Veterans give Savannah clinic mixed reviews | savannahnow.com

Whitemarsh Island resident James Livingston is perplexed.

A proud combat veteran, he served his country as a gunner aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II.

Today, the 91-year-old is disillusioned and more than a little befuddled at how the greatest country in the world has allowed its veterans’ health care system to fall into such chaos.

“I never thought I’d live to see something like this mess,” he said.

“It’s very disappointing.”

Some four years ago, Livingston went to the VA Clinic in Savannah with stomach pain.

“The doctor there thought it might be my gall bladder, so they did some tests and sent the results to the hospital in Charleston,” he said. “It took a while, but the VA doctors in Charleston said they didn’t see anything.”

A few days later, Livingston said, he was on the operating table in Savannah where a civilian surgeon removed his gall bladder and treated the gangrene that had begun to set in.

“They just dropped the ball,” he said.

These days, Livingston goes to the VA Clinic in Savannah once a year to get a checkup and refills on his medications. If he’s sick, he spends his Social Security money to go to a doctor in Savannah.

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