{"id":62513,"date":"2015-10-28T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62513"},"modified":"2015-10-28T09:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:39:59","slug":"vet-sues-phoenix-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62513","title":{"rendered":"Vet sues Phoenix VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tucson News Now<\/a> reports that Army veteran Steven Cooper has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the Veterans’ Affairs Department because they didn’t diagnose his prostate cancer in a timely manner. By the time it was discovered, he was in stage 4;<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old Valley veteran is convinced that his illness would not have become a death sentence, if only he had received basic medical care from Phoenix VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Cooper’s attorney Gregory Patton filed the $50 million lawsuit against the VA for medical negligence, claiming that Cooper tried for more than a year to get an appointment at the hospital, and when he was finally examined, a nurse practitioner disregarded an abnormality in his prostate.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit states that the nurse practitioner, “Did not order any further testing… refer Mr. Cooper to a urologist or schedule follow-up appointments.”<\/p>\n

“She tells him that he’s fine and that there isn’t any required testing and isn’t anything to worry about,” said Patton. “He believes her – he trusts her – and unfortunately that cost him his life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I sympathize with Mr. Cooper, if lawsuits are supposed to punish the defendants and to teach them to stop their bad behavior, I don’t think any number of lawsuits can change the culture at the VA. I think if there was an abnormality on any of my scans on my internal workings, I’d be riding herd on a number of medical professionals to find out what it meant. But, that’s me. I’m not sure how a $50 million lawsuit will help anyone except his girlfriend when Mr Cooper passes.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Eggs for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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