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Investigation into the Blindness of 8 Veterans
In 2009, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Palo Alto, California discovered that Eight United States veterans had suffered varying degrees of blindness when licenses California optometrists treated these veterans for glaucoma. For more information of the California VA investigation, please view the following resources:
California Veterans go Blind Due to Bad Care from Optometrist "Practicing Beyond their Scope."
VA Investigates Glaucoma Patients' Treatment
VA Hospital: State Requests Probe of VA Hospital - 23 Glaucoma Patients Suffer Serious Vision Loss