Jay Trucks and Associates Legal Blog

Patients treated at military or veterans hospitals and medical facilities have the right to the same high standard of care as any American at a civilian hospital or medical facility in this country. When military personnel and veterans' rights are not respected, the government can be held financially liable for any resulting injury or damage. In recent years, veterans' groups have raised concerns that there is a higher incidence of medical malpractice and a lower standard of care in VA hospitals and medical centers.

Recently, veterans' groups and others are raising concerns about the conditions in Veteran Administration hospitals and whether veterans are receiving substandard care. Official VA inspections at several different U.S. facilities have revealed unhealthy and dangerous conditions such as inadequate cleaning, vermin infestations and re-used medical devices/objects.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been inundated with reports of deplorable medical conditions at facilities such as Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the VA Hospital in Seattle, Washington. Recent disclosures that veterans are not getting adequate care at these facilities has outraged Capitol Hill and shocked the public. In response to this outrage, three high-level Pentagon officials have stepped down.

VA hospital inspections have found, also, that staff members are not adequately supervised and are falsifying reports regarding maintenance of medical equipment. Inspectors at one VA hospital had difficulty locating supervising physicians who were supposed to be present to oversee residents. In Kentucky, supervising physicians were found to have given out their computer passwords to resident physicians so the residents could cosign their own reports with no supervision.

Military medical malpractice law is a highly specialized area and very difficult for the layperson to understand. For this reason, if you would like to learn more about this complicated law specialty, seek counsel from an experienced military medical malpractice attorney in your area.

If your loved one is a vet who has been treated poorly, or if you have been the victim of medical malpractice in Michigan, please contact the experienced medical malpractice attorneys at Jay Trucks & Associates, P.C. today.