Marine's death, hospital's flaws (VA Hospital not trained Blast Injuries)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/03/State/Marine_s_death__hospi.shtml

Investigators say the death last year of a 21-year-old Marine at James A. Haley VA Medical Center might have been prevented if doctors had conducted more thorough tests.

Investigators also said that the VA and the Department of Defense should use the findings by the VA inspector general to better educate doctors on how to treat the type of "blast injury" that has become prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Speaking of troops injured in the war zone, investigators said they found no evidence that Haley's acute care staff, "including its specialty medical and surgical consultants, had been properly prepared for these patients."

Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Gadsden of Jamestown, S.C., was severely injured in Iraq last August by a roadside bomb. He was on the mend at Haley and was tentatively scheduled to be discharged, but he died unexpectedly of bacterial meningitis Oct. 22.

Excuse me - they say he faced a 70% mortality rate yet he was well enough to go to Wal-Mart and McDonalds on a day pass??????

[mbperrin]

1. Look at it in the only way the current administration can: MONEY

More training: costs money!
More tests: costs money!
More injured survivors drawing service-connected disability: costs money!

Less training,fewer tests, fewer survivors: Need one flag to hand to mom while looking stern: cheap, cheap, cheap!

Sorry, wish this was sarcastic in the least. I believe it's a plan.