[rJohutozsfds]

By Patricia Kime - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Oct 6, 2011 9:34:50 EDT

Someone at the Veterans Affairs Department Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has an odd sense of humor.

On Wednesday, outpatient Tom McCuin, an Afghanistan war veteran, snapped a photo of a hat emblazoned with the phrase: “Warning: This Vet is Medicated for your Protection,” available for sale in the lobby gift shop at the hospital.

He then posted it on Facebook and Twitter.

“My first reaction was, ‘Oh, that’s pretty funny,’ because I have a tendency to laugh at inappropriate things,” McCuin, an Army Reserve officer .... Read the rest of the story here.

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What do you think about the hat? Was the VA right to quickly remove it?

[soryalomop]

Inappropriate, yes, funny, yes again. I would say, anywhere else but in a VA hospital that hat would sell like hotcakes.

[irrawnWab]

By Patricia Kime - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Oct 6, 2011 9:34:50 EDT

Someone at the Veterans Affairs Department Medical Center in Washington, D.C., has an odd sense of humor.

On Wednesday, outpatient Tom McCuin, an Afghanistan war veteran, snapped a photo of a hat emblazoned with the phrase: “Warning: This Vet is Medicated for your Protection,” available for sale in the lobby gift shop at the hospital.

He then posted it on Facebook and Twitter.

“My first reaction was, ‘Oh, that’s pretty funny,’ because I have a tendency to laugh at inappropriate things,” McCuin, an Army Reserve officer .... Read the rest of the story here.

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What do you think about the hat? Was the VA right to quickly remove it?

I like how the guy said "at first" he laughed...until his wife said something. Would he have done the same thing if his wife hadn't been with him? (Aren't a lot of people with PTSD medicated)?

But yeah it could be seen as inappropriate but a lot of inappropriate things are funny. It just sounds like that guy only said anything because his wife was there.

[Dumpishchaism]

The hat is funny, but it is inappropriate...especially in a VA hospital.

[FateHostera]

I think its funny. I think there are few medicated vets out there that would wear it.

[Grennios]

Its inappropriate, thats why its funny. That it was sold in a VA gift shop, even funnier but I get why they pulled it, the military needs to keep that stick tightly wedged up its ass, can't let John Q Public think for a second that we have a sense of humor about ourselves.

[Bounce]

Heh.

So if someone takes Viagra and they wear the hat, does that diminish from the warning label?

[Fetowip]

Heh.

So if someone takes Viagra and they wear the hat, does that diminish from the warning label?

Viagra is non-formulary in the VA. Levitra is formulary. The VA Med Center where I work doesn't sell that hat, HOWEVER they do have vendors who do sell the hat. VA pharmacies fill a ton of prescriptions. No matter how you look at it, a lot of veterans are medicated. There are some that what the hat says definitely applies.