dr. john daigh and it dr. samuel foote and dr. katherine mitchell know what i will be talking about.r those of you who do not know, when you are in training you present cases to staff and they critique your care of the cases. i had a chance to review many of these cases and to draw the conclusion, dr. john daigh, and maybe it is the criteria, it had no affect on the outcome of the patients, that is outrageous. you would have lost both lambs if you try to convince the staff member when i was a staff member. think the question i posed to you in one of these cases, if this were your family member, yours, just like case number 29 that had congestive heart failure, your dad, would you be happy with the explanation you just gave of his death? secondly, would you accept that? my suspicion is no because you know that if your dad had gotten his allergy testing and a defibrillator the outcome may have been different which is why we put these devices and to prevent sudden cardiac death. case number seven, this one the va just got lucky on. a guy in his mid-60s comes in to see a doctor with ches

dr. john daigh, jr. assistant inspector general for health care inspections, miss linda halliday, assistant inspector general for audits and valuations. miss maureen regan, counselor to inspector general, and larry reinkemeyer. thank you so much for your work and thank you for being with us. the mic is yours. >> mr. chairman, ranking member burr, and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the results of the ig's extensive work at the phoenix va health care system. our august 26th report expands upon information previously provided in the interim report and includes information on the reviews by oig clinical staff of patient medical records. the oig examined the medical records and other information for 3,409 veteran patients which included 293 deaths and identified 28 instances of clinically significant delays in care associated with access or scheduling. of these 28 patients, 6 were deceased. in addition, we identified 17 cases of care deficiencies that were unrelated to sche

dr. john daigh jr. assistant inspector general for health care inspections. mrs.linda holliday, assistant inspector general for audits and evaluation. maureen regan, counsel for the inspector general and larry rinkmyer, director of the kansas city office of audits for the office of inspector general. we are also going here from doctor samuel foote, former va physician at phoenix the health care system, and doctor catherine mitchell, current whistleblower and medical director for the iraq and afghanistan post-deployment center at the phoenix va health care system. i would ask the witnesses now to please stand so that we may swear you in. if you would, raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to provide is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. you may be seated and let the record reflect that all of the witnesses affirmed that they would, in fact, tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. all of your complete written statements will be made a part of this heari