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Berta
As you know , I determined my husband had been malpracticed on by two VAMCs, after he suddenly died over 2 decades ago.
I immediately requested his medical records, even though we thought he was not entitled to see them because a VA nurse had chastized him for even looking in his Med rec file, one day while we had waited for hours for an appointment.She screamed at him ( a PTSD vet) and I feared he would really get angry- and she said he was not allowed to see his own records. But he didn't respond to her at all and gave her the file back. What dopes we were. I didnt think I could get his medical records, but I did.
I recently requested what appeared to be maybe only one page of a C & P Neuro exam he had in 1993.I thought maybe there was nothing more than what I had -2 pages of the Appointment.
I had two of the pages, but nothing else as to the results, whereby the Neuro doctor had decalred him 100% P & T due to a catatrophic stroke.
Yesterday I got 13 pages of the exam results.....? Some of the results are wrong- based on established medical evidence.
Also when NVLSP determined my EED, they had some sort of C & P exam result or entry , in October 1988, whereby a VA doctor had noted my husband's heart disease. They used that date as his EED. I do not remember him having this exam at all. Importantly ,it shows the VA failed again to properly diagnose and treat his AO IHD, and again months after the initial heart attack, they never told the veteran he even had a heart condition,but I felt my EED was 8-13-88, the first day VA had evidence of a heart attack my husband had that day , at the VAMC where he worked...the 8-13-88 EKG revealed it ,yet they never followed through on it and instead said he had a sinus infection that caused his on the job collapse. The NVLSP lawyer argued that I was "lucky' that this exam acknowledging the heart condition had be done. I said what do you mean Lucky- the VA killed him, and this entry is one more way they failed to tell the veteran of his heart cndition, and continued to fail to diagnose and treat- and could have began a CAD work up right away, as the8-13-88 ER Certificate called for. But I was satisfied with most of the Nehmer decision. They awarded two CUES i had and my current CUES are about another part of the decision.(and I believe the audit was completely wrong for the retro and sent them my figures on that)
My point is, my C file revealed probative evidence of malpractice, hidden from the OGC as well as a 6 page autopsy.When I realised the OGC did not have it, I sent it to them and they reversed their initial FTCA denial and settled with me.Another Peer Review supporting my charges, had 'disappeared' from the VA.I had to start all over agan without it at the OGC.
I found it at the bottom of my C file, almost 10 years later. The report that OLMA Office of Medical/legal VA told me had "never existed."
I used it for my AO IHD claim.
Not only might your C file surprise you, but you also might find that your copy of your VA medical records might be missing some information pertinent to your claim.
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broncovet
When I exited from service, I was given complete records..as complete as they have them, on paper. I can not emphasize enough to hold on to those. Dont depend on VA, the NPRC, etc. etc. to hold on t
Berta
As you know , I determined my husband had been malpracticed on by two VAMCs, after he suddenly died over 2 decades ago. I immediately requested his medical records, even though we thought he wa
GBArmy
Buck I can relate to a lot of what you said. It was a different time and certainly a different place. You had to be in REALLY bad shape to see a doc. A medic would give you aspirin or something like
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