{"id":58667,"date":"2015-03-10T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58667"},"modified":"2015-03-10T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:01:47","slug":"robin-paul-vet-suicide-is-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58667","title":{"rendered":"Robin Paul; vet suicide is hilarious (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robin Paul is a licensed social worker at the Roudebush Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis. She manages the hospital’s Seamless Transition Integrated Care Clinic which helps returning veterans with transition assistance, including mental health and readjustment services. According to Military.com<\/a>, this is how she helps with that transition;<\/p>\n

The email obtained by The Indianapolis Star contains photographs of a toy Christmas elf posing as a patient in what appears to be the hospital’s transitional clinic for returning veterans. In one photograph, the elf pleads for Xanax. In another, he hangs himself with an electrical cord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ha-ha-ha! That’s so funny. Of course, it’s not funny in the least and I don’t know why a social worker who works with veterans would think that it is funny – funny enough to email around the office to her workmates. From the IndyStar<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Julie Webb, a Roudebush spokeswoman, said administrators were made aware of the email “a couple of months ago.”<\/p>\n

“The email is totally inappropriate and does not convey our commitment to veterans,” she said. “We apologize to our veterans and take suicide and mental health treatment seriously, striving to provide the highest quality.”<\/p>\n

Webb said the issue was “administratively addressed.” She declined to provide specifics, citing employee confidentiality.<\/p>\n

Paul remains employed at the hospital and continues to manage the clinic, earning an annual salary of $79,916. She received a $2,000 performance bonus in 2013, records show. More recent bonus information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n

The Dec. 18 email was sent to the “IND STICC Team” with the subject, “Naughty Elf in the STICC clinic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I don’t think that she should be fired, but, again this is indicative of a climate among folks who are employed at the VA to mock the people that they’re supposed to be helping. <\/p>\n

As I’ve said in the past, the doctors and nurses at the VA are among the best in the world, my VA doctor is the sweetest, most helpful woman on the planet, but these administrative drones need an attitude adjustment. A big hammer kind of adjustment. There is a culture at the VA that needs to be dismantled – a culture of excuses. The bureaucracy at the VA has a thousand excuses why they can’t help veterans and not one excuse to maneuver around the system to help them. This incident is proof that this culture exists. <\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> It looks like Ms. Paul is out on the street;<\/p>\n

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Manager at Indianapolis VA removed over what Indy VA Director calls totally unacceptable email.<\/p>\n

— WTHR.com (@WTHRcom) March 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n