I admire the black widows who write letters to Surgeon General Satcher. But they cannot do this alone. We need a truth-telling law that codifies medical ethics into law. Tell the coworkers the truth, always. If it were made known that 100,000 or more dust-exposed veterans needed help, then Congress might try to help.
Silence is deadly as history has shown.
These were government health care professionals who agreed to obey orders to watch people suffer and die in silence. That is the paradox. Instead of simply teaching at the Pentagon's Medical School that we must honestly and openly tell workers how their coworkers died, we must make this law. That would be an historic and wonderful medical legacy for the sarcoid vets who have died in silence. History would finally honor them with a noble legacy.