Posted on May 2, 2024
After downsizing healthcare for years, Pentagon says medical readiness was a casualty
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The Air Force put Todd Rasmussen through medical school, and he planned to serve a while and then go into private practice at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He started his military career as a vascular surgeon in Northern Virginia, a few weeks before Sept. 11, 2001.
"You could sort of see smoke from the Pentagon. I thought, boy, my military career as a surgeon ... it's gonna be vastly different than what I expected," he recalls.
The Air Force put Todd Rasmussen through medical school, and he planned to serve a while and then go into private practice at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He started his military career as a vascular surgeon in Northern Virginia, a few weeks before Sept. 11, 2001.
"You could sort of see smoke from the Pentagon. I thought, boy, my military career as a surgeon ... it's gonna be vastly different than what I expected," he recalls.
After downsizing healthcare for years, Pentagon says medical readiness was a casualty
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Our military medical system is hard broke. See it everyday where I work...They rolled all the services medical teams under Defense Heatlh Agency and ever since it has gone to crap and getting worse. Our active duty troops deserve better, and so do our retirees that are forced to use these so called MTF's due to Tricare regulations.
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