{"id":51430,"date":"2014-06-17T11:47:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51430"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:47:16","slug":"whistleblower-retaliation-at-the-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51430","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower retaliation at the VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us a link to the New York Times which reports that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/16\/us\/va-punished-critics-on-staff-doctors-assert.html\">V.A. Punished Critics on Staff, Doctors Assert<\/a>&#8220;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The federal Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistle-blower complaints, is examining 37 claims of retaliation by V.A. employees in 19 states, and recently persuaded the V.A. to drop the disciplining of three staff members who had spoken out. Together with reports to other watchdog agencies and the Times interviews, the accounts by V.A. whistle-blowers cover several dozen hospitals, with complaints dating back seven years or longer.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[Dr. Jacqueline Brecht, a former urologist at the Alaska V.A. Healthcare System in Anchorage] complaints were corroborated by other Alaska personnel and were the subject of an email that Dr. Brecht sent to a military doctor at the time. Dr. Brecht wrote that administrators \u201cschedule fake patient appointments (i.e. commit FRAUD).\u201d They do so, she wrote, \u201cjust so our numbers look good to DC (and the administrators get their bonuses for these numbers).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cultural thing, something that won&#8217;t go away easily or with the firing of their Secretary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul sends us a link to the New York Times which reports that &#8220;V.A. Punished Critics &hellip; <a title=\"Whistleblower retaliation at the VA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whistleblower retaliation at the VA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}