Kick 'em When They're Down

1,800 MISTAKES?? It seems nearly two thousand veterans received letters falsely informing them that they have Lou Gehrig's disease...ALS...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. MY GOD!!

How could such a HUGE error happen? Can you even imagine the panic of those vets opening their mail?

I want to know how such an error of RIDICULOUS proportions happened in the first place. One erroneous letter I could understand...a 'mouse click'- and a wrong name is selected from a drop-down menu. These things occur all the time in electronic data entry....but ....

1,800? Makes one mighty skittish about electronic medical record-keeping, doesn't it? ) Because you know it's gonna be blamed on a computer/sorting/etc.etc. 'malfunction'...but always, always, it's the monkeys pushing the buttons without controls in place to double check, that causes this stuff.

(It's just that this one.....well......given what our VA Affairs are going through with over-stretching of budgets and personnel, trying to manage the physically and emotionally maimed of this LOOOOOOOOONG, almost ten year nightmare in the Middle East... this current SNAFU is just intolerable.)

Makes me wanna punch something.