It is no secret that President Trump’s former nominee to run the Veterans Administration, Navy Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, has withdrawn his nomination amidst allegations related to his behavior: that he drank on the job, was a bully in the office and improperly gave out prescription medication. He has vehemently denied the allegations and characterized them as false and fabricated.
Dr. Jackson is an Iraq War veteran who ...
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Just a minute before, I had been in surgery checking on the status of a patient who was undergoing an exploratory laparotomy. She had been doing OK, but deteriorated relatively quickly that afternoon while still in the hospital recuperating from an unrelated operation. The anesthesiologist popped out of the room to tell me what the initial findings looked like. It was not good. That’s when I went to speak to ...
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