An Arizona veteran died of a heart attack after seeking treatment for chest pain from the Phoenix Veterans Administration medical center, where he was told he had to wait nearly seven weeks for a basic diagnostic test, a lawsuit settled by the government earlier this month for $800,000 revealed.
The Department of Veterans Affairs faces intense criticism for long wait times and fraudulent recordkeeping at its Phoenix facility, but the agency’s acting inspector general said that, to date, he’s found no evidence that delays in care led to fatalities.
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