An Ohio veteran’s drug overdose death in 2022 has been linked to scheduling errors in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new electronic health records system that has been plagued with performance problems.
An Ohio veteran’s drug overdose death in 2022 has been linked to scheduling errors in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new electronic health records system that has been plagued with performance problems.
When Carl Grant awoke from surgery in February 2020 and couldn’t move, he apologized to family gathered around his bed. In the fog of dementia, he thought he’d been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. But the Marine veteran had just suffered a spinal cord injury after a police officer slammed him to the floor.
When a Marine veteran experienced a manic episode at a rest stop, his mother called 911 for help and then watched as her son, Taylor Ware, was bitten by a police dog, shocked with a Taser, pinned to the ground and injected with a sedative. He would die at a hospital days later.