Testimony of Chief Medical Director, Veterans' Administration, Concerning Veterans' Hospitals, Facilities, and Personnel: Hearings Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session ... June 17 and 18, 1947U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 42 pages |
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... officers and tells them to quit sending cases over there , service - con- nected or emergency cases ; that they cannot handle them . Certainly your statistics would reflect that there are no waiting cases if the service officers of the ...
... officers and tells them to quit sending cases over there , service - con- nected or emergency cases ; that they cannot handle them . Certainly your statistics would reflect that there are no waiting cases if the service officers of the ...
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... officers to quit sending those cases , and make them quit sending you reports up here that there are no . service - connected or emergency cases waiting . Do you know of this service veteran that was denied admission at Muskogee ? Dr ...
... officers to quit sending those cases , and make them quit sending you reports up here that there are no . service - connected or emergency cases waiting . Do you know of this service veteran that was denied admission at Muskogee ? Dr ...
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... officers of the various service organizations not to send any more patients there but to put a stop to it should not be considered . Mr. TEAGUE . Do you have specific names that you can turn over to the general so he can check up on it ...
... officers of the various service organizations not to send any more patients there but to put a stop to it should not be considered . Mr. TEAGUE . Do you have specific names that you can turn over to the general so he can check up on it ...
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... officers and between competent medical people as to whether or not a case is a hospital case and if every veteran were to be admitted to a hospital on his own application and on his own determination for the need of hospitalization , we ...
... officers and between competent medical people as to whether or not a case is a hospital case and if every veteran were to be admitted to a hospital on his own application and on his own determination for the need of hospitalization , we ...
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... officer signed a certificate saying it was an emergency case , and the veteran would have died had he not gotten there immediately . Now , this man operated the ambulance in two cases , and in another one similar to this has contacted ...
... officer signed a certificate saying it was an emergency case , and the veteran would have died had he not gotten there immediately . Now , this man operated the ambulance in two cases , and in another one similar to this has contacted ...
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Page 40 - Veterans' organization' means an organization composed of members or former members of the armed forces of the United States which is organized for patriotic and public service purposes, including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Jewish War Veterans, American GI Forum, Catholic War Veterans, or any veterans' organization chartered by the United States Congress.
Page 14 - ... emergency cases. I think the public, from the information that comes out of your office, it seems to me, gets such a glowing report that everything is going all right, when I know down in my State that they are not. I just fairly well sympathize with the Appropriations Committee and everyone else, but if you are not going to come in here and tell us what you need...
Page 19 - ... the certification ? Mr. SHUFF. I was not in it at the time. I have to get that from Mr. Fowler. Do you have the vote ? Mr. FOWLER. Do you want the actual figures of the vote ? Mr. PUCINSKI. Approximately. Mr. AYRES. Yes, approximately. Mr. PUCINSKI. I will give it to you in just a second. Mr. AYRES. The thing that I am trying to get at, Mr. Chairman, is that this has come up in different places throughout the country. The employees go out and strike and then, before anything is settled, most...
Page 39 - ... Well, then, I hope the chairman will support my amendment. Mr. Allen. Would the gentleman yield? Mr. Kearney. Yes. Mr. Allen. Of course, the gentleman knows that I would support it, too. I think that that would be a good amendment. Mr. Kearney. Well, the committee will have a chance to vote on it. Mr. Huber. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. Kearney. Yes. Mr. Huber. I think, since everybody has to play the same record when we discuss communism, I want to say in advance how I, too, detest and despise...