Tag Archives: HCV Decisions

Army images: HCV extrahepatic manifestations

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Laura

A current online article, Hepatitis C, by Sandeep Mukherjee (et al.) provides a good overview of HCV and is worth bookmarking here. The images from Walter Reed Army Medical Center Dermatology, slides 7-48, convey potential effects of HCV on skin/mucosa … Continue reading →

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BVA–HAV SPREAD BY HAVING SEX; HCV?NOT SO MUCH

Posted on October 12, 2012 by asknod

How’s this for the most defective diagnosis in the history of Hep. Keep in mind that Wonder Woman had to go back to college to get this right. Exactly which college is not specified. The examiner provided an addendum report in … Continue reading →

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BVA–vA’S MOST EXCELLENT GRAYBAR HOTEL COMPUTER

Posted on October 12, 2012 by asknod

I have to say that some in the past doubted my word that vA was very inquisitive about your life post-service and often goes afield looking for you or a footprint in the sand to show your passing. The CAVC … Continue reading →

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BVA–ST. PETE VETS GET NO RESPECT

Posted on October 10, 2012 by asknod

I leave you with this one tonight. Vet goes to Subic Bay. Being typical Navy, he cavorts with prostitutes and gets tattoos. Vet has HCV flu-type symptoms several times in Subic Bay after cavorting exercises. Vet comes down with HCV … Continue reading →

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BVA– BUM’S RUSH

Posted on October 9, 2012 by asknod

How many times are we told we do not have the medical expertise to opine on the etiology of where our disease came from or what particular risk was the culprit? Try this one on for size. Vet partied hearty … Continue reading →

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BVA–NO TEST FOR HCV IN 72=SPECULATION

Posted on October 6, 2012 by asknod

I couldn’t think how to communicate this decision logic in 30 words or less hence the speculation header. Try this logic on for size. First, the vA examiner reads the file and concluded the Vet never had hep in service. Someone … Continue reading →

BVA– DIRTY JETGUNS = HCV

Posted on October 6, 2012 by asknod

This isn’t a snowball rolling downhill yet but it certainly is a banner year for HCVets claiming jetguns. What’s unique about this is that several VA examiners is saying it. The Vet has just dragged in not one but two good nexus … Continue reading →

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BVA– CUE BY ST. PETE”S RO (4th TIME)

Posted on October 6, 2012 by asknod

You get that warm, fuzzy, content feeling about your Regional Office when they keep committing CUE and the Board keeps remanding it via the 59th RO (AMC or Appeals Management Center). Its now 2012 and they’ve been playing pingpong with it since … Continue reading →

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BVA– STDS = 98% WILLFUL MISCONDUCT

Posted on October 5, 2012 by asknod

This is pathetic. When they did it to WGM down in Houston, I thought of it as an aberration-stupid but otherwise just a bad hair day for the rater. What we all forget is that the big cheese DRO had to … Continue reading →

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BVA–ASKNOD GOES TO DC AND LOSES!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by asknod

Yep. Here I am. I thought I hit this one out of the park. What was I thinking? Apparently they do not allow new evidence to be submitted during the appeal. If they do then they owe me some serious … Continue reading →