Trying Some Disney Attitude to Help Cure Walter Reed [View All]

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Source: Washington Post

Fifty medical workers -- doctors, nurses, therapists and administrators among them -- sat in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center gazing at a slide of Donald Duck on a screen.

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A year after a scandal erupted over the long-term treatment of soldiers at the hospital, the Army has turned to Disney for help. "Service, Disney Style" is newly required for all military and other government employees at Walter Reed.

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The Army is paying Disney $800,000 to help revamp attitudes at the hospital.

"It sounds a little odd, but it's true," said Rear Adm. John Mateczun, commander of a joint task force overseeing military medicine in the Washington region.

Washington Post

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/24/AR2008022401993.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

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Seems 'we' want the staff at Walter Reed to do more with less but with a 'Disney' attitude.

Maybe Donald Duck needs to go to Congress or the Pentagon where the 'leaders' learned in hearings the reasons for deplorable conditions at Walter Reed.