What happens when the VA provides negligent medical care?

The Department of HHS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, et al, have been collecting data on and reporting for several decades the tragic, unnecessary, and avoidable deaths of as many as 300,000 to 400,000 Americans EVERY year in public hospitals from coast to coast due to gross incompetence and negligence on the part of doctors, nurses, and staff. Those figures did not include VA medical centers. I point this out for several reasons: the VA figures are relatively minuscule by comparison. Secondly, the country is rabidly enraged over gun-related deaths, whether by criminal intent or accidental design. And, yet, gun-related deaths average in the range of 15,000 a year. Drunk driving deaths are higher, deaths from falls at home are higher, murders from blunt objects are five times higher. Still, no one is picking on public hospitals or the medical profession for killing ten to twenty times more people annually.

The VA basically butchered the back of my head in a botched nerve ablation and now I suffer with unimaginable issues as a result. They felt an increase to permanent and total disability is justification, but it does nothing for helping me feel better. I cant even get them to find out what can be done to fix it or to treat symptoms. They screw up bad then just dont care!

I wish I had known that 30 years ago when my VA surgeons told me they removed 2 ½ feet of small bowel, but had actually removed more like 14 feet. I'd gotten an upgrade to 60% disability rating. If I'd known the truth I would have challenged it and probably gotten 100%. (I did get 100% P&T after my next surgery in which I discovered the truth, 15 years later).