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The Weekly Voice
Of Veterans & Dependents
Of All Wars Of
The United Staes
THE ONLY NATIONAL VETERANS' NEWSPAPER
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Have Borne The
For His Widow And His Orphan--
Abraham Lincoln
Our 101st Year
Number 48
WASHINGTON, DC, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1977
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Dawn of Infamy
Painted by New York artist Kipp Soldwedel [See Pg. 3].
Service-Connected Vets Not Given
Planned DemPse Of VA HospVtals Is The New
f" n ThosPnanty Treatment At nManyr/'Ais
[The Stars and Stripes has been the first to expose the
catastrophic decline in the Veterans Administration's Hospitals.
Weekly, since the first of the year, we have provided evidence of
over one-third part-time physicians, over one-third foreign medical
graduates who often have communication problems with patients,
physicians in their 70's and 80's, low percentage of Board Certified
doctors, non-doctors practicing medicine, high turn-over of young
physicians, abuses by Medical Schools, operations performed by
totally unsupervised residents-in-training, illegal and gestapo
tactics of VA Central office, forced transfer regulations allowing a
physician only two weeks to get out of town, and many others.
See DEMISE Pg. 5
How The Senate
Passed HR 8701
Now P195-202
MR. CRANSTON: Mr. President,
I ask the Chair to lay before the
Senate a message from the House
See CRANSTON Pg. 3
Many Veterans Administration
(VA) medical facilities are not
providing veterans with service-
connected disabilities the priority
in treatment to which they are
entitled by Federal law, according
to Oliver E. Meadows, National
Commander of the 550,000 member
Disabled American Veterans
(DAV).
The service-connected disabled
veteran's entitlement to priority
medical treatment was established
more than a year ago with passage
of the Veterans' Omnibus Health
Care Act of 1976. However, Mead-
ows stated that he doesn't "see
much evidence that it's working'".
"Priority for the service-connec-
ted disabled veteran just isn't
there in the waiting rooms," the
DAV National Commander char-
ged. "It's not there as patients are
admitted to the hospitals. It's not
there in the outpatient clinics,
where service-connected veterans
often wait hours--sometimes
longer--to see a doctor.
"In the attitudes of the staffs at
many of our VA hospitals and
See MEADOWS Pg. 5
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