Durbin, Obama want VA to explain deaths at Marion hospital
Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama want the secretary of Veterans Affairs to explain how a surgeon with a history of malpractice complaints in Massachusetts was hired at a VA medical facility in Southern Illinois. The senators wrote to VA Secretary R. James Nicholson on Monday, calling the hiring of Dr. Jose Veizaga-Mendez at the Marion VA Medical Center “extremely distressing.” Veizaga-Mendez,
