This particular doctor has so many patients that it takes him months to make his rounds. And his visits take him thousands of miles from his office, a grey building in Washington, D.C. a block from the White House. Dr. Paul Ramsey Hawley, medical director of the Veterans Administration, has more patients than any physician in the world's history ever had—about 4,000,000.
That is the number, of the 18 million living U.S. veterans of three wars, who will get V.A. doctoring this year. Five hundred thousand of them will be in V.A. hospitals. The annual medical bill: $500 million. And V.A.'s...
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