Heart doctor. I survived through prayer. Not v. A. Back pain since 2004 with bulging disks and a torn spleen. Have asked for two years for acupuncture. I finally have a great doctor. And i am grateful. But as i talk i said i have paid for my acupuncture every week it is 75 because mentally i could not take the pain but i do not receive any help he said i have a copy of my medical records five times paid in person and requested acupuncture. By primarycare physician followed through. She sent it to the pain clinic and never heard from them. Is falling on deaf ears. But i would like to say one other thing. I empowered myself over the v. A. I dont have any money for acupuncture but i saved myself and i had to. The other thing my primary care physician at the clinic since i have been coming here half the time she does not have a nurse she is overwhelmed and overworked and limited buy you guys. I go to primary care personally ask and still need acupuncture to get me through once a week they tell me come back in march march 20156 months from now. It will be two years. If he does stand together please all be a v. A. Veteran stan together and we can win. A man. [applause] good evening and chief petty officer retired and is one of the first womens day let into construction. Not that we can get the boys did not want us there. How many Women Veterans are here . Please identify yourself. According to my friend that sent me information about this meeting from oregon most are probably here in phoenix but where are they . I am not going there. The men that we served with war now vietnams veterans treats the women like crap if you hear me and dont like that bennett own it. There is a gentleman in this room right now that treated me like crap. Act like a man and i will treat you like a man and i was called a dyke. Were still treated like crap. I grew up barbie and they laughed on all the bases they were whores or sluts court dyke. If one or two does it does not fit to all of us. We come to v. A. And urges respected and are disrespect did. That needs to stop i am told i will not treat you i dont like your tone of voice parker was a drill instructor and a navy carpenter. I worked with the boys. I am not a little thing who talks like that. With that statement came from a physicians assistant that i made a complaint in we were told we are sorry but she is still working their abusing people. I had to go out of town to get treated because this person would not and did not like my tone of voice. I cannot change it. One other thing the patients advocate is named karen as the military veteran has bested her but to be a patient advocate. But nothing is done above her bet i saw her last month getting frustrated with veterans because she is so overwhelmed their no over here on the first floor they were moved a yearandahalf ago because they were too small but now theyre back with the same thing again. The last representative left she tried to get a permanent job in they would not hire hershey got another one in mesa. Of a good one. With this v. A. Said no. She cared too much. 5m i had to take a friend of mine in a wheelchair. Talking crazy i had to force the person she had to see to see her and said something is wrong. This is not her. Do a test. Then i had to force the person help me to wheel her chair to the emergency room because the one here will not accept a patient on the property if they get sick i was called told call the ambulance or you can bring her around to another hospital before she can be brought here. The end result . Heard doctors over medicated her. They said she did it on purpose. She has a personal living with her watching every bit they had her upstairs for a weekend at half and i had to advocate for her there. Did you check this . That is of female veterans are treated. One of the nurses decided to infect both tonsils and not have gloves on with the swab test. So i was put on the secondfloor. The room was filled the it had not been cleaned i was supposed to share a bathroom and it was filthy before i could even walking in there my tonsils well up i was told get in bet we will send a somebody. They entire hospital is chelsea the only reason this one is halfway cleaning it is brand new. My friend was put in a bet that was broken and ripped sheets. We are veterans there are pictures of thatso going to the i. G. And others that are complaining. With that is how Women Veterans are treated. Eric is nof1compassion by the people that work in this building new are just a body to get through the next one to go home. I am a senior and listed individual i did not get there by putting up with people scrap but i have had to bite my tongue in here because no offense but the gestapo is called. That means the police because them the button has been pushed. You dont even know then you are surrounded. We did not like your tone of voice. Just do my blood pressure. These people that work in those front offices they stop you do whatever they can to irritate you to keep you from being treated because they are overloaded. Or they dont belong here. They say really what veterans in those spots may be baser 22 years and got out because they cannot handle it. What about those who put their lives of the wine line . , doesnt mean you should sit behind the hiring dusk. Put ptsd against ptsd you get fire. Is that not true . You are laughing because you know,. Diabetic. Diabetics. I have a series of taking so many blood test now we will tell you that you are prediabetic. How come you did not tell me that before . Now you tell me . How did that happen . Because it is in my family . I dont know. I have gone through the glasses and guess what i am smart enough to know and i have the masters i have researchedyj this place right now is teaching the wrong information route diabetic control and killing me by giving me by saying that i can still eat bread. Just graves throughout the day. That kills your pancreas and makes it worse. You dont have upgraded information on diabetes. And 01 nutritionist is being told to tell people and it is wrong. Like the one gentleman talked about his diabetes because of the misdiagnoses. I can be proactive and be healthy but what about those veterans that cannot . When did that take the initiative are seen as negative a neat person theyre so good in that is how theyre treated. We are not necessarily those prima donnas in rio not there for your sexual pleasure but that is what they think there is called military sexual trauma and how many know about that . For . Three . Then you come here to get harassed. The guys look at the women going by. But it still goes on. So that stuff needs to stop. 59,000 women. Where are they . They dont want to come here. O last friday and this friday i could have gone home and had a fine evening but i didnt because there is a woman is indeed and i saw that she was navy. I said come with me i brought her back i got her through the steps nobody else would help you hasnt anybody v. A. Told you . Know but i have been trying nobody helps me. That means the of clinics those phreaking guard dogs they have no compassion. They dont do anything. That was last friday. Thifq friday since 12 00 today i saw a family in need of a father in a wheelchair taking him away from here to get him to michigan the daughter had to get him he could not get his medications because the supervisor for the pill pushers said he can only have one madison we have been waiting 30 days already. And then to say it has not been shipped. Know all this said in my computer does not print that . To÷g say this is what you need. Said daughter was about to flip out of us telling her to calm down you dont want them to call the cops. The father was getting upset how can you be called when they run you between clinics . Nobody in this place gave the dam. She said i cannot do anything because the father was then the uphill push airline. That is his advocate. I could not see that i just follow policy. She is caught. She cannot do anything. I have the phone number. They dont want to hear about it. She left in tears telling me how bad and nasty and a dirty this v. A. Is. They treat us good up there that is why we take him out of here. That doesnt say much for anybody. I have had people do passive aggressive behavior they dont like you or the way you sound like some day get back at you. They will stop you cannot give the doctor the paperwork they say he is not allowed. What . H doctors signature. What does that mean . Unless you are from a foreign country the doctor should sign that. They have been told theyre not allowed to sign anything said doctors themselves told me that. What the hell . Ptsd i was taken out because now we have to take care of the new veterans. Excuse me. I was your first. That it is in the chair but that is the level they take you. Bear with me. Valet parking at what nobody touching my blasted vehicle. It is baddie in half the people around here i now want a volunteer to take my vehicle somewhere when it has my a medication and my stuff that i know that i need and tell me i cannot park my own vehicle . Put that in your sock. Now one of the things about parking there is a bunch of fans valens serve vans vans vans everywhere patients should begin in doctors take spots off of the night shift to save them for their counterpart they will switch the parking lot so the date people could have the spots of the veterans. Doctors that come here to visit i have seen them do this i got up from. Veterans park up front it is so long ways from the back lot. Those little cards are not that is inefficient and god bless those volunteers. But they can only do so much. I spent to fridays your and i found out about this meeting that is high in politics. Where did you get this . I have had several sets and we will have a big sign by the elevator. Where is everybody at . The veterans i told said i had plans. And they will have of womens veterans fair the upstairs i think. Not very clear. Did you know, that . We are secondclass or worse citizens if somebody thinks that is funny then leave the room. I have walked women through boot camp. You are strong women dont but stuff have been. My strongest records in charge at night while i am gone was beat up and raped. Downtrodden and she is not the sameg individual. When will these atrocities stop . I have compassion for both but the women have it the worst. I have busted my but and was shit by guys who could not pass their tester could not read. They try to make me look bad. It did not work. But some of the women in here they are the queue to girls and looked at us like we are live in military we are a different breed. That doesnt mean we dont clean up nuys. But i rode my motorcycle tonight. But i am sure somebody is saying dyke. Dyke. Dyke there is someone standing here. Had you guys heard the new catch phrase . This is there excuse you talk to them and called them could you wait . I told this gentleman waiting to go to patients advocate an end to employees talk about personal off work stuff. The phone would ring but it is never picked up because people talk about personal stuff on their own time. They say can you hold . Just so they can talk about personal stuff again when they were done there would finally answer the phone again. That was the first time i heard hear the phrase i use are were helping save that. M i chopped liver . What about the other veterans . Whether you doing when you tell us . [inaudible] people think we make this up. [inaudible] i am just making sure i did not forget anything. Your emergency room is a joke. They tell you wait to see your primarycare doctor. Then you will be there all n,tsjjt. The last time i was in there because the clinton notes please send my a system accidentally left my phone in the car but the idiot said you cannot get your phone. It is right there. I got a parking space it was fourth of july. I could not call my family or friends or the person who had the keys to my house i was in limbo almost three days than it looked at my medical records they say was only one night. Fraudulent. Why do they make it fraudulent . What does it hurt oneandahalf 43 . I know what kind of games they play but the doctors are behind their computer. In the patients sit there and sit there. Heart problems. I have been told just tell them that you have that problem right off. They dont care. You see a physician assistant. They dont have any trading. Training. Because you make big money. You make a lot more than the rest of us made. How many officers and above are in here . One officer, two officers. Well, the rest of us are enlisted and we dont make that money. Even if you get paid by the va you are not making that kind of money but they wouldnt put up with that kind of care and we have to. Wrong. Zero kind one of the gentleman that died out about 40, he was on the va bowling league, he and his son. They took an old vietnam veteran man, put a pacemaker in his heart in this hospital and sent him home. They didnt keep him overnight for observation. His son found him the next morning dead and i am sure he would have been saved if they would have kept him overnight. The commercial thats on tv now with the ladies talking about the guy, her brother or somebody who committed suicide because this Emergency Rooms that ocoee dont have any beds for you. Golay home home and lay down and come back when you feel better. Look up that hallway, theres a ton of beds and i have always been there. At one point and this is from people of your staff, those beds were moved because karen didnt want them there but now that shes gone they are back. I heard that the day before yesterday. They are back. They hide them for their purposes and when they dont need them hidden anymore they bring them out. Thats not a storeroom. Thats a hallway. Thats a hallway out that door. I went to the wrong room. They are in there. There are samore down that hallway to go straight up. They were there an hour ago, two hours ago see you found another spot they are hiding them. Excellent. So gentlemen. Gentleman what are we going to do about this . We can say all they want about stand together. We dont have the money to fight it. Most people dont have the energy to even stand up here. I spent to fridays helping to different sets of sets and their families and its not the first time ive done it but these are the most recent and they cant get help by anybody in this facility. Fellow veterans, everyone in this room here is a veteran or a veterans advocate. Mr. Cortie, cortie excuse me i have been involved with this hospital since 1973 when i was released from Walter Reed Army hospital after 14 months. They were treating battle woun wounds, artificial arteries and my person. Im a three tour combat medic, minor search in trieste specialist. I work and airborne units, ranger recon units for 13 years of my military career and five years in the national guard. Im from the state of new hampshire. When i first came here because i have one long gone, they did not want me to be in the manchester Veterans Hospital because i was going to be dying of pneumonia because of the altitude. They sent me to a low altitude state which is arizona which i dearly love read when i first came here there were members in this room right now who will vouch that we had to actually fight the va system to get the posttraumatic stress clinic in. Not only that, we have people dying with 90day meds in their pockets committing suicide by overdosing. We finally got that squared aw away. I became the state commander of the amvets. Im also the International Commander of the proud eagles which are native american and nonnative american brothers called the wounded warriors. Since november of last year, and i might add this, i personally as commander have released hundreds of thousands of dollars for this hospital because we gave things for over 15 years. We are amvets. [applause] we still do the same thing now with all the paternal clubs. We had no parade in this town for us. We erected and put 12 in the bank with one member right now who in the final 37 cents. If you are my lion, raise your hand. We had 12 bucks. We got ahold of judy liddy. I happen to be the executive director for the Veterans Service commissioner which was countrymen. We came in and we asked them on the legislative committee that we would like to have a memorial built. Guess what . Not only do they get the Vietnam Veterans memorial built we commissioned we put on the biggest parade this town has served in. We had everybody including our own commanders who stood up there in line and said those were in my man right there. It was with general westmoreland and caspar weinberger. A hospital at that time was under rayborn. He works diligently to get us establish in this hospital. We did not let him down. We came back and did the things that were needed to raise the funds for certain programs that werent allocated by federal budgets. Theres one thing 1. 5 million of my complied raise. We want the logos, the seal of this country and the eagle is guardian being used as doormats outside of this hospital is a. Right now. We have sent a letter to the president and the video explaining to him that we would like to have those placed in a disgusting manner and placed in proper areas. I noticed yesterday, i looked at some of the guys nice to gee quiz we are in their left press pocket he they never did before and they are all wearing them now. All these patches you see on my chest here i have earned every single one of them just like this gentleman did here in his and there are 50 years between us. And 74 years old. I am dying of agent orange liver cancer caused by lead transfusions by the va. Im on a special and native diet and for the first time in two years they told me we couldnt find you ron, we thought you had died. I now have a good doctor and for the first time in two years ive got an appointment that said ron we have to put you on some 2000dollar a day drugs or you are going to die. I cant even receive that until i go through an Extensive Program of antibiotics because kidney shutdown, livers shut down. Ive only got partial use of one lung. I have artificial stents in my right leg, severed fingers and hands, 13inch scars down my chest from bayonet lens while i was out working on a veteran patient. I want to make this very clear, before i pass on to the great reward their amendments from that know me very well. The concepts are running this day since 19844. We are not a bunch of rabblerousers. We dont take people off the street. I am a member of the American Legion and the amvets. Im a state commander, and the regional commander and we would like to see before you leave to go back to washington glenn, i met you an elevator a month ago. I would like you to try to get those doormats taken off. We are at war with isis right now gentlemen and we need to protect that eagle and that flag which we have all blood for and thats the reason we are in this room right this moment. Im simply asking everyone here to stand and be counted to focus the removal of those signs you put on the walls. I have nothing more to say say and isolate you from the hard work you are doing and i see some changes already in medical personnel. That speaks what i wear and that me