I worked at a VAMC several years ago. The place was dark - as in - when I drove up to the medical center every morning for work I could see a darkness hanging over the place. I would sit in my car for about twenty minutes praying before stepping foot on the property and walking in.

Along with my job of being a provider, I also made it my job to be a patient advocate for the vets. The system does not like boat rockers - it makes everyone else's incompetency and laziness show. It was hard to get things done for patients without making enemies. My days there were numbered and by the time I left, I had gotten a belly full. Most of the people that worked there as permanent employees could care less about the population they claimed to serve - the vets. The majority were simply cruising to retirement and did the minimal to make it appear on paper like they were actually doing something. It is a huge bureaucracy. The VA is very good at hiring per diem workers, like myself, to actually do the grunt work while the bureaucracy sit at a desk and come up with stupidity to justify their government paychecks. When the per diem employees have been there long enough to figure out the BS, the VA then purges these employees under the guise of cutting expenses. I managed to survive a couple of those purges during my stay. They had to do a bit more wrangling to remove me due to my position.

Seriously, your wife will be better off somewhere else putting her talents and experience to better use where she can be appreciated and not have to join the death cult to prove her allegiance.

I worked at a VAMC several years ago. The place was dark - as in - when I drove up to the place every morning for work I could see a darkness hanging over the place. I would sit in my car for about twenty minutes praying before stepping foot on the property and walking in.

Along with my job of being a provider, I also made it my job to be a patient advocate for the vets. The system does not like boat rockers - it makes everyone else's incompetency and laziness show. It was hard to get things done for patients without making enemies. My days there were numbered and by the time I left, I had gotten a belly full. Most of the people that worked there as permanent employees could care less about the population they claimed to serve - the vets. The majority were simply cruising to retirement and did the minimal to make it appear on paper like they were actually doing something. It is a huge bureaucracy. The VA is very good at hiring per diem workers, like myself, to actually do the grunt work while the bureaucracy sit at a desk and come up with stupidity to justify their government paychecks. When the per diem employees have been there long enough to figure out the BS, the VA then purges these employees under the guise of cutting expenses. I managed to survive a couple of those purges during my stay. They had to do a bit more wrangling to remove me due to my position.

Seriously, your wife will be better off somewhere else putting her talents and experience to better use where she can be appreciated and not have to join the death cult to prove her allegiance.

I worked at a VAMC several years ago. The place was dark - as in - when I drove up to the place every morning for work I could see a darkness hanging over the place. I would sit in my car for about twenty minutes praying before stepping foot on the property and walking in.

Along with my job of being a provider, I also made it my job to be a patient advocate for the vets. The system does not like boat rockers - it makes everyone else's incompetency and laziness show. It was hard to get things done for patients without making enemies and my days there were numbered. By the time I left, I had gotten a belly full. Most of the people that worked there as permanent employees could care less about the population they claimed to serve - the vets. The majority were simply cruising to retirement and did the minimal to make it appear on paper like they were actually doing something. And to think that those that sing the praises of socialized single payer health care hold up the VA system as their shining example. Sorry, I am not impressed.

Even though private health care has its problems, I have been a staunch opponent of public health care systems because I have worked both sides of health care delivery. Public care doesn't work well and those that endorse such a system are completely mislead as to what it can actually deliver. Yes, there are some good stories. But, in my personal experiences within public health, there were far more horror stories to offset the good. The vast majority of cases are far from what I would consider standard of care in the private setting. I literally watched patients suffer because of delays in treatment due to outright incompetence or politics. Some of these delays led to the premature deaths of patients.

Seriously, your wife will be better off somewhere else putting her talents and experience to better use where she can be appreciated and not have to join the death cult to prove her allegiance.