Wisconsin VA accused of over prescribing pills.
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“They call the hospital’s chief of staff, psychiatrist David Houlihan, the “Candy Man.”, a “psychiatrist” it figures.
I notice they did not give a street address for this hospital...
Sounds like Obamacare has invaded the VA.
In this case, I do not think it is "the system". I think it is more than likely a single irresponsible, uncaring, hospital chief of staff.
Who can take a sunrise
Sprinkle it with dew
Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two
The Candy Man
The Candy Man can
The Candy Man can ‘cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
Who can take a rainbow
Wrap it in a sigh
Soak it in the sun and make strawberry-lemon pie
The Candy Man
The Candy Man can
The Candy Man can ‘cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
Who can take tomorrow
Dip it in a dream
Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream
The Candy Man
The Candy Man can
The Candy Man can ‘cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
And the world tastes good ‘cause the Candy Man thinks it should...
Do you have a correlation of that data to the number of patients at that VA Hospital?
and??
This is easy to believe-MrT5, who was retired Army worked at the VA as a benefits counselor until his untimely death-which had nothing to do with the VA-he came home with stories of zombified vets all the time. He said some of them came to his office carrying plastic grocery bags with as many as a dozen bottles of prescribed drugs, and that painkillers and psychotropic meds dominated.
He sent most of them to see the chief pharmacist, because the MD’s had not explained any of the interactions or side effects of those drugs to them, and he had to walk some of them over there because they were so zoned they didn’t know whether they were afoot or on horseback. The powers that be just wanted them to shut up and either die or go away, I guess-nice way to treat our vets, ass****s...
Look - money was needed to keep terrorists at GITMO in the best of health ... That matters because when they’re all released they need to be strong enough to kill Americans.
What other reason could there be?
Dispicable? Yes. Let me tell a story form my persective.
I am a medically discharged Veteran. Hurt my back. The VA prescribed me oxy and another muscle relaxer. I took 1 pill1 day and said forget it!
Next appointment I had I said get rid of that prescription, I won’t take it. I will deal with the pain rather than become a drooling moron.
I understand that many people have it worse than me. We all have choices. You do not need to take the prescription, you do not need to fill it, you have choices, there are other remedies.