Mst an FYI from a veteran who used to live in flordia.
Jacksonville and Gainesville are the WORST va hospitals in the nation! If you want a bandaid or cold pill , that’s about all you would get,
I could tell you many horror stories about that place but I’ll give you just 2 first hand personal ones.
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Us army veteran with crushed bones in hand since 1970. They refused him even X-rays.. ( he has a VA I’d card and was fully verified with DD214.) 20 yrs later he moved to a new state, they took him in less then 30 days from his move at the new states VA and did surgery to clean out hand and place a metal plate.
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Veteran suffered injuries to ear during her US NAVY service. Caused loss of right eardrum and partial hearing loss in left. Was denied hearing aids ( both for VA hospitals) was diabetic and never told. Was sent to gainville for hearing test, after test a nurse practitioner looked at ears and stated needed cleaning. The nurse then proceeded to try removing bone growth in the ear canal with a metal object and no anesthesia. Veteran left with pain and never returned to that hospital. She Moved to new state and has since recieved excellent care from new va hospital.
The veteran running joke in flordia is.. if you want to know what socialized medicine will be like visit a flordia va hospital.
That is all…
I stand in service to this country as a US NAVY VETERAN1