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NEWS ABOUT: Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Walter Reed Army Medical Center stories: 22 news summaries

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Boss Warned of 'Serious' Hasan Concerns 2 Years Ago

2007 memo outlines supervisor's
'serious concerns'

Nov 19, 09 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Nidal Hasan's supervisor at the Walter Reed Medical Center warned that the psychiatrist was unprofessional and lazy in a harshly critical performance evaluation in 2007. Hasan "demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism," the report states, noting that he proselytized to his patients and... More »

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US military • US Army • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • psychiatrist • evaluation • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

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 Army Medicine 
 Failed Hasan, 
 Shooting 
 Victims 

Shooter wasn't promoted because it was PC; it was necessity

Nov 13, 09 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Media coverage of the Fort Hood killings has been factually challenged and quick to jump to conclusions about terrorism and political correctness, but the underlying problem is much bigger, Mark Benjamin argues. The real question: Why was alleged shooter Nidal Malik Hasan an Army psychiatrist in the first place? Given... More »

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medicine • US military • US Army • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • political correctness • psychiatrist • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan • Mark Benjamin

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Hasan Warned of Threat
From Muslims in Military

Fort Hood suspect spoke of suicide bombings in 2007 lecture

Nov 10, 09 7:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Nidal Hasan warned that "adverse events" could occur if Muslims weren't allowed to leave the US military in a bizarre presentation he gave to Army physicians in 2007 at the end of his residency at Walter Reed Medical Center. The psychiatrist lectured senior doctors on Islam, the Koran, and... More »

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US military • Muslim • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • troops • Fort Hood • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

 Petraeus 
 Secretly 
 Treated 
 for Cancer 


General diagnosed with prostate cancer in February

Oct 6, 09 6:04 AM CDT
(AP) - Gen. David Petraeus was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer in February but underwent successful radiation treatment at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the military disclosed today. A spokesman for Petraeus said the treatment had little effect on the general's job and Petraeus did make at least one overseas trip... More »

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cancer • prostate cancer • David Petraeus • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • radiation • Army general

(Newser) - A new program is putting some smiles on the many pained faces at Walter Reed Army Medical Center—and perhaps even helping wounded veterans recover, Slate reports. The seed for Musicorps came when musician/producer/tinkerer Arthur Bloom was asked to help an amputee there play drums again. Now, the program teaches... More »

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music • rehabilitation • brain damage • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq veterans • Afghanistan veterans • Jay-ZTV • Musicorps • Arthur Bloom

Bush Gets Shoulder MRI, Visits Soldiers at Walter Reed

President's pain likely just result of wear and tear, docs say

Dec 22, 08 2:26 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush underwent an MRI today after complaining of pain in his shoulder, the AP reports. The test was done at Walter Reed Medical Center where Bush was visiting convalescing Iraq war veterans, perhaps for the last time during his presidency. A White House doctor said the injury had not... More »

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White House • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • MRI • Iraq veterans • George W. Bush • pain • shoulder

Wounded Vets Assaulted by Mold—Again

Soldiers ordered not to talk about conditions at Walter Reed stand-in

Aug 18, 08 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a replay of the scandalous conditions uncovered at Walter Reed Medical Center last year, an Oklahoma barracks that houses wounded soldiers has become infested with mold, soldiers stationed there told USA Today. Twenty soldiers stepped forward, saying they’d been ordered not to discuss conditions at Fort Sill,... More »

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Walter Reed fallout • Department of Veterans Affairs • army hospitals • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Fort Sill

Walter Reed Exposé Helps Post Net 6 Pulitzers

NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel among other winners

Apr 7, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post today won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Walter Reed scandal and grabbed five more of the coveted awards in the biggest haul in the paper's history. A series on the power of Dick Cheney earned the national reporting medal, and... More »

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Dick Cheney • New York Times • Walter Reed fallout • Washington Post • Pulitzer Prize • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • lead tainted toys • Boston Globe • Chicago Tribune • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

 Wounded Warriors
 Saluted at Pentagon

Quiet indoor ceremony honors injured

Mar 13, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A poignant and little-known ceremony featuring wounded vets is held privately indoors at the Pentagon every six weeks, reports the Wall Street Journal. It's called the "Wounded Warrior March." Hundreds of Defense Department employees line the corridors of the Pentagon to applaud, cheer, shake hands, or hug... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Pentagon • Department of Defense • soldier • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • wounded • Marine • Wounded Warrior March • caskets • bereaved • Maj. Zachary Miller • Diane Bodman • Maj. Lyndon Marshall

Iraq Vet Faces Life Over Suicide Try

Shrinks say she's mentally ill, but Army calls it 'psychobabble'

Dec 2, 07 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - First Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside faces possible life in prison. Her crime? Attempting suicide in Iraq. At a military hearing this week, her diagnosed mental illness was spurned by superiors as an "excuse” and labeled “psychobabble." Suicide tries remain illegal in a military culture that scorns mental disorder,... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • prison • mental illness • psychology • Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Mirror Eases Phantom
Limb Pain

Reflection of healthy appendage helps fool brains of amputees

Nov 23, 07 8:44 PM CST
(Newser) - The phantom pain amputees experience from a missing limb can be dramatically reduced if they view their remaining leg or foot in a mirror, Reuters reports. The mirror tricks the brain into thinking the amputated limb is intact, researchers conclude. A controlled study of injured soldiers at Walter Reed found... More »

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medical breakthrough • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • amputees • wounded • Jack Tsao

Ex-Colleague Blasts VA Nominee

Peake's record as Army medical chief troubling, retired general says

Nov 2, 07 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fixing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ medical system will take a leader who sees the big picture, a skill nominee James Peake doesn’t possess, an ex-colleague tells NPR. “When I tell you honestly what I think of him, I could lose my job,” said the retired general,... More »

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Bush administration • Department of Veterans Affairs • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Army Medical Command • James Peake

Bush Nominates Doc to Head Veteran Affairs

James B. Peake would be first physician and general to hold post

Oct 30, 07 9:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush today nominated James B. Peake, a doctor and retired Army lieutenant general, to head the Veteran Affairs department, the LA Times reports. With his medical and military backgrounds, Peake is the perfect choice to overhaul the nation’s system for treating wounded soldiers, Bush says. A major report... More »

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Department of Veterans Affairs • soldier • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Bob Dole • James B. Peake • medical • wounded • George W. Bush

Injured GIs Pledged Better Care

Commission calls for overhaul of military health system

Jul 26, 07 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The military health care system is inadequate to treat the casualties of  two modern wars and the nation should immediately move to overhaul it, a bipartisan presidential commission concluded yesterday. The panel called for improvements in treatment of brain injuries and post traumatic stress syndrome, as well as changes in... More »

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Robert Gates • Jim Nicholson • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Wounded Warriors • Bob Dole • Donna E. Shalala • PTSD

Head of Veterans Affairs Quits

Secretary's short tenure long on scandals and other woes

Jul 17, 07 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The secretary of Veterans Affairs, the head of the second-biggest federal department, is stepping down and will be replaced by October 1, reports the Washington Post. For 2½ turbulent years, Jim Nicholson, a decorated Vietnam vet and former RNC chair, presided over a department beset by criticism and overwhelmed by... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • veterans • RNC • veterans' health care • US troops • Jim Nicholson • Department of Veterans Affairs • VA • Vietnam veteran • army hospitals • soldier • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq veterans • Iraq war

Bush Won't
Say No to
Libby Pardon

Sentence commutation may not be last chapter of CIA leak story

Jul 3, 07 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will not eliminate the possibility of a full pardon for Scooter Libby, he said today. Under fire from supporters for not pardoning the VP's ex-chief of staff and from critics for commuting the 30-month prison sentence—a decision he described as "very difficult"—he said he... More »

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Bush administration • federal courts • CIA leak investigation • federal investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • George W. Bush

Army Hospital MIA on Stress Disorders

Walter Reed lacks resources to cope with growing problem

Jun 18, 07 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though 20 to 40 soldiers are sent home from Iraq each month with severe mental problems, the Army's largest hospital has no post-traumatic stress disorder center, reports the Washington Post. There is also a severe shortage of doctors qualified to treat these patients. Not long ago, the head of psychiatry... More »

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health care • veterans • psychiatry • stress • soldier • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • PTSD

Walter Reed Bars Baez

Army blames short notice for activist's exclusion from hospital

May 2, 07 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center were treated to tunes by John Mellencamp last week, but not Joan Baez—hospital officials refused to let the legendary folk singer and antiwar activist join him. A spokesman told Rolling Stone the request to include Baez came too late. Said Mellencamp: "... More »

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Joan Baez • John Mellencamp • Dan Rather • US Army • Walter Reed Army Medical Center

(Newser) - The mess at Walter Reed was detailed in a damning task force report in 2004, obtained by Salon, in which soldiers described their frustrations with outpatient care and bureaucratic nightmares. Not only was the report ignored, but the official who sat on it for three years is now up for... More »

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health care • veterans • Michael Kussman • Department of Veterans Affairs • soldier • hospital • Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Bush Is Worse Than a Lame Duck

Mar 27, 07 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FT catalogs a litany of the obstacles for President Bush achieving anything meaningful in his last 22 months in office. At the core of it all is the Iraq war, which has reduced Bush’s popularity to the point where he has no more political capital to spend. More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Congress • terrorism • Republican • politics • war • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • Iraq war • George W. Bush

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