"Health & Medical News"

“We are not your father’s VA,” Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, who until recently headed the Dept. of Veterans Affairs health system, was fond of saying about today’s department.

For decades, the quality of care in the VA health system was considered woefully sub-par. Enrollees complained of shoddy facilities, uncaring medical professionals and neglectful treatment. Its reputation suffered from such accounts as Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July,” which depicted the paralyzed protagonist’s VA hospital setting as squalid and decaying.

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