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Friday, 11 May 2007
Dead Marine is the real father of Anna Nicole's baby
Posted By palisadespro at 1:37 AM
 

 

Does Dr. Michael Kussman deserve to be promoted to undersecretary for health care at the VA?  He knew about the Walter Reed scandal in 2004.  He knew about the $3 billion shortfall in 2005.  Nicholson keeps rewarding failure as if his goal is to destroy VA.

Anna Nicole died of a self-administered overdose of prescription drugs.  Marine combat veteran Justin Bailey, 27, also died of a self-adminstered overdose while he was a patient at the West Los Angeles VA medical facility.  As a nation, we obsessed about Anna Nicole.  As a nation, we have a duty to keep veterans like Justin alive.  His story needs to be told and the VA healthcare system needs to be fixed.  And the people like Dr. Michael Kussman, who failed to maintain the system, must not be promoted.

Marine combat veteran Justin Bailey never met Anna Nicole Smith.  They both died of self-administered overdoses of prescription medicine.  Justin never posed for nude photographs, never married for money and did not leave behind any illegitimate children.  He served his country in Iraq.  Doesn't his story deserve to be told? 

In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on April 25, 2007, Tony Bailey, Justin's father, said "Despite warnings from friends and family and notations in his medical record that Justin had a tendency to over-medicate himself on prescription drugs, the LA VA hospital determined that after a mere two weeks at their hospital that he had the ability to self administer medications. The day before he died, he was given five different prescriptions in dosages of 14, 15 and 30 days."

 KUSSMAN'S CONFIRMATION HEARING IS TO BE SCHEDULED SOON.  WRITE YOUR SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT HIM.

 
Posted By palisadespro at 1:37 AM
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20 Jun 2007
Send an emailDimitris Rentzis
Ironically I knew Howard Stern, Anna Nicole's attorney. I was also Justin Bailey's best friend and pursuaded him to do his rehab at the West LA VA (and now I have greatly regreted it). I was afraid he might overdose in Las Vegas from the drug addiction he developed right after he came back from Iraq. When Justin told me they are puting him on Methadone I went bezerk. I researched Methadone last September right when Anna Nocole's son died from accidental Methadone OD. I called Justin's doctor (Dr. Alfred West) and his social worker Collette Archibald and alerted them that he could overdose very easy and that he was there for drug rehab NOT pain management. I told them that Methadone and Benzos and anti-depressants don't mix and Justin has a history of not properly self medicating. I WAS IGNORED. Their negligence killed Justin. Justin suffered a non fata OD from the Methadone and ended up in ER SIX weeks before he died. Again call his social worker Collette Archibald and tell her this is "a wake up call" and she needs to take action and notify his new doctor because she could be saving his life. Again, she ignored me.

She was busy decorating her profile and pictures on her "myspace.com"account. Now I call the doctor and the social worker and they HANG UP the phone on me. The othe vets in that VA hosptal told me that the VA administration (mr. Dorman and Norman) instructed them to not talk to the media and especially me. The VA is not making expample out of Dr. west and social worker collette Archibald. They continue to employ them and reward them for their negligence. Idiocy and incompetance at its best. Poor Collette, she had to pull her profile from myspace soon after Justin's death.
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