All vets  know if  you have  ANY other  health care don’t  bother   with the  VA system where impossible  wait  times are  standard.  If  you  are  able  to get an  apt? It  is usually good  treatment and often superior due  to knowing  more  about  vet’s health  problems  than  anyone.  “MY GAWD! someone  actually died  waiting treatment   they never  got? And  gaming in  the  back room?  I’M Shocked! SHOCKED!”  More  civil unfireable servants. Must  always  be  considered  the  ulimate  cost of  war  that  lasts near  forever families  involved. Unfortunately  the  folks  that  die  are  WITHOUT other health care to access so must  rely  on  an inadequate VA while  this  admin insures others  with subsidy and injustice  for  all . Once IN THE SYSTEM with someone diagnosing  and prescribing for  condition? That’s  different.  Still a  delay getting to a  specialist. Admission  changes  it  all to INPATIENT where  treatment  and  release  is  the  goal so don’t   try  to hang  for  lunch with AM release.  If  you get  a  teaching  hospital with a civilian resident  program it’s  just  amazing to have  class  of  dermatologists  razoring  every  bump and  wart  on  your  body.  Never  felt  so clean in  life  but took months to get  that. A new ENT resident  from UTSA Med  center   across  street  program   from Audi Murphey VA here  peeked in my  right ear in  early  1980. gasped and  ran for  his  chief. Saw  an attic tympanic  colestoma (text  book stuff ) and  they scheduled me  for  surgery. AF  fiight  surgeons  missed  it  for   near  20 years while it  grew into my ear  canal and  eroded  the  skull to a  sponge. Had  about  a thin  MM of  bone  over the  carotid  artery they could  see pulsing  after  peeled  back my  ear process to clean the  bone  infection. Did  a bone  graft as  was a  good  blow  away from a  rupture,  all she  wrote.  Woke  up as  he  told  us. “We  saved  your  life  but  you lost  your  hearing”. My  jaw  dropped as  none  had  really explained  what I had.   Made  a  fake  eardrum and  for  about  a  year  I could  scratch it  as  a  .50 cal hole. Now about  .38 Special and  all the  bone  back of  skull filled in. So I appreciate  the  civilian corp mucho. Had  a  private  MD referral   from WellMed tell me  I had  same  on left  side  2  years  back and  fortunate  he  was  dead  wrong on testing. I don’t  go back to him! I just  get  a new  plastic  button window  when the  old  falls  out  to keep  fluid  from  shutting me  down 100% &  Dorly  hears  the  TV way up  and  schedules  me.

Turns  out the most  active  tissue  in  entire  body is  ear  canal  lining. Just  lives  to eject  anything there making  wax  like  mad. If  a  burst  drum (I had  them often altitude  changes  involved )  a  piece of  the  skin invades  and  starts  trapping  gook in  the  pocket  and  destroys  all it  hits. They  ID’d a  tiny  piece of the sturrip  as  all left. I was  hearing  due  to liquid  transmitting sound  better  than  air. Thot  I was  faking  my  hearing  tests with superhuman ear! Junk gone  was  deaf r  side.   LIfe  deals  funny  hands  from a  rigged  deck you  eventually lose. Play along is  only  game in  town.  Good  room serves  drinks! 8