Whistleblowing within the VA SOFREP Original Content
By Luke Ryan 02.27.2018
Many are aware of the systemic issues throughout the VA healthcare systems. There have been numerous complaints and documented issues that, to the frustration of many veterans, don’t seem to garner much attention from the people actually in charge of these hospitals. The issues have ranged anywhere from difficulties in getting transplants to the literal theft of money allocated for hospital grounds (which was met with very little consequences for the perpetrators).
In order to address problems within a bureaucratic institution like this, “whistleblowers†need to feel comfortable coming forward — many honest people join the VA with the intent to simply help veterans, and to those ends they may be inclined to speak out against those who are not doing the right thing. This includes large issues like criminal neglect or theft, but it also includes smaller ones like the mistreatment of a patient or incompetency with administrative tasks (which don’t seem so small to those involved). The hard truth is that if these whistleblowers feel like coming forward is going to get them fired, and in turn nothing will really happen, then realistically they are not going to come forward very often.
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