More on Madigan reversing PTSD diagnosis As A Cost Cutting Measure

"The latest reviews were triggered by revelations that the forensic psychiatry unit at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state may have reversed diagnoses based on the expense of providing care and benefits to members of the military."

They say many of us are compensation seeking veterans, and yet they do this to save money? Who's seeking financial gains here, really?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/army-launches-review-of-ptsd-diagnoses-after-complaints-some-were-overturned/2012/05/16/gIQAN0YkUU_story.html

Anger = Energy E=MC2 and Post Traumatic Growth

For me PTSD = Anger and Anger = Energy so I tried thinking of it this way if E = MC² than if I could channel the energy from my anger into something positive, contribute something to society, well then it was easier to channel the anger and release it.

(Disclaimer: To my physicist's friends. Sorry for my loose use of E = MC²}

I used this energy to create HadIt.com and it did not happen overnight. It took practice, constant practice. I had an anger management problem and in God's great wisdom he gave me an opportunity to work on that everyday. I started thanking God every night for sending an ass of a person to me that day so I could work on my anger management. 

The 15 minute 1 issue visit at the VA Medical Center

My primary care doc is a PA, I'm not complaining about her. What I am complaining about today is policy. There is policy from what I understand from my PA, that appointments shouldn't go over about 15 minutes and you can only discuss 1 issue at a time. If you have another issue, you have to make another appointment.

I realize there aren't enough docs to take care of all the veterans, not my problem. I realize that they can't spend much time with you because of their caseload, again, not my problem.

What I find most frustrating is the 1 issue visit, where I sit in the waiting room trying to triage myself, so I can ask about what I think is the most important issue. 

I am blessed in that I don't have many physical problems. I worry about our brothers and sisters who have a lot going on with their health and I am wondering if this 1 issue visit is happening at more than my VA. 

Is there a shortage of doctors in the country? Or is there just a shortage of doctors in the VA? I am not a psychic, but even I could see at the beginning of the Afghanistan war that we were going to have a lot more veterans come into the system. Then the Iraq war and so I knew we would have even more. 

So why at the beginning of the war did they not start hiring more doctors and training them up? Why didn't they hire more raters so by the time the war was over they would have the experience and training they needed to handle the caseload, which is so backlogged, it makes the news at least once a week lately.

The VA motto "To Care For Him Who Shall Have Borne The Battle And For His Widow, And His Orphan" Abraham Lincoln

Those are powerful words, of course they lose some of the power if you add 1 issue and 15 minutes at a time.

Perhaps this 1 issue 15 minute visit is just my VA, it's damn frustrating for many of our brothers and sisters.

I get that many that work at the VA think it's a thankless job and it is a difficult job, I'm onboard with that. But hey we are veterans we know all about thankless difficult jobs. So thhere ladies and gents is my two-cents.