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...treatment was exemplary. But I never saw Building 18, the notorious barrack described in the Post account, nor heard more than routine grumblings about red tape from outpatients living on the hospital grounds. Compared with the VA systems that many wounded vets later encounter, Walter Reed seemed cozy and efficient...
Career changes can affect family members dramatically too. When Reid accepted the P&G job, she uprooted her doctor husband from Richmond, Va., along with their two young children. The couple eventually divorced. Ruxin's move forced his new wife (the trailing spouse, in human resources--speak) to make a career change of her own. Alissa, 32, once managed wellness programs for Goldman Sachs; today she is about to open a swanky café in Rwanda's capital. In his reporting on the "true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions," Josh Piven, author of The Escape Artists...
...Vienna, Va...
BILL O'BRIEN Port Republic, Va...
...Ironically, it is advances in medicine - not to mention an overabundance of bureaucracy as well - that created this war's unprecedented number of recovering outpatients. In past wars, injured soldiers were treated and discharged to VA hospitals for follow-up care. Walter Reed has kept them longer to improve use of the latest prostheses or ease post traumatic stress disorder and mild brain injuries, maladies rarely diagnosed in Vietnam...