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Uncle Sam's Shame Inside Our Broken Veterans Administration

Martin Kantor

Book Code: C34650

ISBN: 0-313-34650-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34650-7

DOI:

200 pages, n/a

Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth

Publication: 6/30/2008

List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Health/Medicine » Health/Medicine (General)

Reviews:

With breathtaking range, from the concerns of veteran health care sparked by coverage of Walter Reed Hospitcal to concerns about misuse and abuse of posttraumatic stress disorder diagnoses, Kantor, a medical doctor who worked for the VA from the 1960s through the 1990s, offers a detailed look at the troubled system.
—Booklist July 2008

Description: Kantor's objective in this book is to help Washington, the Veterans Administration (VA) staff, the vets themselves, and the general public understand the shortcomings of VA medicine today beyond what they read in the newspapers, so that all concerned can chip in to help improve the medical care that all the vets, and not just those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, are receiving. He reveals exactly how everyone--Washington, veterans, advocacy groups, the various members of the VA staff (including the doctors), the nonmedical and medical administration, the clerks and the rest of the ancillary staff, and the vets themselves--are all together responsible for the breakdown of the system, as he argues that all contribute a share to creating that endpoint: a severe state of havoc with the vets' medical care. Kantor goes on to describe some of the signature illnesses from which vets suffer, and in the process pinpoints exactly how the system specifically manages to mismanage these ailments, making already serious medical problems even worse. In addition, the author envisions a more ideal VA of the future, bringing forth specific improvements that will assure its implementation. The book concludes with a description of the more positive aspects of the system, offering a platform upon which meaningful reforms can be built.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter 1: An Overview of the VA Bureaucracy
Chapter 2: Psychological Reasons for Staff Mistreating Veterans
Chapter 3: Problematic Medical Care
Chapter 4: Problematic Nonmedical Administration
Chapter 5: Problematic Medical Administration
Chapter 6: Problematic Ancillary Staff
Chapter 7: Problematic Veterans Groups
Chapter 8: Problematic Oversight from Washington
Chapter 9: Difficult Patients
Chapter 10: The Potentially Violent VA Patient
Chapter 11: Problems with the Physical Structure
Chapter 12: Money and VA Medicine
Chapter 13: Toward Better Medical Care for Vets
Chapter 14: Self-help: How Vets Can Become Better Medical Consumers
Chapter 15: A Look to the Future/Recommendations
Chapter 16: On the Positive Side
Index

LC Card Number: 2008008790

LCC Class: UB369

Dewey Class: 362

PDF Catalogs:
PSI Public Library Spring 2008.pdf	Praeger Health and Wellness Spring 2008.pdf


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