Does Arnold Schwarzenegger Deserve Better Care Than Our Veterans Do?
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor,
he decided that you and I don’t need to have physicians in charge of our
anesthesia care, and he signed a letter exempting California from that
federal requirement. Luckily most California hospitals didn’t agree, and
they ignored his decision.
When he needed open-heart surgery to
replace a failing heart valve, though, Governor Schwarzenegger saw
things differently. He chose Steven Haddy, MD, the chief of
cardiovascular anesthesiology at Keck Medicine of USC, to administer his
anesthesia.
Now some people in the federal government have decided that veterans in VA hospitals all across the US should not have the same right the governor had—to choose to have a physician in charge of their anesthesia care.
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