VA Raises Quality Scores! (By Denying Care to Veterans)

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🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Is Roseburg VA cherry-picking to game quality scores while endangering our veterans and ignoring physician recommendations? NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/us/at-veterans-hospital-in-oregon-a-push-for-better-ratings-puts-patients-at-risk-doctors-say.html Letter from ER docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335659-ER-Docs-Letter.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:01.6	Skim the patient, yeah.
0:07.6	You know what, John, my life.
0:16.3	Are we live?
0:17.3	Yes.
0:18.3	We're live?
0:19.3	Don't worry, we curse on the regular people.
0:21.0	Guys, actually all joking aside, welcome to Ens Incident Report.
0:24.9	This actually a pretty important episode.
0:26.6	So we'll want you, first of all, to cover your kids ears because we like to curse.
0:29.9	Because we're pissed.
0:31.6	But second of all, we want you to hit share, we want you to hit follow, we want you to
0:34.2	share this with your friends because it's important because the care...
0:37.0	Hey, we got, we got sound this time, they're sound.
0:39.7	We got sound.
0:40.7	Um, they're sound.
0:42.7	I'm going to pull up your comments.
0:44.0	We're talking about the care of our veterans and patients around the country and hospitals
0:49.3	everywhere in the U.S.
0:50.9	And how our obsession with the measurement industrial complex, so measuring outcomes, quality
0:56.7	measures, etc.
0:57.9	All well intentioned is leading to these horribly, uh, let's just say perverse motivations
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