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Does not appear this person was FIRED???????????????????

Should be in or under a prison.

1 posted on 10/17/2017 7:05:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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2 posted on 10/17/2017 7:09:21 PM PDT by posterchild ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - R. Feynman)
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What game was she playing?


3 posted on 10/17/2017 7:17:28 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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Was this patient on telemetry? Did he have an ICD or external ACD vest? If not why was this patient not in the ICU if he was so critical?


4 posted on 10/17/2017 7:21:42 PM PDT by LukeL
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“Does not appear this person was FIRED??????????????????? “

Suspended and in the process of being permanently ‘removed’.


7 posted on 10/17/2017 7:33:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z)
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We are paying more attention to the welfare of illegals than we are our heroic vets. It just makes me furious.


8 posted on 10/17/2017 7:53:55 PM PDT by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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She’s a govt employee. Firing civil servants is a lengthy battle

Wondering why he wasn’t on a heart monitor if his heart was that dicey.


10 posted on 10/17/2017 8:13:53 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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The case sounds very similar to what happened to my brother.

Don’t get me wrong. He was very sick, also with diabetes. He had lost an eye to the disease and had bypass surgery.

My brother died July last year.

He was in the VA hospital for about a month, but seemingly getting better, and the last week he was there, he was very upbeat about getting released to go to a nursing center close to his home.

I had been going to visit him at the hospital every other day, and my sister went almost every day. There was a doctor there who told us that there was really nothing they could do for my brother, because his lungs looked very cloudy and he had developed an early case of stomach cancer. However, my brother was still very alert and hopeful of getting released.

The last day I saw him, I didn’t think that he was doing so badly, and I went home and so did my sister.

At about 12:15 AM the next day, I got a call while asleep in bed. It was a doctor telling me that he had been trying to contact my sister, who was the first contact on my brother’s next of kin list. She hadn’t answered her phone, so the doctor called me. He mumbled something about how they had tried and could not do anything. So, I interrupted the doctor and asked him “what the heck was he trying to tell me”. It’s then that he told me that my brother had passed. I said, “how could that be, since he was looking alert and hopeful of being released”. Doctor said that he had a blood clot that had apparently traveled from his leg and to his brain, which caused his death. Needless to say, I got up immediately and picked up my sister at her home and got to the hospital in about 1/2 hour.

What bothers me the most is that, the whole doctors’ staff was composed of interns, all from the local university in Tampa. (I guess from that you can make out which VA hospital my brother died at).

My sister (and my other sister from Orlando) suspected that, there was dereliction of duty, since those “doctors” apparently didn’t want to answer the calls from the patients, and the nurses seemed to have the same attitude.

I go to the VA for my care too, but, with a very suspicious mind. The doctor assigned for my primary care is retired from his practice. To me, he doesn’t need his “job”. My last visit to him he told me that at my age, it’s not advisable that I have a colonoscopy done, because after a certain age, people don’t react well to anesthesia and could even die. I went for a second opinion, to an outside doctor, and that doctor sent me for a consultation to specialist and that specialist scheduled me for a colonoscopy, which I had done 2 weeks later, with absolutely no problem at all.

The reason for my post, is to advise that every patient that uses the VA, be very careful, because, from what I saw, the doctors are there just to get through the internships and the primary doctors may not be looking out to give you the kind of care that can be had at a regular;outside doctor and/or regular/outside hospital.

I have two doctors now: the VA one, and the other that I’ve learned to trust more.


13 posted on 10/17/2017 8:17:13 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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Veterans always get the shaft. Given how much we sacrificed

while serving, proper medical care later in life is a small

price for America to pay.


14 posted on 10/17/2017 8:25:52 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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I think fired is about as good as this scenario gets. If you want to waste a crap ton of time, pursue a civil claim.


21 posted on 10/17/2017 9:37:18 PM PDT by moehoward
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