Did A Chronic Pain Marine Lose or Not?
www.nationalpainreport.com/did-a-chronic-pain-marine-lose-or-not-8836775.html
Did the Fighting Marine Robert Rose win or lose Tuesday in U.S. Federal Court in Greeneville, Tennessee?
Depends on how you look at it?
From a legal point of view, he lost.
A Federal Judge rejected Rose’s attempt for an injunction that would have forced his Congressman (Phil Roe) and his Veterans Administration Hospital Mountain Home VA Center in Johnson City, to talk about Rose’s claim that treatment for his chronic pain was denied.
Rose, who took on his Quixotic adventure versus a huge federal bureaucracy without the benefit of a lawyer, lost but, in defeat, he may have won.
First of all, Congressman Roe, ironically (or maybe not ironically) is head of the House Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
Rose has challenged Roe for over a year, to simply talk with him.
It started July 4, 2017 when Rose showed up at an event at the VA Center…but was denied his opportunity to speak with his Congressional Representative. The National Pain Report was there, at least on the telephone.
Here is the National Pain Report coverage on Robert Rose’s battle.
What did Congressman Roe do?
As one long-time observer of Tennessee politics who wished to remain anonymous told the National Pain Report Tuesday, “Robert was marginalized and was made invisible and stigmatized by his own Congressman. It’s a tragedy.”
What did Robert do?
Thanks to his own expertise in developing a following on social media, and the National Pain Report’s interest in his case, Robert has built a narrative that has caught the attention of other veterans.
Here’s one of many examples the National Pain Report has received to Robert’s story:
“I was injured in the 1983 Beirut bombing conflict with neck and lower back injury that resulted in spinal stenosis, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, PTSD /panic attacks, neuropathy of my feet because of lower back, said Walter Radziszweski, a Connecticut veteran who emailed the National Pain Report on Tuesday. I have been going to the VA mostly at the Newington CT campus which is an outpatient clinic. Specialty care at the West Haven campus and getting timely appointments are just about impossible and return phone calls take days. Care is good, when you can get it!“
For fellow Tennessee resident and nationally recognized chronic pain advocate, Terri Lewis, Ph.D., the Marine’s efforts are starting to pay off.
Dr. Lewis believes Robert’s case is a textbook opportunity for the VA to address its mission to give Rose and other vets the palliative care they deserve.
“I’ve surveyed thousands of chronic pain patients and Robert’s case is typical… The question that Congressman Roe and others ought to be asking is ‘Why hasn’t’ the VA served people like Robert better?” she said.
She believes that Robert and other vets who has been denied care need to continue the fight within the VA to make sure our vets receive their care.
Robert, as he drove into his driveway plainly exhausted, told the National Pain Report, “I’m tired, but I will think about a new strategy about how we best address the issues facing our veterans and others who want to know that addressing their chronic pain is a priority.”
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To screw with our veterans is the ultimate betrayal to them, their families and EVERY US citizen!!! For shame!
They expect, and get, young men & women to fight their dirty little wars, to fight invisible foes, at times, innocent civilians, destroying villages, schools, 2 nations. They are surviving injuries that even in Nam were unsurvivable. And come home to support from families, towns, but in a repeat of Nam, feds turned away, cut funds to any vet programs. Yet there there are always trillions for defense corps, contract “soldiers” forces (Halliburton/Blackwater/Cheney ) denying Agent Orange, napalm, PTSD claims….and now pain meds…..the number of vet suicides is so heart breaking.
When will DC represent us, not corps or special interest?
When Citizens United ruling is overturned and all politically bought parasites are run outta town.
Pray for this. And write, email, call any govt agency involved.
I wish you all better care, the treatments and meds you need, and the support you deserve.
I have spoken with him numerous times, he is a true American Hero not in just serving our country but also in the battle to preserve the rights of physicians and chronic pain patients to receive medically deemed necessary treatment. I am so tired of watching chronic pain patients die by heart attacks, strokes, organ failure, & suicide, which has risen to the #3 cause of death in the U.S. in accordance with the illegal release of the 2016 CDC opaite prescription guidelines; these are all medical ways that result in death after patients with chronic moderate to severe chronic pain are left under & untreated for their pain. The epedemic we face now is people dying daily from being denied opiate medications NOT from prescribing them. This is a violation of our 14th Ammendment of our Constitional Rights, our Decleration of Independence, & a violation of The Americans with Disabilities Act. That said every CPP, their loved ones, & care givers must speak out as often as possible to every media outlet, federal agency, governing bodies, our state reps, senators, congressman’s, comment on open forums from government bodies & news media outlets; every story counts, every voice matters, & each person can & mist help create change not just relying on others to do so. Your story matters! This is a travesty against humanity & a inhumane torture of the U.S. chronic pain patients by our own government; built on illegally written guidelines, falsified #s by government agencies, & a propaganda campaign of lies portrayed on a society desperate to end O.D. deaths yet almost all are caused by the illegal use of opaites & illegal opaites, not deaths due to prescribed opaites. This is a travesty & I pray we all do are part for justice to prevail.
“All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.”…Edmund Burke
#EVERYVOICECOUNTS
Great post!
We need to be VOCAL, persistent and unwavering. So ashamed to be an American when I read the betrayal of our vets. I am reminded of Nam and Agent Orange. Watched 2 friends struggle, no support, both so neurologically impaired they never worked again. PTSD, IED injuries that were unsurvivable in the 60s are being sidelined, ignored.
Pentagon et al has not learned a damn thing, nor do they wany to….military-industrial complex is bigger, more lethal, more trillions to corps than ever.
Vote, mail, call, march, then repeat….massive public protests helped in 60s, can’t hurt.