about 2000 he was seen once for a surgical consult referral.

and then once in 2002-this was for a testicular cancer exam-this is when they had two to notations about DMII but nothing else.

He wasn't seen again until he was having severe problems in Oct 2005 then he was dx all at once with DMII, HBP,HTN, CAD. all dx within 4 to 8 weeks.

Jangrin

Edited September 5, 2006 by jangrin

[Berta]

Any time he had blood work done- annual physical, whatever they saw him for---

there will be a Blood Chemistry Report.

It will show the glucose values and then show the normal values on the right hand side.

Look at the bottom for HBIac -that too would be a glucose reading-if he ever had this done

A high Creatinine reading and also anything high in the Tryglyc/chol range can( can not always) show beginnings of diabetes,

also high Triglceride readings should be followed up with lipid specimens-in many cases.A high hypertriglceride hypothesis can mean heart disease-

I am not a doctor- what I saw was circled and checked abnormal values- and at the bottom of blood chem reports indications further tests would be done- they never were done-

it took me months to realise what "RO/CAD" meant in 1995-

"follow up on CAD" ---rule out heart disease-follow up to be done on CAD tests-never happened-

Also the Urinalysis results can show potential diabetes-

I studed until I understood every single chem report symbol, value and med entry in my husband's records.

Doctor's entries like the one your mentioned can also help prove a claim like this-in your case-

VA tried to tell me that my assessment of numerous medical symbols and entries was inaccurate-

I knocked that down-I said they were wrong as I use Medilexicon and the same acronyms that are used in the standard medical community. The VA cannot make up some new meaning of a known medical acronym just to deny anyone's claim.

More than anything else it was learning what the medical abbrevs and acronyms meant that got me FTCA /1151 award and got me my three IMOs that support my present AO claim in VA doctors note and entries.

Again this is hard work-I suggest getting an IMO to anyone who wonders if their care has been proper.

I bet the VA saves many more lives then they mess up-but with the stress they are all under, (the docs too) I think it is more than likely they are misdiagnosing veterans more then ever before.

Especially veterans with DMII.

The VA treats symptoms and does not-in each case-look for cause-

Diabetes can become expensive for VA-

I really believe they hoped Rod would die and I would not find out what really killed him- because they sure saved money on his eventual care-but they paid it anyhow when I sued them.

You certainly should first question the doctor who made that notation and try to get his response in writing.

This is good-I tried to contact a VA doctor months ago at the Syracuse VA.

His sec said by email he would read my letter when he returned from vacation.

Then the VAMC wrote and said he had retired and left the VA . He never got the letter?

He is still performing C & Ps for the VA.I just found that out-

He won't answer what I asked him-he cant-

They will get away with anything you allow them too and you must question the doctors if the care doesn't seem right.

Edited September 5, 2006 by Berta