VA Mistakenly Tells Vets They Have Fatal Illness

An anonymous reader writes "Thanks to a computer glitch and bad diagnosis coding, the VA sent a letter to thousands of veterans telling them they have Lou Gehrig's Disease. Some were right, but many were mistakes. From the article, 'Recently, the VA determined ALS to be a service-connected disability and generated automatic letters to all veterans whose records included the code for the disease. However, since the coding contained both ALS and undiagnosed neurological disorders, some of those letters were erroneous.'"

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Re:Not "vets" but "veterans"

[Aeternitas827]

It depends on context, asshat. If it's an article about animals, you're absolutely right; if it's an article about people, you're dead fucking wrong. If you're an American, show some fucking respect; the wars these folks fought in may not have been 'right', but they did more than your lazy ass sitting in a chair in front of a computer.

Side note: If we were in a draft era, I would have been 4-F'd off the bat, before you bring up that counter.