VA Medical Care

[Boone66]

I will say the VA system is much better then it was since I got out in 94. I have been to Anchorage, Portland, Seattle, Denver and little clinics in between I am now in the Spokane district and use mostly a little private clinic in Libby, who sends us to civilian specialists. I'm pretty happy with the VA now.

 

[cwpayton]

regarding the VA ,this just out, KEVIN Friel , head of the VA testified before congress that the VA would not obey or abide by the veterans 2nd amendment restoration act, passed by congress. they want your guns.

 

[Ridge Runner]

regarding the VA ,this just out, KEVIN Friel , head of the VA testified before congress that the VA would not obey or abide by the veterans 2nd amendment restoration act, passed by congress. they want your guns.

Friel needs to be fired on the spot. In front of cameras. To send a strong message to V.A. administrators and other employees that veterans have rights, those rights and veterans will be respected and properly cared for!!

 

[SFRanger7GP]

I had a wonderful career. Ranger Bn, 82nd, SF. You don’t go on sick call in those units. Rub some dirt on it, wash down a couple 800mg Motrin and move out. In SF, you have medics that are somewhere between Marcus Welby MD and Dr House. And the access to meds to keep going just got great!! All med issues are handled at the team level. Hence, like most of my tribe, our med records have about 12 pages or so consisting mostly of shot records and physicals for schools.

When I retired, the VA doctor conducting my 5 minute physical told me “you don’t want more than 60% because nobody will hire you…”. 8 months later I am getting gutted like a fish and having a cancerous tumor the size of a grapefruit removed from my abdomen. (I made the American Journal of Medicine ). The surgeon gave me a statement that it was obviously present during my VA physical. VA? Not service related!

I never met a VSO worthy of cleaning an infantryman’s boots. Until I moved ro the Texoma area, the VA clinics and physicians I saw would be low grade care in and competence in a third world country.

The toughest fight in my military career was with the VA. Thanks to SF Brothers that guided me and civilian Dr’s that had sat on VA boards and volunteered for the VA, I finally found peace.

Good luck Brothers and keep up the fight!

 

[Ridge Runner]

I had a wonderful career. Ranger Bn, 82nd, SF. You don’t go on sick call in those units. Rub some dirt on it, wash down a couple 800mg Motrin and move out. In SF, you have medics that are somewhere between Marcus Welby MD and Dr House. And the access to meds to keep going just got great!! All med issues are handled at the team level. Hence, like most of my tribe, our med records have about 12 pages or so consisting mostly of shot records and physicals for schools.

When I retired, the VA doctor conducting my 5 minute physical told me “you don’t want more than 60% because nobody will hire you…”. 8 months later I am getting gutted like a fish and having a cancerous tumor the size of a grapefruit removed from my abdomen. (I made the American Journal of Medicine ). The surgeon gave me a statement that it was obviously present during my VA physical. VA? Not service related!

I never met a VSO worthy of cleaning an infantryman’s boots. Until I moved ro the Texoma area, the VA clinics and physicians I saw would be low grade care in and competence in a third world country.

The toughest fight in my military career was with the VA. Thanks to SF Brothers that guided me and civilian Dr’s that had sat on VA boards and volunteered for the VA, I finally found peace.

Good luck Brothers and keep up the fight!

And that is the problem for special ops vets. Trying to prove their medical history of being injured while in service.

Special ops personnel don’t stay in special ops if they spend time getting injuries recorded in their med records.