Read this MUST READ POST by a miliblogger who is an Army major wounded in Iraq who has had some surgeries there.
Our reader writes: “The articles in the Washington Post over this past weekend helped to shine some more light on the many problems at Walter Reed. But despite the good that will come from it, this really was agenda-driven journalism. What Chuck writes, on the other hand, comes from the perspective of a good officer who experienced many of these difficulties first hand.” The reader writes that many doctors and nurses do great work at the hospital:”But if there’s a single lesson to be learned here, it’s that good patient care doesn’t end when the doctors, nurses, and therapists leave the room.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.