i received a note from dimitris rentzis

on the original posting i did on lance corporal justin bailey. let me correct that, on the DEATH of lance corporal justin bailey - who happened to be the best friend of dimitris rentzis

i wanted to post dimitris' letter. he wanted me to use names, i don't feel quite right about that (i'm sorry dimitris).

Thank you for posting the story in your blog. It is a total shame what happened. Now the VA is trying to prove me a liar claiming the staff was never warned. There are too many phone records, witnesses and taped phone conversations that will prove the staff wrong. I've dealt with people like them before and I learned how to document events when I see the warning signs of a disaster.I have overwhelming evidence that the staff was warned, including Dr. W, who started him on Methadone on Dec 12th 2006. I have phone records to prove that I warned this Dr. W on Dec 8th, four days prior to sealing Justin's fate and starting him on 30 day supply of methadone totally UNSUPERVISED, violating the FDA warning to all MDs about Methadone, issued last November.

The staff that was warned do not return my calls and they did not even show in the 2 meetings the VA held between staff and patients to discuss what happened to Justin and how to "improve" the program. This is how they show their respect for someone that fought for them in Iraq. They are nothing but spineless cowards, that murdered my best friend with their negligence and now hiding behind the VA administration. The main 4 people responsible for this tragedy are: DR W, A (the most incompetant social worker in charge of vets with Post Tramautic Stress Disorder),Dr L(Queen Bee of the domiciliary) and P (careless social worker).

But even if the staff were not warned as they claim, there is still a lot of evidence in Justin's VA medical records by previous doctors that he can not properly self medicate and abuses his medications. Why didn't Dr W and L read his medical records??? Isn't this what doctors are supposed to do in an intake??? I'll tell you why; because they see the vets as cattle that needs to be overmedicated in hope they will OD and won't collect their due dissability benefits. Because they see the VA as a source of passive income to finance their hollywood hills pads.

Plus he died under their watch. He went there to get help. He survived Iraq, street drugs and died under the "safe grounds" of VA rehab.

Plus, common sense tells you if you have an addiction to illicit drugs that that same addictive behavior will carry over to prescription drugs.

What is wrong with this picture? Is this United States in 2007 or some 3rd world country ? Even a Tijuana clinic would provide better health care .....

The media exposure is not finished with this VA. Feel free to post this in your blog.

Sincerely,

Dimitris Rentzis

and coincidentally, i found THIS in attytood today