The Nation - News from Oct. 11, 1985

The Veterans Administration may have raised medical and legal risks by allowing doctors to treat patients while their licenses were revoked or otherwise impaired for problems including drug violations and fraud, an internal agency investigation has found. The VA inspector general’s office said it found cases where doctors employed by the VA for performing treatments for the agency were practicing while their medical credentials in one or more states were revoked, suspended, placed on probation, limited or impaired in some way. The report did not reveal how many doctors were involved.