dewenter is here to lay those doubts to rest. there simply were not enough doctors, not enough atonightments to handle new patients, backlogged patients and, yes, very sick patients. dewenter, a scheduling clerk, was making life and death decisions. >> and that really overtook even the wait list because now i have a consult where veterans are very sick so i have to ease up on the -- on the wait list, and it sounds so wrong to say, but -- and work these schedule appointments so at least i felt the sickest of the sick were being treated. >> and you're making basically those triage decisions? >> yes. kate, we did ask the v.a. for specific response to the allegations pauline dewenter is coming forward and they