{"id":53010,"date":"2014-07-03T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53010"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:58:52","slug":"vet-dies-at-va-hospital-waiting-for-an-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53010","title":{"rendered":"Vet dies at VA hospital waiting for an ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News<\/a> reports that at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque a veteran collapsed in the cafeteria and died while he waited a half-hour for an ambulance to take him the five-hundred yards to the Emergency Room;<\/p>\n

Kirtland Air Force Medical Group personnel performed CPR until the ambulance arrived, VA spokeswoman Sonja Brown said.<\/p>\n

Staff followed policy in calling 911 when the man collapsed on Monday, she said. “Our policy is under expedited review,” Brown said.<\/p>\n

That policy is a local one, she said.<\/p>\n

The man’s name hasn’t been released.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All it would have taken is one hero to whisper “fuck this” under his breath and pushed the dude a few hundred yards. Could they have saved him? I don’t know, but you’d think that someone would have tried instead of hiding behind a policy. If they had tried to get him to the emergency room, we probably wouldn’t have heard this story.<\/p>\n

Marc Landy, a political science professor at Boston College, said the Department of Veterans Affairs is a large bureaucracy with various local policies like the one under review in Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

Although the agency needs to undergo reform, Landy said it’s unfair to attack the VA too harshly on the recent Albuquerque death because it appears to be so unusual.<\/p>\n

“I think we have to be careful,” he said. “Let’s not beat up too much on the VA while they are already facing criticism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s reason to not beat up on them – because they’re pretty well beat up already. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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