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LT Brad McInnis
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Is his story sad? Yes. But, how many people have cases like this? 1, 10, 100? When we start making laws because we feel bad about a certain person who has been paraded around as an example, then we make sh#tty laws. Write good laws, fix them when they don't work as expected. I, nor anyone I served with, ever had bad diagnoses. So, I think this is sad, but not law worthy. The families can sue, and the SM's are always covered. In his case he waited until it was so bad before he went to the Dr in Jan 2017 for pneumonia. It never got better until he collapsed in May 2017. Maybe he shouldn't have tried to tough it out, and realized after 10 days or so, when there was no change, and should have gone back to the Dr.
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MCPO Roger Collins
MCPO Roger Collins
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Can’t think of a single incident during my 21 years that would warrant legal action against medical treatment by military Medical personnel. Shore or ship (subs in my case). And at times, our Doc was an E-5.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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If not us, then certainly our family members
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SGM Steve Wettstein
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SSgt Jim Gilmore
SSgt Jim Gilmore
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Not sure what current policy is but use to be you could not sue military doctors as a service member. However, your dependents could sue if they were malpractice victims in a military hospital.
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