{"product_id":"the-house-of-pain-paperback","title":"The House of Pain - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary John Gentile\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVETERANS ADMINISTRATION'S MISTREATMENT OF WOUNDED VIETNAM VETERANS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my teenage years, I read a novel by H. G. Wells called The Island of Dr. Moreau. The strength of the book lay in its vivid descriptions of the eponymous doctor's shocking treatment of wild animals during his attempts, by means of vivisection, to change them into human beings. In the book, the House of Pain referred to the laboratory in which Moreau conducted his hideous experiments, without any regard for the extraordinary pain that the animals endured under his scalpel. These medical monstrosities were called the Beast Folk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my book, the House of Pain refers to the hospitals and medical centers which the Veterans Administration owns and mismanages. The modern day Moreaus are the indifferent people that the VA employs: administrators, doctors, and medical so-called professionals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was seriously wounded in Vietnam by three bullets and an enemy grenade. I spent thirteen months recuperating in Army hospitals; three of those months I was held firmly in place by traction bars. After I was discharged with a 60% disability rating, I suffered a lifetime of strong discomfort that culminated in severe chronic pain due largely to a sciatic nerve which had been damaged when an enemy bullet shattered my left femur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery bit of this pain could have been eliminated if the VA medical personnel wanted to help me. None did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I mentioned this chronic pain, the doctor who was assigned to treat me threw me out of his office - on two occasions - and on another occasion he had a tantrum, screamed in my ear and called me a dope addict, and fled the office in the middle of the examination, never to return, leaving me all alone in his office. I swear these incidents happened exactly the way I described them in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hospital director supported this behavior and denied my numerous requests to be transferred to a different doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chronic pain clinic prescribed over-the-counter skin cream to treat my chronic sciatic pain. When I complained that the cream did not help, I was kicked out of the clinic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHard to believe? Welcome to VA medical (dis)service.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis modern version of the House of Pain is found in the Veterans Administration's medical centers, in which veterans - chiefly those who suffer from long-time aftereffects of their time spent in Vietnam - are mistreated, misunderstood., and disregarded as yesteryear's forgotten soldiers from a misguided and forgotten war. The inhuman Beast Folk are the VA's medical staff. Most of them, anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have had the misfortune to have experienced firsthand the dire machinations of the VA's apathetic medical system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells it all: from my personal combat actions as a rifleman in the 25th Infantryman Division in Vietnam, to a long-time patient in various Army hospitals, through a lifetime of anguish as a disabled civilian, to my ultimate confrontation with today's Veterans Administration, whose modern banner reads like a quote from W. C. Fields, \"Go away kid, ya bother me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is my story about modern VA medical mistreatment. This is the kind of treatment that today's soldiers can expect to receive if they are ever wounded in combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaveat emptor, as the Romans used to say. Let the buyer beware . . . if you enlist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47334807306425,"sku":"9781883056605","price":39.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/2RXd0DB4kS9781883056605.webp?v=1780494639","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/the-house-of-pain-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}