I read the story and it got me pi$$ed off. I would expect this type of behavior from some third world banana republic, not America. Look, I may not like how the department of Offense uses the troops, but they should at least take better care of them. Without malpractice litigation, who is going to make sure that doctors and nurses don't have a "so what if we f_ck up, they can't touch us anyway attitude".

I think that anyone considering going into the military should read this article and talk to a vet, before that make that decision. They don't tell you about that when they're telling you to accelerate your life

This is scary. Seems like another case of the rules for government being different than the rules for the rest of us.

Wonder if the doctrine applies to veterans. A number of years back Mrs. Chevydog's father died in a Veteran's hospital on Long Island. Neither she nor anyone in her family was told of what, just that he died; don't think that to this day anyone has seen a death certificate. Her only clue is that when they went to arrange for the body to be shipped to Arlington she got a glimpse of notes that said "might be ca." Supposedly he was being treated for calcium deficiency. The note could relate to that, as well as to possibly cancer. Don't know how much it matters after all these years; but it would be nice to have some certainty.