Uncle Sam's shame
Subtitle: inside our broken Veterans Administration
By: Martin Kantor
Publisher: Praeger Security International; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780313346514
Subjects: Evaluation; Management; Veterans' hospitals; Veterans; Medical care; Veterans Hospitals; Health Policy; Hospital-Patient Relations; Organizational Culture; United States Government Agencies; United States. Veterans Health Administration; United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: An overview of the VA bureaucracy; title: Psychological reasons for staff mistreating veterans; title: Problematic medical care; title: Problematic nonmedical administration; title: Problematic medical administration; title: Problematic ancillary staff; title: Problematic veterans groups; title: Problematic oversight from Washington; title: Difficult patients; title: The potentially violent VA patient; title: Problems with the physical structure; title: Money and VA medicine; title: Toward better medical care for vets; title: Self-help: how vets can become better medical consumers; title: A look to the future/recommendations; title: On the positive side.