Panel Calls for 'Complete Overhaul' at Walter Reed

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WASHINGTON -- An independent panel assessing dilapidated facilities and red tape for wounded Iraq war veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Wednesday issued a sweeping indictment of leadership failures, inadequate training and staffing shortages.

The panel, headed by two former secretaries of the Army, Togo D. West Jr. and John O. Marsh Jr., found that a high standard of care for troops when they are first evacuated from war zones and hospitalized falls apart when they become outpatients, with a "breakdown in health services" and "compassion fatigue" on the part of overworked staff.

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Panel Calls for 'Complete Overhaul' at Walter Reed

The report called the current system for assessing soldiers' disabilitie...

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