By Michael Volpe
A Veterans Administration researcher used actors and pressured veterans into participating in a âsecret shopperâ-style project, and now the House Veteran Affairs Committee is investigating how the agency spent $900,000 for the faked study.
The head of the study, Dr. Saul Weiner, professor of medicine, pediatrics and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, admitted actors were hired to portray veterans, according to a letter from the committee chairman, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo.
âThe actors wore hidden microphones to capture the physician-patient interaction; feigned symptoms that took real appointment slots from veterans and tied up facility resources, such as lab tests, while health-care professionals sought answers to the actorâs fake maladies,â Coffman said.
The letter was directed to Carolyn Clancy, the interim under secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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