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CNN has reported that at least 40 American veterans at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system have died because they did not receive timely medical care.\u00a0 The report exposes\u00a0the duplicitous practice of maintaining a “secret” list of patients with actual wait times, and an “official” wait list used to make it appear that all veterans are receiving treatment within 14 to 30 days.\u00a0 In reality, about 1,400 to 1,600\u00a0veterans have been waiting months for treatment.\u00a0 According to a physician interviewed by CNN and emails obtained by the news agency, staff at\u00a0Phoenix Veterans Affairs\u00a0were aware that the practice is unethical.\u00a0\u00a0 The physician interviewed described them as “frustrated” and “upset,” but afraid to “speak out or say anything”\u00a0 because they know they will be fired if they do. [CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN has reported that at least 40 American veterans at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system have died because they did not receive timely medical care.\u00a0 The report exposes\u00a0the duplicitous practice of maintaining a “secret” list of patients with actual wait times, and an “official” wait list used to make it appear that all … Continue reading “American veterans dying while on secret wait list: a question of integrity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-news","category-usa"],"yoast_head":"\r\nAmerican veterans dying while on secret wait list: a question of integrity - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4913\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American veterans dying while on secret wait list: a question of integrity - 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