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Military Times | VA oversight lapses allowed pathologist's serious medical errors to accumulate: watchdog reports
Inadequate oversight by Veterans Affairs senior leaders and a fear of whistleblower reprisal among other staffers allowed a department pathologist to make thousands of serious medical errors, including the deaths of at least two patients, according to the findings of a scathing investigative report released Wednesday.
The findings from the VA Inspector General focus on the actions of Robert Morris Levy, a former staffer at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Arkansas from 2005 to 2018.
In January, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter and mail fraud connected to the mistakes, brought to light after several years of investigation by VA and law enforcement authorities. |
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