How Does the Practice of Medicine by the Veterans Administration Differ From Regular Medical Practice?

Question by dolphin314etc: How Does the Practice of Medicine by the Veterans Administration Differ from Regular Medical Practice?
What is Evidence-Based medicine?

Does the VA use an Expert System built in to their computer software to “decide” how to treat your illness?

Does this system contain the most widely used prescription drugs on a worldwide basis?

Does in contain, for example Lipitor? or Plavix? — the two most widely used prescription drugs in the world.

Does the VA have an alternative medicine system?

How do they get the “doctors” within the VA to adhere to the VA’s system?

Do they use pay and promotions as incentives for VA “doctors” to be compliant and obedient?

Do such “doctors” practice medicine in the true interests of their patients (or do they practice cheapness based medicine in the true interests of the VA’s bean counters, and in their own true interests?).

Is the US government authorized by the US Constitution to practice medicine at all in the first place? Or is that an authority and a power reserved to the states under the 10th Amendment?

Why don’t more states de-certify “doctors” who practice VA alternative medicine instead of mainstream medicine as practiced by the rest of the world’s doctors?

Do VA “doctors” enjoy immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act for malpractice done by them?

These may seem like desultory and trivial questions, but I assure you they are not. If Obamacare ever gets fully rolled out, it will look and act a lot like Veteran’s Adminsitration Medicine today (One Best Way — and it’s in the computer, and all “doctors” go along, or get out of the system).

Do you feel you have any stake at all in how Medicine will be practiced in the USA in coming years, or do you live in Singapore, or Australia, and it makes no difference to you what happens to us Yanks?

Best answer:

Answer by Linda L
I cannot answer all of your questions, however I must emphatically say my vietnam veteran husband was treated for colon cancer approximately 2 years ago at the VA Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA and we could have not been treated nicer, and by doctors who also practice medicine at Pittsburgh’s best hospitals. Two years later my husband is still cancer free.

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