Jen Miller
A West Virginia doctor admitted Monday that officials within the Department of Veterans of Affairs told her to delay treating patients for months in 2009. Two of those delayed patients have since resulted in suicides and are adding to the serious allegations plaguing the federal department.
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“I know there’s a lot of doctors who have experienced this frustration in the VA system,” Dr. Margaret Moxness told Fox & Friends.
The psychiatrist said higher-ups within the veterans department controlled administrative officials who oversaw scheduling patients.
Even though Moxness recalled telling patients to come back to the Huntington VA Medical Center in Charleston, W.V. for a check-up in 10 days, the front desk would not fit them in for a month, sometimes much longer.
Her new claims come during a national scandal enveloping the efficiency of the veterans department.
Moxness called the VA administrators “compassionless.”
“They don’t really experience what the doctors and nurses are experiencing, which is the suffering and the pain and the death,” she said in reference to her overseers.
Moxness was moved to write a book about the conditions surrounding suicide and begin making public appearances.
Her accusations join other whistle-blowers in Texas and Missouri, who have also alleged inadequate treatment surrounding this experiences with veterans affairs offices.
