{"id":76311,"date":"2017-12-04T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76311"},"modified":"2017-12-04T08:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:27:36","slug":"va-hires-doctors-with-malpractice-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76311","title":{"rendered":"VA hires doctors with malpractice claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/12\/03\/usa-today-investigation-va-knowingly-hires-doctors-past-malpractice-claims-discipline-poor-care\/909170001\/\">USAToday<\/a> tells the story of neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider who lost his license to practice in Wyoming due to a number of malpractice claims which resulted in a number of maimed, paralyzed and dead patients. He also had a license in Montana, so when he applied for a job at the VA, even though he was forthright in the application about his loss of a license in Wyoming, the VA still hired him. USAToday says that&#8217;s not an isolated case;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A VA hospital in Oklahoma knowingly hired a psychiatrist previously sanctioned for sexual misconduct who went on to sleep with a VA patient, according to internal documents. A Louisiana VA clinic hired a psychologist with felony convictions. The VA ended up firing him after they determined he was a \u201cdirect threat to others\u201d and the VA\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of USA TODAY\u2019s investigation of Schneider, VA officials determined his hiring \u2014 and potentially that of an unknown number of other doctors \u2014 was illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the VA began action to fire Schneider last week, he resigned. I hope any others will follow his example.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve never had a problem with doctors or nursing staff at the VA. My problem has always been with administration staff. But, that&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday tells the story of neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider who lost his license to practice in Wyoming due to a number of malpractice claims which resulted in a number of maimed, paralyzed and dead patients. He also had a license in Montana, so when he applied for a job at the VA, even though he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Veterans-Affairs2.jpg?fit=259%2C195&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jQP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}