The Veterans Administration (VA) knowingly hired doctors whose malpractice or disciplinary history should have raised serious concerns with administrators, according to an investigation conducted by USA Today.[1] The newspaper documented several instances in which a VA hospital or clinic made an unsuitable or illegal hire. The most egregious of these involved neurosurgeon John Henry Schneider, who “racked up more than a dozen malpractice claims and settlements in two states”—some of such consequence that h