Fibromyalgia is one of the buzziest (and most controversial) medical issues of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It has rapidly gone from being an "it's all in your head" obscure condition to an increasingly diagnosed one. Symptoms include...

How does a Veteran get service-connected for VA disability compensation? It’s a pretty common question, and we teach all of our new employees that a Veteran has to have a disability that was either diagnosed in service or made worse by...

The VA’s online healthcare portal, My HealtheVet, is about to get a major facelift that will help veterans access their records, communicate with VA medical professionals and fill prescriptions more easily. This revamp will include improvements based on information gathered...

If I were to travel back in time four years to do one thing to better prepare myself for a career in Veteran’s Disability, I would have taken a couple of classes in anatomy and physiology. I think learning more...

If you’re enrolled in the VA’s healthcare program, you may not see any advantage that Medicare can have for you. But experts, not to mention the VA itself, recommend taking advantage of Medicare once you become eligible for a myriad...

Veterans, are you currently taking advantage of the My HealtheVet system? If not, you may be able to save time and money through their online mail-order prescription delivery system like more than 57,000 veterans are doing. The website offers four...

Earlier this month, we talked about the Veterans Choice Program, which gives eligible veterans the option of civilian healthcare. However, new reports show that the amount of veterans who are actually taking advantage of this program is significantly lower than...

Unfortunately there’s a price veterans pay when seeing a doctor or being treated at a hospital outside of the VA network—any prescriptions come with a wait time of at least 2-4 weeks while the VA evaluates the doctors’ notes to...

Let me start this blog off by stating that I don’t know much about healthcare. In no way is this blog post meant to serve as a “how to” guide for VA health care. However, yesterday while I was messing...

Have you ever struggled to understand something that so many people you know grasp so quickly? I will admit that I find myself in this type of situation often. For instance, when I competed in speech and debate in high...