VA retaliation against whistleblower: doctor kept in empty room

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VA retaliation against whistleblower: doctor kept in empty room
Malia Zimmerman

By Malia Zimmerman, Will Carr Published March 30, 2017 FoxNews.com

Dr. Dale Klein may be the highest-paid U.S. government employee who literally does nothing while he’s on the clock. A highly rated pain management specialist at the Southeast Missouri John J. Pershing V.A., Klein is paid $250,000 a year to work with veterans, but instead of helping those who served their country, he sits in a small office and does nothing. All day. Every day.

“I sit in a chair and I look at the walls,” the doctor said of his typical workday. “It feels like solitary confinement.”

A double board certified physician and Yale University fellow, Klein said the Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) took away his patients and privileges almost a year ago after, he alleges, he blew the whistle on secret wait-lists and wait-time manipulation at the V.A. in Poplar Bluff, Mo., as well as his suspicion that some veterans were reselling their prescriptions on the black market.

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[Fishrrman]

Well, I could endure four walls and nothing to do all day for $250,000 a year, I think...

But seriously, this is what should be done with at least 80% of the workers at the EPA.

It will be cheaper for the country (in the long run) to simply pay them to do NOTHING all day, every day, than to let them continue to enforce regulations and policies that are slowly destroying the economy...