In 1971 Kirby Williams went to Vietnam as a U.S. Army draftee and worked as a finance clerk. In 2010 he went to a Veterans Affairs clinic in southern Illinois where a radiologist took a scan of his kidneys. Unfortunately, the…
The Department of Veterans Affairs has fired more than 500 employees since Jan. 20, when President Trump took office, according to a list of job categories of employees recently disciplined or fired. The list, released by the VA July 3…
A well-respected pain management doctor who blew the whistle on patient safety concerns at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility in Missouri — and was subsequently threatened twice by his superiors with termination — will have just hours more on…
The OIG conducted an inspection of the VAMC the week of January 11, 2016 on an anonymous complainant’s allegation regarding opioid management practices at the facility. At the time of the complaint, John J. Pershing provided long-term opioid therapy to…