Ig On Tomah And Stroke Victim Case

[Berta]

This stuff upsets me:

In Part
"WASHINGTON – An investigation by the chief watchdog at the Department of Veterans Affairs found practitioners acted appropriately when treating a 74-year-old veteran who died after treatment at the VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wis.

The inspector general concluded a doctor failed to diagnose Thomas Patrick Baer's stroke as he waited to be seen in the urgent care clinic at the medical center, "however, the physician properly considered broad diagnostic possibilities," the IG report says.

His family took Baer, who was from Marshfield, to the clinic Jan. 12 and waited with him for more than two hours to be seen by a doctor. He suffered two strokes and was not given anti-clotting medication or a CT scan because the center's scanner was down"

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/news/2015/06/18/tomah-probe-finds-wrongdoing-stroke-death/28918761/

(they told me their Ct scan was 'broke' when I started asking them too many questions after my husband had been at local VA for almost 3 weeks due to what they said was an ear problem) but when I threatened to call my congressman, the CT scan was miraculously 'fixed' in 20 minutes revealing they had misdiagnosed a major stroke.)

The IG White Paper , 55 pages, can out today and I dont have time to read it all.....



ANYONE who feels they have been a victim of VA malpractice or whose survivors think VA caused their spouses death, should not reply on any IG investigation because
that is not the same as a FTCA claim and they need an Independent medical review of the entire clinical record,by an expert, and not a review from a VA doctor , as in this above story.

Here is the VA press Release of the White Paper OIG statement on Tomah




http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/press-releases/VAOIG-whitepaper-20150618TomahOPPI.pdf

[broncovet]

How do you spell "coverup"?

V-E-T-E-R-A-N-S A-D-M-I-N-I-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N

[Berta]

geeez..... I meant "should not RELY on any IG investigation." sorry about that

Nor should any one think, if the VA makes an 'incident report' regarding their care , on some problem regarding potential wrong diagnosis, wrong med, etc etc. the incident report means diddly squat. unless they file 1151/and/or FTCA, and in that case the incident report might be very important.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Berta

[Buck52]

Ms Berta,

I run across these regs which I am sure you know...I thought about your claim when I read this.

under chapter 1

§3.816 Awards under the Nehmer Court Orders for disability or death caused by a condition presumptively associated with herbicide exposure.

It explains some EED.

Interesting!

.................Buck

[Berta]

yes, that is the Footnote one Section of Nehmer.

It provided very favorable EEDS for veterans under the 2010 Nehmer presumptives if their AO disability was coded or 'should have been coded' in a past VA rating decision.

Also for survivors of these vets as well.

They gave me a 1988 date as the EED for my 2010 AO IHD death claim under Nehmer.

It was under the 'should have been rated part"

My husband's IHD was part of my FTCA claim for malpractice. It was never rated or listed with any DC code on any rating sheet.

The fact that I proved he had IHD, and it caused his death was all the evidence I needed ,under Footnote One Nehmer to succeed.

Nehmer is explained in detail here in the AO forum.Rick Spataro , head NVLSP lawyer, gave me lots of great help to make sure I presented Nehmer 2010 here correctly and to keep reminding anyone with a Nehmer claim to contact NVLSP to make sure they got the proper EED.

I still believe that many vets or their survivors are unaware of the 2010 Nehmer AO decision and the new AO presumptives since then, that were added to the AO presumptive list.

Edited June 19, 2015 by Berta