Doctors of Defense: Whistleblower documents expose how the military handles medical mistakes [Video]

(InvestigateTV) — When a recurring shoulder injury flared up for Jordan Way, the 23-year-old’s parents encouraged him to wait until he came home to have surgery and had a doctor they knew and trusted. Way originally hurt himself years earlier, playing high school football in Maryland. Going under the knife across the country in California, so far from family, made his parents uneasy.

“He kept saying to me, ‘Mom, I’m going to be okay. I trust them’,” his mother Suzi Way said.

It made sense. Way, a Navy Corpsman stationed at Bush Naval Hospital in Twentynine Palms, California would have medical care provided by his colleagues at the facility where he worked as a pharmacy tech. He was one of them. Why worry, he told his family.

So, on December 12, 2017, Jordan underwent routine shoulder surgery to repair a minor tear. Four days later, he …