Brickbat: The Best of Care

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The Department Of Veterans Affairs inspector general has launched at criminal investigation into the death of Bill Nutter at the Bedford, Massachusetts, V.A. Medical Center. The night Nutter died, Patricia Waible, the nurse's aide responsible for monitoring him, reportedly failed to check on him as she was supposed to. Instead, she spent her time playing video games.

Comments

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

All this for want of a second controller.

[Bra Ket]

Need more details before I can make judgement. Was it some stupid phone game or are we talking a really important raid?

[DajjaI]

At the risk of being banned again by Reason - what we really need is more wars, and more people to fight them, and more hospitals to take care of them when they come back home mangled, and more nurses to staff those hospitals, and more government agencies to prosecute the nurses when they play war on their computers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the secretary has "made clear that VA will hold employees accountable when the facts demonstrate that they have failed to live up to the high standards taxpayers expect from us."

So let's make sure those facts don't get out, be it via official reports, whistleblowers or nosy reporters.

[Citizen X - #6]

This guy gets it.

[Longtobefree]

So a good start at improving veteran's care would be to hire people smart enough to figure out that if you are on camera all night long, lying about what you did or didn't do won't work.
Or does that violate some federal diversity regulation?

[lap83]

At the risk of being banned again by Reason, maybe we should make video games illegal so that the video game companies stop instigating the wars, which produce more vets, or does a so-called Libertarian magazine really think that all of these endless wars are OK? /dajjal

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Heh heh...

[IceTrey]

So he didn't have a heart monitor or O2 sensor on that woud send an alert? Weird.

[Griffin3]

Everyone ignores those monitors, IceTrey. Even if you are the patient, and you have to consciously observe the monitor, and push a button to restart your heart when it stopped beating for more than3 seconds, you would be ignoring the monitor after the first night.