European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 3f, 1987 the stars and stripes Santa is still re us mail. If you Haven 1 seen your watching because he is trying them All out As Sonn As possible. Santa has received idlers from Klul Uttmi my Minu s in Page 3 info s sf/7/ Reading letters from fit link to Exchange ideas audience in Tokyo Hunt screen showing a Kim As citizens from the two countries exe huge opinions so a Prtt Gram called to  the pro Gram will air to Japan in late january. A pathologist reports errors made at facility Roseburg Ore. Of a Patho Logist ill a veterans administration hos Pital has filed a complaint with a Federal Board alleging that medical blunders have killed and maimed patients in the Roseburg facility. The oregonian newspaper of Portland reported sunday that or. Cameron e. Berry Scal a complaint in september tothe . Merit systems Protection Board. The Board receives allegations of misconduct in Federal agencies and arranges investigations while barring reprisals against the informants. Perry c. Norman director of the Roseburg veterans administration med ical be plot declined to discuss Berry complaints in detail but said no major medical malpractice was detected in repeated reviews of the Hospital. Berry chief of the Hospital s depart ment of Laboratory services said he had complained to the Board after trying since 1984 to get the veterans administration to act. He told the Board in a letter thai his efforts to Call attention to the cases at the 342-bcd Hospital had resulted in what he Felt were disciplinary actions Pinsi him. As pathologist Berry performs autopsies and Laboratory studies to determine the circumstances of patients deaths an to identify disease in patients still living. Most of the cases cited by Berry involved allegations of Clumsy or ill founded surgery. On several occasions Berry said organs such As lungs and colons were removed needlessly m cases of be Nign diseases misdiagnosed As cancer. He suggested that some of the errors were the result of omissions of Standard tests before or during surgery. Berry contended that Are particular surgeon who was not identified a the Oreg orsian had committed arveral of Ike errors. The cues Berry described Eie Treain Between i and 1936. He Laid be would have submitted Itske but int cutoff from further Access to re cont i would say Bat if the allegation that you Are referring to hate been staed in the Psul and have come to my men lion through the Popw i Artuh or whatever i am confident thai they have been reviewed and where Aston indicated appropriate 3d Ion an made said or. W. Paul cd it Cal. Cos Tel of the Hospital s medical it Iff. Berry received a memorandum front Nichotu on aug. 27 saying i hot three a inspection teams had reviewed Hii Ai j nations during the past to Sears ant Bod failed to confirm them. The oregonian said Nicho Abo �n5wa memo to Berry in sepia Mocer Fatti by Learned of the comp aim car Auer of Cimon insubordination. In hid mar Oren or dered the locks Shane a on Echt to fic and ordered him to Nock in the a i Paul Library writing a new ii if is Nutce program for fee patrol Obj Dysput Mcnol. Mary j. Kollodge to Btry if i jew Calist at the a s regional office Sta Francisco Laid Berry was or a Jurf be cause he Hado l mba shied 2n Kauai re port on his department s Ance program by he my v later m september said per. Nichotu ordered Berry 10 a Mario examination by s a  a Seattle. Berry ref Ukaj i might be crazy but pm Nat Fesa crazy he said. Attempts to mend its health care syst by ill his Lull ill Mill i Washington not at Loti Iii Gest head aches suffered in the Pentagon Hiis Bacn Lilily for the medical care of 10 million a copy peacetime and for the wartime treatment of men an women wounded in . Sec related medical stories on Page 9. By Law he million members of the armed forces and their 2.8 million dependents Are entitled to free medical care As Are 5 million More retired military people dependents and widows. That free medical care is a Strong Point used b recruiters. But the military system that provides peacetime medical care has been strained. Department of sense official say. Overcrowded military Hospi i to treat 50 million outpatients a year. Cos a the overflow to civilian doctors a a Spitali approaches s2 billion a year. A jew Jalily has been criticized in highly Public a rates of malpractice. As for combat Mccomb Elsenior officials testified last year that  doctors nurses Fiel hospitals us Jones and transport the armed forces could a Hor Only three of every 10 people wounded in conventional , a secret audit of . Military medical facile system to or. Ocial. Arden to ties in Europe done by the Dod s inspector Genera reported last month that All major deficiencies would not be corrected until 1992 or 1993" because Large sums have been spent on arms and not enough on Cal equipment and supplies. The european Wulgart had no immediate comment Day on the still for All its