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You might have seen on this blog that I have received marvelous service from the massive U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical operation.<\/p>\n

I enrolled about a half-dozen years ago at the Thomas Creek VA Medical Center in Amarillo. It took me about 20 minutes to get signed up, after which the admitting officer said simply: “Welcome aboard.”<\/p>\n

I received great care there. It was timely. The medical staff is always courteous. I rarely had to wait for anything.<\/p>\n

Here is what I wrote shortly after enrolling at the VA in Amarillo:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2013\/05\/better-late-than-never\/<\/p>\n

Then we moved to the Metroplex. I have switched my enrollment to the Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center in Bonham. The early verdict? It’s still great.<\/p>\n

I went for a routine checkup this past week. The doctor asked me if I had any concerns. I mentioned that I have these “skin tags” on my neck. I told her I want them removed.<\/p>\n

“You will have to go to our VA clinic in Dallas,” she said. Fine. I’ll do it.<\/p>\n

As I checked out of the Rayburn center, a young secretary took my information and said I should expect a call to set up an appointment in Dallas. Great. Have a good day.\u00a0I got the call later in the week. I set up an appointment for this morning to have those annoying “tags” removed.<\/p>\n

Here’s where it gets really stellar.<\/p>\n

They told me to report 30 minutes prior to my 11 a.m. appointment. I drove this morning from Princeton to south Dallas \u2026 via McKinney. I got to the massive VA complex in Dallas. I blundered my way around the chaotic complex, parking finally in a covered garage. I walked into the main entrance and asked the receptionist: “Where is Building Two?”<\/p>\n

“You are standing in Building Two,” he told me. Well, OK, then. I am living right.<\/p>\n

I took the elevator to the clinic where I was told to report. I checked in. The young man behind the counter said I’d be called in for blood pressure testing prior to the doc’s visit. Fine. I waited about, oh, 8 minutes.<\/p>\n

They called me in. The nurse took my BP, weighed me and escorted me to an exam room. At this point it was about 10:45 a.m., 15 minutes prior to my appointment.<\/p>\n

Then a young man in physician’s scrubs walked in and said, “I’m sorry, I have another procedure to do before I get to you.” No worries.<\/p>\n

He returned at 11:10 a.m. Dang! My appointment was for 11! He was 10 whole minutes late!\u00a0He took care of the issue I had. He told me to call if I had any problems. Roger that.<\/em><\/p>\n

I walked out of the building at 11:25 a.m. and headed straight for the house.<\/p>\n

With all of this reported to you, I hereby declare categorically that my pre-paid<\/em> medical plan obtained through the Department of Veterans Affairs remains a stellar benefit.<\/p>\n\n

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You might have seen on this blog that I have received marvelous service from the massive U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical operation. I enrolled about a half-dozen years ago at the Thomas Creek VA Medical Center in Amarillo. It took me about 20 minutes to get signed up, after which the admitting officer said … Continue reading Still an ardent fan of the VA medical services<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1356,8820,4794,5077],"class_list":["post-38209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-department-of-veterans-affairs","tag-sam-rayburn-memorial-veterans-center","tag-thomas-creek-va-medical-center","tag-va"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38212,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38209\/revisions\/38212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}