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		<title>Reporting, Investigation, Disclosure, and Remedying of Medical Errors Leads to Similar or Lower Than Average Malpractice Claims Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/06/proactive-reporting-investigation-disclosure-and-remedying-of-medical-errors-leads-to-similar-or-lower-than-average-malpractice-claims-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[VA Healthcare Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Veterans Affairs Medical Center developed a comprehensive process designed to proactively identify and remedy medical errors. Key elements of the process include widely publicizing the disclosure policy and process throughout the hospital, prompt reporting and investigation of potential errors, full disclosure of investigation results to the patient and/or family, and apology and fair remedy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans get hooked, not healed, at VA hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/06/veterans-get-hooked-not-healed-at-va-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/06/veterans-get-hooked-not-healed-at-va-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VA Healthcare Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hampton VA Medical Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narcotics being resold in Hampton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veterans addicted to narcotics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two doctors who worked at the Hampton VA Medical Center say powerful narcotics are being over prescribed to veterans there, leaving them addicted while their underlying medical conditions go untreated.
The doctors have warned that the high volume of narcotics may be feeding a pipeline of dangerous drugs that are illegally resold in the community, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal battle continues over training death</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/06/legal-battle-continues-over-training-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/06/legal-battle-continues-over-training-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VA Reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
By David Porter – The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday May 30, 2010 16:27:56 EDT


GARFIELD, N.J.Â  – A federal judge found the Navy 80 percent negligent in the training death of Seaman Freddie Porter Jr. when it awarded $1.25 million to his mother, Cassita Massiah, last December.
As it stands, it won’t be the Navy paying Massiah. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man sues Hampton VA doctor over missed stroke symptoms</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/man-sues-hampton-va-doctor-over-missed-stroke-symptoms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/man-sues-hampton-va-doctor-over-missed-stroke-symptoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[VA Malpractice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[failure to diagnose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hampton VA Medical Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill Sizemore
The Virginian-Pilot
Â© May 18, 2010
HAMPTON
After the Hampton VA Medical Center denied responsibility, a Chesapeake veteran has sued the emergency-room doctor there who failed to diagnose a stroke that left him permanently disabled.
John Morgan, a Marine veteran, went to the Hampton center Nov. 23, 2008, complaining of slurred speech, unsteady gait and weakness on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. to pay $350,000 after suicide of Marine</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/u-s-to-pay-350000-after-suicide-of-marine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/u-s-to-pay-350000-after-suicide-of-marine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VA Malpractice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VA care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wrongful death and negligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By William H. McMichael – Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Jan 17, 2009 6:57:58 EST


The government has agreed to pay $350,000 to the family of a Marine combat veteran who committed suicide after what his family alleged was negligent mental-health care at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in Massachusetts.
Former Marine Reserve Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey hanged himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staff error caused hepatitis outbreak</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/staff-error-caused-hepatitis-outbreak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/staff-error-caused-hepatitis-outbreak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 17:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VA Reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MARY SHEDDEN
TAMPA – The area’s first known group outbreak of hepatitis C was isolated to mistakes made by an employee at a Brandon holistic medical clinic, public health officials say.
Up to eight patients at Wellness Works, 1209 Lakeside Drive, have tested positive for the blood-borne illness, which is most often transmitted by the improper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US inquiry finds problems at Prescott VA hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/us-inquiry-finds-problems-at-prescott-va-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/us-inquiry-finds-problems-at-prescott-va-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 20:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX – A federal agency that investigates whistle-blower complaints has closed its probe of the VA Medical Center in Prescott after concluding that medical errors had occurred and the facility had suffered from understaffing of nurses and housekeepers.
The Office of Special Counsel investigated problems in the hospital’s long-term care and hospice wards reported by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Limits Surgeries At Some Hospitals After Deaths</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/va-limits-surgeries-at-some-hospitals-after-deaths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/05/va-limits-surgeries-at-some-hospitals-after-deaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by David Schaper : May 6, 2010
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a new rating system for its hospitals that at some facilities will limit the types of surgeries doctors can perform.
The changes come after several patients died because of surgical mistakes at one Illinois VA hospital.
VA officials acknowledge that at least nine patients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office of Inspector General Report on Quality of Care Issues at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center, Report No. 09-02950-58</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/01/quality-of-care-issues-louis-a-johnson-va-medical-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/01/quality-of-care-issues-louis-a-johnson-va-medical-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General (214.4 KB) ]]></description>
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		<title>Service members have little recourse against malpractice</title>
		<link>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/01/service-members-have-little-recourse-against-malpractice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vet4vet.net/blog/2010/01/service-members-have-little-recourse-against-malpractice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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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