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I have dealt with the Fayetteville and Durham VA, and have been in the facilities as a patient a couple of dozen times.
While Fayetteville is by far the worse, both suffer from a huge number of worthless employees who could give a shit less about a vet or the vet's health. From their apparent perspective, the vet is an annoyance who interrupts their personal phone calls, smoke breaks, office parties, social media, extended lunches, etc.
Unfortunately, it appears to me that the VA is an employment program for many who could not get a job in a non-government position, and who have job security for life, which seems to me to consist primarily of personal business, interrupted at the absolute minimum number of times by patient needs.
IMHO, given the authority, a personnel roster, and a couple of days of observation, I could cut the staff of either facility I have visited by at least 25% without any appreciable impact on patient care. In fact, it might even improve.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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