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Zeris posted:this thread is a VA waiting room your moms anus is too!
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:your moms anus is too! 
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Feb 25, 2015 05:09
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:your moms anus is too! If you saw what she's been bringing home lately you'd get why this is some basic poo poo to say go deeper way deeper
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Feb 25, 2015 05:10
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the robocop remake is pretty ho-hum
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Feb 25, 2015 05:14
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can burning jet fuel melt robocop
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Feb 25, 2015 05:50
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Feb 25, 2015 06:04
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So, uhhhh, went to the Columbus, GA VA clinic today. Uhhhh, it's not so good. It makes the TMC at basic training look positively delightful. The only other VA centre I've been to before has been Madigan, and they had a dude playing a piano in the foyer. This had... an absence of large rodents is probably the most flattering description I can give.
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Feb 25, 2015 19:02
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what do you expect, it's georgia
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Feb 25, 2015 19:43
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Well, basic cleanliness? Really, I got the tricare so I was going in just for the sake of getting processed into the VA system, but holy gently caress people have to rely on that poo poo.
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Feb 25, 2015 19:53
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not caring here posted:Well, basic cleanliness? look at all the dirty rear end homeless looking vets that are in the VA next time you're there. i wouldn't care if the VA was sitting on a landfill if the fuckers would just operate more smoothly.
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Feb 25, 2015 20:51
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The Chicago VA hospital is the saddest place I've ever been. Utterly depressing.
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Feb 25, 2015 21:17
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holocaust bloopers posted:The FTFY
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Feb 25, 2015 21:52
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The one in Prescott Arizona is actually pretty nice
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Feb 25, 2015 21:53
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My clinic is very pleasant and clean 
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Feb 25, 2015 22:00
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The main Seattle VA hospital is pretty drat nice. The only problem is old fucks by the dozen sitting around with nothing wrong with them waiting to be called SGM again clogging up the waiting rooms. No poo poo it's a real problem with these old pricks. Lakewood was a legit good facility as well. It's why I was so shocked by the Columbus one. I was not expecting fountains and violinists serenading me with Stravisnki whilst I walked on rose petals, it's fuckin' Columbus after all, but good god drat it's loving terrible.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:25
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Yeah, Lakewood and Seattle are good. Washington seems to have a huge loving population of old loving vets. I rarely ever see anyone within our age group/war time frame whatever the gently caress. It's just nothing but WW2/Korea/Vietnam dudes. I think I missed the fact that the one you went to was in Columbus  I'm so sorry.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:50
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holocaust bloopers posted:The Chicago VA hospital is the saddest place I've ever been. Utterly depressing. Hines bums me the gently caress out.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:56
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drat, this thread makes me want to go work at the VA to try and change things around, but I know that I'd be stuck in a place where I probably couldn't make any waves, at least not yet in my career. I'd give you all hella sponge baths though.
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Feb 25, 2015 23:30
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Anything remotely related to the VA at just about every level is filled to the brim with incompetence and bogged down by legal mandates. I'm not one to say 'hurf, government regulations!!!1' but goddamn, the VA is the shining example of every big government stereotype. They're slow, they're incredibly inefficient and any attempt to change ANYTHING at ANY level is borderline impossible without congressional mandate. The next time I step foot in a VA facility (other than meetings for work) will be in a few years when they tell me my combat-related injuries are magically better until I prove otherwise.
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Feb 25, 2015 23:41
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Vasudus posted:Anything remotely related to the VA at just about every level is filled to the brim with incompetence and bogged down by legal mandates. I'm not one to say 'hurf, government regulations!!!1' but goddamn, the VA is the shining example of every big government stereotype. They're slow, they're incredibly inefficient and any attempt to change ANYTHING at ANY level is borderline impossible without congressional mandate. tell me why my prescription has to be picked up an hour and a half away instead of at the rite-aid where they usually send them seriously, this is stumping the poo poo out of me. this is rhetorical bc i know the answer
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Feb 25, 2015 23:42
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I can't wait for someone to just absolutely lose their poo poo and start lighting motherfuckers up at the hospital. Vets seem to go crazy and shoot up a bunch of places because "tinfoil radio waves" tell them to, and yet they don't go after the VA.  I kinda wonder if Chris Kyle's killer would have had an acceptable plea of insanity had he gone nuts on his local VAMC instead.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:21
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Master Bateman posted:You have a hosed up face or something? I must have a hosed up face too, because a waitress at a burger joint out in the country remembered my first name over a year after I went there for a meal like 3 times in a week. I should point her to the VA.
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Feb 26, 2015 00:53
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at the date posted:I must have a hosed up face too, because a waitress at a burger joint out in the country remembered my first name over a year after I went there for a meal like 3 times in a week. I should point her to the VA. it's ur fuckin robot voice dude
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Feb 26, 2015 01:20
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Vasudus posted:Anything remotely related to the VA at just about every level is filled to the brim with incompetence and bogged down by legal mandates. I'm not one to say 'hurf, government regulations!!!1' but goddamn, the VA is the shining example of every big government stereotype. They're slow, they're incredibly inefficient and any attempt to change ANYTHING at ANY level is borderline impossible without congressional mandate. What's your masters thesis on? I was thinking about switching my PhD emphasis from Fat nurse research to VA nursing, maybe seeing where improvements could be made within the VA system through nursing... Although I only knew one person who conducted research through the VA and I guess the amount of poo poo he had to put up with to conduct research within the VA was insane, granted he was focused on patients rather than staff.
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Feb 26, 2015 01:54
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MurderBot posted:What's your masters thesis on? I was thinking about switching my PhD emphasis from Fat nurse research to VA nursing, maybe seeing where improvements could be made within the VA system through nursing... Although I only knew one person who conducted research through the VA and I guess the amount of poo poo he had to put up with to conduct research within the VA was insane, granted he was focused on patients rather than staff. you know how the sergeant major is usually that guy who has spent the last 15-20 years getting brainwashed? i'm convinced the VA does the same thing to people. you go in with the best intentions and then bam, you're just another one of them.
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Feb 26, 2015 02:24
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MurderBot posted:What's your masters thesis on? I was thinking about switching my PhD emphasis from Fat nurse research to VA nursing, maybe seeing where improvements could be made within the VA system through nursing... Although I only knew one person who conducted research through the VA and I guess the amount of poo poo he had to put up with to conduct research within the VA was insane, granted he was focused on patients rather than staff. I did my thesis on veterans and higher education. I now work on the defense side of healthcare doing things completely unrelated to it. "improvements" to anything in the VA is obscenely more involved than your wildest imagination. One of the projects I'm working on long term is a joint DoD/VA thing and it's looking to be made into policy sometime in 2018. It will ultimately involve several hundred people before being made into a DoDI. The key thing is that unless the government solicits the assistance, they will keep trucking along forever. You can have all the will in the world to fix their problems but if there's not a contract, an action officer and some serious cash you can't get them to change the brand of pencils they use.
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Feb 26, 2015 03:01
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krispykremessuck posted:it's ur fuckin robot voice dude I have to exaggerate my facial expressions and hand gestures to convey that I'm joking to people who don't know me. Feel like a drat clown, but people always assume that I'm angry when I'm speaking normally. idgi, my voice sounds normal to me What I'm saying is check ur priv
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Feb 26, 2015 03:13
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free caro (to a good and kind home)
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Feb 26, 2015 04:26
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Fucitol posted:free caro  I went to Syria before it was cool.
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Feb 26, 2015 04:42
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At the VA urgent care because my tonsils are killing me. It's not very "urgent" and they've got Fox News on talking about llamas and poo poo. 
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Feb 26, 2015 22:02
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Now entering the third hour of waiting to get some antibiotics. 
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Feb 26, 2015 23:35
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Now entering the third hour of waiting to get some antibiotics. You not got health insurance man? The VA is a scary loving nightmare. I bet you qualify for obamacare.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:38
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Obamacare is pretty swell.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:41
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Yeah, I do, but this is free. It's just slow as poo poo.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:44
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Went back to the VA today. Was just there Tuesday. They couldn't treat me Tuesday because I had to do my initial intake today. Since they couldn't treat me Tuesday, they couldn't write me a note for missing class either. The moral of the story is don't miss class even if you feel like you're gonna die if you're covered by the VA.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:46
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When I was doing my inprocessing with the VA health system the other day, doc asked if I had any pain. So, I'm like "yeah, the usual headaches that I have all the time, some back pain and a little bit of pain in the my left knee". So he ordered the rest of my meds, and they turned up today. And there is seriously the biggest pill bottle I've ever seen. I have, quite literally, a half pound of ibuprofen here. And refills for 3 more. At lest they don't gently caress around with meds.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:51
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Yeah, I do, but this is free. It's just slow as poo poo. You are getting exactly what you aren't paying for. Go get grownup health insurance. It's 2015, and your not a 'nam vet. I voted for Obamacare supporters for exactly this kinda poo poo. So you wouldn't have to VA it up and die on a wait list, and could instead use publicly subsidized private health insurance. It's like the best possible loving solution given how our system works, and yet there you are, using the VA as your sole source of healthcare, aren't you? SMDH. Your that guy. GG. Enjoy your HAI, and lower life expectancy.
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Feb 26, 2015 23:56
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Pls go get obamacare. The loving Islamic State has shorter wait times to see an emaciated and psychotic doc that looks suspiciously like Caro in 'rab garb, in motherfucking Raqqa, than the VA does at their best clinic here stateside. 
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Feb 27, 2015 00:00
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Having job-subsidized insurance is pretty swell.
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OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH posted:
I'm that guy too.  For now, anyway. Goddamn does it suck. Besides, if the VA doesn't kill you, something else will.
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