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Berta
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/04/13/va-put-veterans-lives-risk-not-running-background-checks/
I think sometimes I gripe too much here about the way my husband died ( due to VA health care).
Then I read something like this and feel I don’t gripe here enough-
This article is old news- ( published May 2016)I just don’t have time this minute to find the latest tally on VA malpractice:
In Part:
“The number of legal settlements made by the Department of Veterans Affairs has more than tripled over the past five years largely due to a spike in medical malpractice cases and bungled construction projects, the Daily News has learned.
The yearly total payments skyrocketed to $338 million in 2015 from $98 million in 2011, according to Treasury Department data obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
The cases include multiple examples of blown diagnosis, botched procedures and substandard care, records show.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/legal-settlements-veterans-affairs-triple-article-1.2654179
A more recent case is here:
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/04/09/500000-settlement-veterans-affairs-allergic-reaction-medication/
and here:
http://www.wric.com/news/8-investigates/veteran-settles-medical-malpractice-lawsuit-with-mcguire-va-medical-center_201803200219097/1059820257
Settlement $750,000 due to stroke during VA surgery-
We had a new member here recently with a very similar event and I gave him a lot of info but he has not returned.... yet
but maybe he didn't like my advice-to get an IMO/IME.
What these malpractice figures do not account for is the amount of SC comp or DIC the VA pays out for malpractice.
1151 “as if SC” compensation is added to the total of all compensation in VA reports to Congress.
I helped a friend get 100% 1151 comp and he has had that for 20 years….a tidy sum.
I guess my point here is that many vets who feel their medical care is inappropriate, simply do not take the steps to find out whether it is or not.
It takes getting an independent medical opinion, and if any malpractice occurred and is found to have caused significant other disabilities ( or death), there are plenty of lawyers on the internet who handle these types of cases filed against the VA.
Veterans who have gone to the Federal District Courts either after a FTCA denial or after a refusal of the VA’s offer, have gotten more and even the VA itself has made very large payments:
http://attorneyjonpowell.com/taking-on-the-va-a-1-million-settlement-against-all-odds/:
Maybe the new Secretary will look into this issue. I have asked 3 Secretarys so far to do something about it, and the H VAC.
The doctors who killed my husband were removed from one VAMC and sent to another. In the last VA death incident I know of locally, one doctor simply quit.
If this doctor was charged under the NPDB mandate, for any settement with the survivors, there will be a public record of that and it will show up on a background check if they try to get another job as a physucian.
However, part of my gripes to Congress included the fact that OGC does not aways honor the NPDB mandate ( in my FTCA case and other cases they didnt), so those doctors
go on to practice on other VA patients and there is no way a background check would even reveal they committed malpractice during their VA employment.
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