I was contacted by a NY Times reporter earlier today and spoke with her for approximately 45 minutes. I took the army to task on a number of issues including horrendous pay for specialists, lack of adequate support staff, rotating hospital commanders every 2 years, making patients wait in OR holding/clinic while physicians donate urine samples for UAs, lack of communciation between outpatient (i.e AHLTA) and inpatient (i.e Essentris) EMRs as well as assigning surgeons as brigade surgeons for 2 years and then putting them back into the OR claiming that not operating for this amount of time doesn't affect one's skills. I also went on the record stating that a nurse should NEVER be the surgeon general and thus in charge of MEDCOM. I hope this string of articles catches legs and causes some actual change, especially since a former hospital commander and surgeon general have also gone on the record. However, I am skeptical at best but feel like I have done my part by going on the record and giving my name and former position.