Veterans Affairs officials want to change when veterans can view some of their medical records online, fearing that some could become violent if they see negative comments and think their disability claims will be denied.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
A group of department officials said Monday that they fear some veterans could see the notes from the exam, assume from this partial picture that their claim is being denied, and take out their anger on local VA officials. They voiced their safety concerns Monday to members of the department’s Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation at their meeting this week in Washington.<\/p>\n
“He walks past the [compensation-and-pension] clinic, and he’s very angry. Goes into the C-and-P clinic, and we have an incident of some kind,” said Gerald Cross, the chief officer in the Veterans Health Administration’s office of disability and medical assessment. “Some of our C-and-P clinics are quite small, \u2026 and it doesn’t have much in the way of reasonable defense. We’re very concerned about that.”<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
“I hate to say this, but what is the ethical justification of removing the C-and-P exams from the Blue Button?” asked Michael Simberkoff, executive chief of staff at the VA’s NY Harbor Healthcare System.<\/p>\n
But department officials tied the move to one factor: Potential risk to VA staffers. In addition to changing when a veteran can see part of his or her file online, they are also considering adding extra security to the clinics, such as requiring a code to unlock doors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, we’ve graduated from Oscar the Grouchy Vet to the Tasmanian Devil Vet.<\/p>\n
The reasonable solution, of course, would be to give veterans the amount of respect that we deserve instead of being treated like vicious animals. Maybe they could be more trustworthy to veterans. They could stop giving benefits to those phonies with wild-ass tales of derring-do and start serving the rest of us who are only trying to get enough to get by.<\/p>\n
Instead they bow to the corrupted popular culture and perpetuate the myth of the crazed vet.<\/p>\n
Thanks to SSG E for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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