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complaints about VA doctors
Where can I find complaints about VA doctors. I had a bad experience with one and I'm sure he must have numerous complaints against him.
Well,
briz, you could start by posting your complaint right here.
I'm not sure of the legal aspects of actually identifying the doctor here.
You might want to let me get back to you on that part.
As for other ways to air the complaint, I have some numbers that I'm sure
can be posted here. We could contact the local media. I may have a contact or two in the media that could help. I've got a few contacts, but until I know where we are talking about I don't know if my contacts are in that area.
What do you think?
| briz Wrote: : |
| It happened at the East Orange,NJ hospital. I've had good experiences there and then I came across this doctor who performed a very poor procedure on me. I honestly don't know where he got his degree but he also misdiagnosed a hernia I had (twice). I was just curious as to other complaints against doctors in the VA. He must be listed somewhere but I don't know where, that's why I came here thinking maybe there is a site someone might know that lists these doctors and what experiences people have had with them. Thanks for your reply. |
I do not know of a web site that lists the good and bad docs, but if anybody reads this that does know of such a site we would sure appreciate a link.
One would think there'd be some sort of accountability within the VA Hospital system, other than when the public or media finds out about something and starts screaming for accountability.
I'll check and see what our medical officer in our post has to say about the issue. Might be a week or two.
Coud be somebody else will have some idea before then.
Sorry I can't be of more immediate help.
I gots complaints. I gots kudos.
VA is a large institution. I find that every hospital differs in quality. Also, once you've been burned by the system and start to grumble -- as with any HMO set-up, they blacklist and screw you. I've seen one of VA's finest hospitals do many good things for vets. Surely, they screw up, too. I'm not drunken in love with them. Many like them. Others don't. That one hospital has taken good care of my family and friends over the years. In fact, when any vet I know is seriously sick, I always shuffle them in through there. Just saved the life of an old Army & GS double retiree last month by getting him to VA rather than leaving him to a cow town hospital.
I've also seen VA kill my good friend and cover it up by cremating him immediately the moment his son started to blame the doc for issuing the wrong meds. My friend's story you can read on-line off my website under the case of "Gunney Chuck (USMC), My First Life Saved by Quackery." The link is in the Articles section. It's also buried way down below the Cayenne pepper pill bottle on the bottom left of the front page.
...He went in for minor surgery, but was on so many pills and the doc gave him probably a contraindicated dose or too much. Or, with his foggy mind and the way he used to pop pills, I guess it possible he maybe took one too many himself. The nurse found him dead clutching that pill bottle. Whoever dunnit, he shouldn't have been taking his own meds fresh out of surgery or having a pill bottle near him. The VA doc there certainly did move to cover his tracks, but my buddy did have his Advanced Directives listing cremation.
..Something many of you might want to reconsider. Whenever their social workers come around asking to modify your advanced directives, never give any doctor or medical system any kind of decision power over you. Leave it to family or a good friend.
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