{"id":52698,"date":"2014-06-30T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52698"},"modified":"2014-06-30T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:42:08","slug":"nyt-civilian-health-care-system-better-than-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52698","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Civilian health care system better than military"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the New York Times<\/a>, compared to the civilian health care system, in the military system (not the VA) “scrutiny is sporadic and avoidable errors are chronic”. <\/p>\n

The Times\u2019s examination, based on Pentagon studies, court records, analyses of thousands of pages of data, and interviews with current and former military health officials and workers, indicates that the military lags behind many civilian hospital systems in protecting patients from harm. The reasons, military doctors and nurses said, are rooted in a compartmentalized system of leadership, a culture of interservice secrecy and an overall failure to make patient safety a top priority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m just one guy, but I used the military health care system more often since I retired than did while I was on active duty and I haven’t seen any of this. I’ve had surgery at Walter Reed (both of them) and Fort Belvoir. <\/p>\n

I’ve also been treated at local civilian hospitals, and I trust military doctors more than I trust civilian doctors. You know when the doctor tells me that I had a “suspected heart event” and he wants to do an angiogram, I get suspicious. I think he wanted to do a wallet-ectomy.<\/p>\n

The doctors I’ve had who were in the Army are professional at the tops of their profession. They’ve always been straight with me and they’ve always had my health at the forefront of their treatment. <\/p>\n

Of course, your experience may be different. But, I’m just saying that my experience with the military health care system doesn’t look anything like what the NY Times tries to make it look. Did I mention that my wife used to work at (old) Walter Reed for six years (during the Iraq War)? Her only complaints were about the administrative staff and not the medical staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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