Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Disabled Marine Veteran "canceled appointment" 4 days after he died?

UPDATE
VA inspector general finds no evidence of falsified record in Marine's death
Star Tribune
Article by: MARK BRUNSWICK
Updated: October 10, 2014
In its letter to the congressional delegation, the inspector general said an e-mail shows that Buisman used his cellphone to call the VA’s automated appointment center to cancel an appointment on Nov. 26 at 11:17 a.m., and that he died later that day.

The notification generated by his telephone call was subsequently transmitted to a VA schedulers’ e-mail group on the following day, Nov. 27, at 6:01 a.m.

At 10:11 a.m. that day, the scheduler who ultimately canceled Buisman’s appointment transmitted a response to the schedulers’ group that she would take care of the request. The scheduler was on leave on Nov. 28. On Nov. 30, she entered a note in the system that she had canceled the patient’s appointment as requested and tentatively scheduled him for the next available appointment, which was Jan. 17, 2013.
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Minn. VA paperwork shows Marine rescheduled appointment — from the grave
The Washington Times
By Douglas Ernst
September 23, 2014

The family of a deceased Marine is looking for answers after records from the Department of Veterans Affairs showed that he rescheduled an appointment after his death.

Cpl. Jordan Buisman, a former Marine videographer, was medically discharged after developing epilepsy. In June 2012 he saw a neurologist at a Minnesota VA, who instructed him to seek an appointment if there were any changes in his condition. After Cpl. Buisman had a seizure in September, he scheduled an appointment with the VA on Oct. 12, and was confirmed for an appointment Dec. 20, a local NBC affiliate reported.
Cpl. Buisman died Nov. 26, 2012, with “seizure disorder” listed as the cause on his death certificate. On Nov. 30, four days after his death, someone wrote in the Marine’s VA records that he canceled his appointment and rescheduled it for Jan. 17, NBC reported.
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