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	<title>Vet4Vet Journal &#187; Military Healthcare Problems</title>
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		<title>NRC fined VA for prostate cancer programs failures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission levied a $39,000 fine Monday against the Department of Veterans Affairs for violations of federal regulations of the use of radioactive materials at prostate cancer programs in VA hospitals across the country.
Click here to read more.
If you or a loved one have suffered injury due toÂ negligence byÂ government health care providers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service members have little recourse against malpractice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Military Healthcare Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feres Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Langley hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal precedent that prohibits lawsuits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before midnight on Feb. 20, 2007, she gave birth by cesarean section to a healthy boy.
But Wilson never got to hold her baby. According to her medical records, a uterine artery was cut during the delivery, causing massive internal bleeding. The estimated blood loss was equivalent to the total blood volume of an average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willing to die, but not this way</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/01/willing-to-die-but-not-this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Military Healthcare Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feres case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feres vs. United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military hopsitals immune from malpractice claims]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[naval hospital in Bremerton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Minutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sgt. Dean Witt, 25, was being moved to a recovery room at a Northern California military hospital when he gasped and stopped breathing.
A student nurse assisting an understaffed anesthesia team tried to resuscitate Witt and failed. Inexplicably, Witt’s gurney was wheeled into a pediatric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review uncovers 6 more cases of botched cancer treatments at VA in Philadelphia</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2009/12/review-uncovers-6-more-cases-of-botched-cancer-treatments-at-va-in-philadelphia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2009/12/review-uncovers-6-more-cases-of-botched-cancer-treatments-at-va-in-philadelphia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Military Healthcare Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA â Six more cases have been found of cancer patients being given incorrect radiation doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia.
 
The errors happened in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer. That brings the total to 98 veterans who were given incorrect radiation doses over a six-year period at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA hospital ignored vet&#8217;s stroke, report finds</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2009/12/va-hospital-ignored-vets-stroke-report-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2009/12/va-hospital-ignored-vets-stroke-report-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inspector general of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has found the Hampton VA Medical Center at fault after a doctor there failed to diagnose a Chesapeake veteran’s stroke, leaving him permanently disabled.
The investigation also found that the vet’s medical record contained lab results from another patient and that the medical center staff turned [...]]]></description>
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