{"product_id":"9781452042473","title":"Failure Masquerading as Success: The Veterans Healthcare System: A Microcosm of the Current Federal Government","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresident Lincoln in 1865 said:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis quote was later adapted as the VA’s motto.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   General Omar N Bradley’s VA Mission Statement “We are dealing with veterans, not procedures- with their problems, not ours” has been quoted repeatedly during the seventy five years since.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     In 1982 President Reagan approved $55.6 million in financial aid toMeharryMedicalCollege. An acute care facility was established atMurfreesboroVAfor training Meharry students.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Bob Stump [Rep, Arizona], the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, recently heard that, in some VA’s, incompetent managers are not fired on the spot, but instead, reassigned or transferred.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fix was the immediate removal of Konik as the failed director at theSalisburyVAand recycling him as our new director in the summer of 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e. On Tuesday April 14\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e, 1998, an E-Mail was disseminated with following quotation:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeak leadership at the York VA Medical Center has prompted changes in the hospital’s administration staff, with hospital Director Gene Konik reportedly asking for reassignment, VA officials said.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e   Mr. Dandridge began to initiate his long-term plan for “integrating”MurfreesboroandNashvilleVA.One of his famous quotations was: “Practice, practice makes perfect.”  Another of his public quotations was: “Having theNashvilleVAsurgical residents perform the surgery would provide ‘world-class’ surgery to the area veterans.”  ….\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e    \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e   In the last five years, York has seen four different directors.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGordon’s office has been bombarded with complaints from ailing veterans and their families about lack luster care. Those who’ve died as a result of the administrative and service changes can’t complain anymore.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCurrent York VA Director David Pennington has never spoken to the press about anything, but did send a memo to the medical staff warning them “to get online or get out!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur last crop of veterans is dying because of VA medical mismanagement, and our next batch is being loaded onto airplanes to fly back to an uncertain future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMr. Sullivan, a gulf War I vet and VA project manager stated:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis administration is so absolutely corrupt, incompetent and malevolent; it pales anything that came before it. Why is our economy tanking? The war, the war, the war.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155795460336,"sku":"9781452042473","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452042473_p0.jpg?v=1763838871","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452042473","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}