This is rather sad BVA Appeal in that the Vet could have won this hands down if he had shown up for his C&P/ QTC exam to ascertain the etiology of the psychiatric complaint. He had a valid claim, but he failed to show numerous times to prove it. VA will rate with what you give them, but they get very irritated and tend to believe that maybe your just don’t sufficiently give a shit about your claim if you can’t be bothered to defend it. They went to great lengths to provide him with an opportunity to prove it and he told them via his indifference to get lost and do the rating. That’s exactly what they handed him. He got lazy towards the end and started forging his records which was really dumb. VA keeps records of everything about you and if you cheat, you will get busted. He did. I’m surprised they didn’t give him a all expenses paid Vacation to Ft. Leavenworth for 5 years for attempting to cheat the Govt. He was lucky in that respect, but not so with the claim. We deleted about 75 % of the Legalspeak to get to the meat of the claim. Read on…

http://www.va.gov/vetapp08/Files4/0829233.txt