Medical Records Requests:
A Waste of Time

Part of my V.A. paranoia is the inability to acquire, as stated as a veteran right, a copy of my medical records. Two attempts have been made.

  1. 140326 Dir Brandecker, McGuire VAMF
  2. 140502 Information employee, main entry, McGuire VAMF

After the second request, a number of questions came to mind.

  1. The V.A. prides itself on telling the world it has a unified medical records system that allows any V.A. employee, anywhere to instantaneously access a vet's record. Why does it take so long (20 days cited) to print or CD a copy of records?
  2. Why did the V.A. employee at the second, in person, request aggressively want my physical write-up which she promptly dropped into a paper shredder next to her desk.
  3. Why no time-stamped record of request for medical records?
  4. Is it possible, or probable, that V.A. has a cleanup team which scrubs or redacts information on the vet? If so, this violates numerous laws that summarizes in the following conclusion: "The vet's health is being compromised by the V.A. not providing its complete record of the vet's healthcare." How poetic: Vetting the vets!
  5. The lack of V.A. medical records delays the vet from seeking private healthcare due to the lack of records--another variation of the V.A.'s causing delayed treatment of vets.

If ever get my medical records, I'm sure the timelines of my scatalogical notetaking and the V.A.'s notemaking will be quite different based on my attempting to have a private physician prescribe the anti-narcoleptic medicine. No where in my contact letter did I mention "sleep" problems. I did mention my problems with the V.A. Do you think when this healthcare provider told me to address my sleep problems that she diagnosed me without ever having met me? Or, did she contact the V.A. with a resulting medical summary different from my actual condition?