Legacy of Our Veterans' Military Exposures
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Wounded Veterans Return To Unprepared Medical System

Protecting our veterans' children

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This is the first installment of a three-part series on veteransā€™ health. The second part, which you can find here, deals with mental health. The third part, which you can findĀ here, deals with environmental exposures.

Jarboe arrived back on American soil paralyzed but alive and was able to get the best care the military had to offer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

But less than a year later he was dead from complications of surgery, one of several medical errors that his wife, Melissa Jarboe, documented in a self-published memoirĀ about her husbandā€™s last months.

ā€œIt wasnā€™t the sniper that shot him that killed him,ā€ Melissa Jarboe, of Topeka, said in a recent interview.

Rather, it was a mistake made during a surgery that took place in May 2011 that eventually killed Jamie Jarboe. A surgeon in training nicked Jarboeā€™s esophagus. Dozens of attempts were made over the next nine months to repair the damage. But none of them worked. Jarboe died in March 2012.

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Legacy of Our Veterans' Military Exposures
Widow of a Vietnam veteran exposed to Agent Orange and founder of Agent Orange Legacy.

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