Memorial Day: Veterans’ medical misadventures

We remember these Iraq veterans who have had medical errors:

Sgt. Michael Boothby
(Delayed treatment)


Corporal Cody Hill
(delayed rehabilitation for extensive burns)


Lance Corporal Jeffrey Lucey, deceased.
(lack of access to services)


Cpl. Casey Owens
(delayed approval of surgery; lack of access to services)



Sgt. John Daniel Shannon
(delayed treatment for traumatic brain injury)


Lance Corporal Michael Stubbs
(delayed diagnosis; lack of access to services)


Staff Sgt. Mark Taylor
(misdiagnosis)


Sgt. Edward Wade
(delayed care for traumatic brain injury)