how come veterens must go to a veteren hospital when others get care from the civilian doctors and we can not?
958029
A veteran does not have to go to a Veterans Hospital. It is an option available. If a veteran wants to have the coverage cared for, for an injury or condition that occurred while in the military, or if they reached retirement status, then they can go to a veterans hospital.
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A corpsman is the Navy version of an Army medic.  S/he is trained as a nurse (don't know what level, but pretty high cause they can give shots and not all nurses can do that) and EMT and a battle field life saver.  They go on convoys and are the first to treat a war wound.  In the rear, they are sick call, dealing with sickness and sprained ankles.  I'm sure on Navy bases, they treat Navy, but many are stationed on Marine bases to support us, since we have no medical field available in the Marines.  Some Navy docs are great.  Some not so great.  It's what you make of yourself.  But all in all, I don't know a single Marine that doesn't respect a Corpsman, even if we do tease you about joining the wrong branch of service.
898251
If you are a veteran, you can go to your local VA hospital or clinic and get one.
184858
If you have to undergo any procedure in a military hospital, your best bet is to have a civilian doctor there do the operation as opposed to a military doctor.
346021
Competitiveness for one.  And two,  The nurses are in a tight spot.  They have an obligation to the patients.  They also have to stay under the doctors and respect the rules and regulations of the hospital administration.  Even within hospitals there is political crap to get through.  With that in mind the nurse has to get through all that.  I would be grouchy too.
1178417
The above  answer is ridiculous. maybe they don't uh, have hospitals because they don't have a uh, country, or goverment, or land, or money, or freedoms that you and i both enjoy and take for granted?
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Is it a problem that doctors don’t pursue questions regarding diseases and treatments?\n\nYes, it is a big problem and it can lead to a misdiagnoses.  Doctors used to have the time to talk with and examine their patients.  With the institution of the HMO system doctors are budgeted to only 15-20 minutes.  The don’t even have time to check your vitals, a nurse does that before you see the doctor.  Now days the doctors have to work fast to make their quotas.\n\nHMOs have made health care cheaper, but nowhere cheap enough, and at a great cost.  Patients just don’t get enough time with their doctors to insure that they get adequate treatment, and by seeing so many patients in a day they start to blur together.\n\nI belong to the world’s largest HMO organization; the Veterans Administration, handling patients in all 50 states and world wide (care can be provided at any base with the proper facilities).  The US Military has to run its health care like an HMO as well.  It is the only way that they can provide care to all active duty members and their families for free (most of the time—some family members can be charged some fees).  Currently I am seeing 5 clinics in a major facility so I know about HMOs  I have also seen the rushed practices of HMOs percolate down into the private practice.  Doctors in private practice have to keep costs low and see a lot of patients so they can compete.\n\nAmericans are burdened with the “Puritan Ethic” a product of our ancestors who came over on the Mayflower.  Very few Americans are descended from those early colonists, but they have all been influenced by it.  This ethic says that adults must work hard all their lives, be proper religious folk, take only the minimum of time off, and yet somehow raise a family.  Getting sick is just not an option.\n\nMy parents were first generation immigrants; my grandparents all immigrated to America.  They lived in the North East where this ethic thrived and was expected of all immigrants.  My Grandfather died in his 40s, probably from a heart attack.  He never went to see a doctor so I will never know.  My father was a long time smoker and he probably died of lung complications induced by smoking.  Despite feeling weak, despite having to wheeze he didn’t want to go to the doctor.  So he died in his 70s.\n\nIllness was never an excuse in our family.  According to my mother, “If it isn’t broke and bleeding then there is nothing wrong.”  I came down with an ear infection so bad that I couldn’t sleep.  It turned out to be a double ear infection, but it took my mother several days before she was willing to take me to the doctor.  My dad had a good job with full health coverage so money wasn’t a problem.  She didn’t want to admit that I was sick and trying to “pull one over on her” by ditching school.  So it was no surprise that my father didn’t go to the doctor.\n\nWhen she gave birth to her last two children she was at work in the morning and in the hospital that afternoon.  A little thing like being pregnant didn’t keep her down, or put her into bed for long.\n\nCombine the Puritan Ethic with a short doctor visit and few patients get a proper visit.  They don’t want to admit they are sick and the doctor doesn’t have time to pry it out of them.  Often they will have waited until a major problem has grown to the point where it can’t be ignored.  They only go to the doctor when it is absolutely necessary.\n\nI have a disabling illness that prevents me from working.  But, in the early days I was accused of faking it.  Once even a doctor called my boss to tell him I was faking it.  A few years later my illness became a recognized illness and after a long struggle I have won disability from the Veterans Administration and from Social Security.  I need it because I simply cannot work.  I tried for years, I won’t go into the boring (and depressing details), but before I won my disability awards I was investigated thoroughly, I
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Where you in the military when you came back from Viet Nam?  If so, go to your closest VA Medical Center and they will take care of you.  If not, it's something you need to go to your doctor for, ASAP!
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well a pelvic exam for the most part is followed by a pap smear and the nurse needs to be there to assist the md. Also with all the frivolous lawsuits a doctor prefers a witness,Im a nures and I work in nursing homes and sometimes there are patients or patient`s family that will complain about evry little thing so then people refuse to go in there to provide cares by themselves without a witness. I think that for the same reason a doctor would like to have someone in exam rooms with them at all times. If you are uncomfortable then you should just say so,they also want to respect your wishes.
603088
I know lots of Doctors (IM a nurse), they have doctors to care for them...they arent allowed to prescribe meds for themselves, anyway, so would need another doctor.
118037
Unlikely. Every public ambulance service I have ever heard of will take you only to the closest public hospital (unless that one is full). And no matter where they take you, you are responsible for whatever fees are not covered by your insurance (which should generally cover you for an emergency trip to the hospital even if it wasn't the one they normally cover you for).
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I work in outbound assignments (where you get your orders) and we don't put anything on them about pets.\n\nThe military is not going to pay for your pets to be transported to an overseas location. Everything that goes on the orders - i.e TDY en-route, dependents - will be paid by the military.\n\nI would look up different sites about traveling overseas with pets and see what the requirements are. \nThey are going to need vaccinations, and they will need to be quarantined for a certain amount of time.
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If you are deciding to become a doctor work with the hospital, because your are more safe and scuqurie also your are not that vunerable to mil-pratice sues agains you cause you have your own group of lawyers on the board of medicen. If you decide to go into your own practice just becareful. yeah you can have your own time to go into the office you do not hav to work at all hours of the day just remeber this MIL-PRATICE SUES.
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By international law (the Geneva Convention), neither a physician nor a clergyman can assume command of a combat unit - they are official declared "Non-combatants" and may not direct combat activities, be engaged in combat activities or carry any combt weapon. In return, these individuals cannot be specifically targetted by the enemy. Now before everyone starts laughing, I will very quickly acknowledge that what is written in law and what happens on the ground are two very separate things, but legally that is the straight story.
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your job can be in jeopardy if you refuse to follow a reasonable instruction. it may depend on why you didn't go in. were you sick, did you not have childcare available, was there a sale at the mall you wanted to go to, were you just lazy? they would probably pay you overtime or give you an alternate day off. the patients are their primary concern. if they feel you are not a team player and that you don't care for the health and safety of the residents, they may decide they don't want you working there.
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No.  Not if what they are using the hospital for is required treatment.  Too many people will go to emergency rooms for things that aren't really an emergency because they figure they will get free treatment.\n\nA better way would be if there was free and equall health care for everyone.
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in military you are to do as you are told.. in civilian world you can raise your hand and ask or opose to the situation..\n\nThat's just as basic as it can be.. ;o)