In the news recently, the 51 bed psych ward has been closed by the VA due to 4 suicides...I guess we'll know more once the investigation completes as to why and what was happening at the facility...BD
The voices in Jack Edenburn's head began soon after he returned from Vietnam. They told him to end it all.
He ignored them for almost 40 years, until the day he stood at the railroad tracks near his Lancaster home, fantasizing about stepping in front of a train. That's the day he went to Dallas VA Medical Center. And some days, he says, he regrets that decision.
"Imagine hell," he said of his five days in the psychiatric unit, "then think worse.""I was more traumatized after five days in the VA than I was when I was admitted," said Mr. Edenburn, who works in the mail room of an insurance office. "And remember, I was suicidal when I went there."
The psy ward isn't the only nightmare in that place. The quackery is widespread in the Dallas VA hospital.
ReplyDeleteThe quacks are deliberately prescribing "blood pressure" meds they know will cause gross physical weakness, cause Patients to have auto accidents and experience falls that lead to quadriplegia, forgetfulness, psy problems, cramps, foot pain and knee weakness. Virtually all of the follow up care for those complaints are deliberately misdiagnosed as such things as "gout", the "aging process" or "arthritis" -- none of which is true. A lot of those patients on those meds end up in the Spinal Unit from auto accidents. Do the quacks stop those so-called bp meds?? Nope. Families/Patients who demand a change in the meds are given the same meds under a different name!
Stay away from the VA. THEY ARE DANGEROUS EVEN DEADLY QUACKS!!! Find a private Physician who doesn't kill or cripple patients.
And get a good lawyer. This crap has to stop.