Adverse Events

9 answers we'd like to have regarding Maj Hasan and the Fort Hood shootings:

1. Reports described Hasan as a non-traditional medical student who had experience as prior enlisted. Were his academic credentials appropriate for USUHS?
2. Some reports suggested Hasan struggled academically at USUHS during medical school. If this was the case why was he allowed to graduate and why was he allowed to go straight into a residency without a GMO tour?
3. A very negative evaluation authored by Hasan's psychiatry residency program director was published by a variety of news outlets. Why was he allowed to graduate residency?

This week the national media is covering the story of an airman who experienced a bad outcome after a routine laproscopic surgery at Travis Air Force Base. A comprehensive account of the tragedy authored by Mark Norris was published in The Dallas Morning News:

What should have been a routine medical procedure has turned into a life-threatening ordeal for Airman Colton Read and his family.