VA patients hope for real answers on contamination at hospitals

If you are not a veteran, do you ever wonder how they don't get totally fed up with all they have to go thru after their service in the military is over? None of this is fair and it certainly isn't something any of us would ever want to put up with if we were them. The last few years, every time I hear a politician talk about how important our veterans are, I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach because of reports like this.

VA patients hope for real answers
Congress to address contamination at hospitals
By Clay Carey THE TENNESSEAN • and Bill Theobald TENNESSEAN WASHINGTON BUREAU • June 15, 2009
Walter McRae wants to hear the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tell him it is sorry.

He wants its highest-ranking officials to say they're doing something to make sure veterans who turn to the government for medical treatment aren't being exposed to dirty equipment, the way he may have been six years ago.

And he wants to know that those problems aren't going to make him sick someday.

McRae and other veterans may begin getting some answers Tuesday, when a congressional committee finds out what VA investigators have learned since the chilling discovery of problems with endoscopic exams at Murfreesboro's Alvin C. York Medical Center and other agency hospitals.
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VA patients hope for real answers