Re: Well, well. The UNITED NATIONS says Saddam shipped WMD out of Iraq

From: Bam (scimedmonitor_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:58:25 -0800

Perhaps my experiences with the VA are different..... our VA is a D&A
facility, but I've also taken friends there for acute care and not had an
issue.

"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2j9g53Fupsa9U1@uni-berlin.de...
>
> "Bam" <scimedmonitor@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2j9d19Fu7ot2U1@uni-berlin.de...
> >
> > >
> > > VA seems to be going back to the old times where it was
> primarily a
> > treatment > center and winter home for the alcoholics and drug
> abusers, with
> > very little decent care for the sick patient.
> >
> >
> > Alcoholics and drug addicts aren't sick???
> >
> They are, but the care for them shouldn't be provided at the expense
> of other sick or disabled vets, now, should it? It's the difference
> between chronic illness and acute illness, and the latter doesn't
> always get the level of treatment one would expect.
>
> As a service-connected disabled vet, I've been getting my care at
> the VA for decades now, and it wasn't until my last two visits that
> I saw the same doctor twice. They did lab work on my last visit, but
> I won't know the results until my next visit, which is scheduled
> (IIRC) for sometime in October. Meanwhile, my stomach continues to
> trouble me, I'm sometimes short of breath, I'm throwing PVC's all
> over the place, and I'm _still_ waiting for a workup for a bunch of
> skin conditions that are most likely related to Agent Orange. It
> only took twelve years for me to get my disability rating and to get
> fitted for hearing aids, and another fifteen years before I got a
> set that actually work well. I can't imagine why we should be
> dissatisfied with the VA...
>
> I've long been convinced that the goal of the VA is to give the
> veterans as little as is absolutely necessary. Many of the folks
> who work there seem to think that the primary goal of the VA is to
> provide them with gainful employment, without their having to expend
> a lot of effort or energy on us.
>
> Eliyahu
>
>

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