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Indianapolis VA Hospital Under Fire for Email Making Fun of Veterans
ABC News ^ | 3/9/2015 | ABC NEWS via World News

Posted on 03/12/2015 9:51:34 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama

The Department of Veterans Affairs took another hit today as news surfaced that an email had been circulated to staffers at an Indianapolis VA hospital making fun of the mental health problems suffered by returning combat veterans.

The Dec. 18 message included several images of a toy Christmas elf, according to The Indianapolis Star, which obtained the email.

The email was sent by social worker Robin Paul to her staff within the Seamless Transition Integrated Care Clinic at the Roudebush VA Medical Center. In one photograph, the elf pleads for Xanax, which is prescribed to treat anxiety and panic. The caption reads: "Self-medicating for mental health issues." In another image, the elf hangs by a Christmas light with the message: "Caught in the act of suicidal behavior (trying to hang himself from an electrical cord)."

The news comes at a time when suicide among military veterans claims an estimated 22 lives a day, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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Absolutely disgusting! According to other articles from sources that are NOT allowed on FR this POS woman has NOT been fired!!!
1 posted on 03/12/2015 9:51:34 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Draft everyone under the age of 40. Refusal met with death.


2 posted on 03/12/2015 9:55:40 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.


3 posted on 03/12/2015 9:56:31 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Let me guess .Mz. Paul is a Affirmative Action hire.
4 posted on 03/12/2015 9:59:29 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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5 posted on 03/12/2015 10:03:20 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: 2nd amendment mama

So, is social worker Robin Paul now fired? I hope so.


6 posted on 03/12/2015 10:03:29 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Let the punishment fit the crime: this woman needs to be medicated with a mid range dosage of Xanax for a few months and then be cut off cold turkey. As she is rolling around on the ground hallucinating and having withdrawal seizures, if she lives through it someone can ask her if she still finds it funny.


7 posted on 03/12/2015 10:04:07 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Could this be the Obama administration’s Abu Ghraib scandal ?


8 posted on 03/12/2015 10:04:15 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: FreedomStar3028

FreedomStar wrote:
“Draft everyone under the age of 40. Refusal met with death.”

In the last draft, 36 WAS the oldest age to be drafted.

I add:
Let the DRILL INSTRUCTORS (who were not designed to be any sort of a queer ‘life coach’) be who they once were, because we have too many WUSSIES in this country, and also, yes, give them a sidearm, to, uh, “prevent any training accidents” from occuring, as might with the ‘urban element’, once drafted.


9 posted on 03/12/2015 10:04:53 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: SandRat

ON LEAVE...BUT LIKE ALWAYS...EXPOSURE IS GOOD


10 posted on 03/12/2015 10:05:55 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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social worker Robin Paul

Will the moron be fired? Fat chance . . . This administration hates anyone in the military. Disgusting.

11 posted on 03/12/2015 10:06:43 AM PDT by laweeks
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I worked for 20+ years in a big city ER.Although many "civilians" wouldn't know this emergency rooms...particularly those in big cities...have regular customers.They're mainly members of society's lower classes who see ERs as being just 24 hour clinics...no appointment needed.

We routinely made fun of some of these people,perhaps wrongly.

But making fun of military veterans is absolutely disgusting...nauseating.

12 posted on 03/12/2015 10:14:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Even Lower Morals)
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To: Doogle

Well...I was half right.


13 posted on 03/12/2015 10:15:33 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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Okay lets make fun of Miss Paul...because she is fat and ugly with a horrendous hair cut.
14 posted on 03/12/2015 10:17:52 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong....

Only Veterans and active service memebers can vote!


15 posted on 03/12/2015 10:19:26 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

GOMERs (Get Out of My ER)


16 posted on 03/12/2015 10:25:33 AM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Why am I not surprised that this woman, and I use the term loosely, has not been fired????? Don’t you know, the Military and Christians are fare game for anything. Sick just sick.


17 posted on 03/12/2015 10:29:11 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: mountainlion

Are you inferring that I’m part of the problem? In what way?


18 posted on 03/12/2015 10:29:40 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: SandRat

Not that I’m aware of from other articles I’ve read!


19 posted on 03/12/2015 10:30:30 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

The worst thing that I can think of to say about her....

I BET SHE VOTES STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT!

You can’t get much lower than that!


20 posted on 03/12/2015 10:35:28 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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