If you are in the navy and you have a medical condition do you have the right to request medical board?

Question

My husband recently found out he has hemolytic anemia. Does his Navy doctor have to by navy law send his info to med board. If not can he request med board and do they have to give it to him. Also has anyone every heard of a sailor getting medically discharged with hemolytic anemia.

Answer 1

He has a condition which was disqualifying for his enlistment in the first place. He doesn't have to request a medical board. His attending physician will do that. Since his is a pre-existing condition, he will not be awarded any disability but will be discharged under honorable conditions in accordance with the authority cited below.
As a side note, this question has been asked repeatedly by you. I think I've given the same answer twice. I'm a retired Navy Medical Department Officer with twelve years of experience in disability evaluation matters. And the answer never changes.

Answer 2

I can't say for sure, and probably no one but a military lawyer can. But when I was in the Air Force I developed a chronic illness and got really poor treatment from the doctors. They wouldn't even acknowledge I was sick. So I went to a civilian doctor who also happened to be a Lt. Col. in the Air Force reserve. He told me that I had a right to demand the medical tests that would prove my condition, and to see a different doctor if my current one refused to help. Then I started getting better medical care and was eventually medically discharged.

So I believe that your husband has a right to get a second opinion from a military doctor if needed. One important tip: Don't take what they say for granted. Military doctors and other officers often say what is expedient or what is best for the Navy from their point of view. If you don't get a satisfactory answer, ask to speak to someone else.

If you can afford it I recommend getting some advice from a lawyer, preferably a civilian lawyer specializing in military law. And if it comes down to it, your husband has a right to be represented by a civilian attorney before the board (In my medical board it was me against the Air Force, with three USAF officers comprising the board, and I was assigned an Air Force lawyer. Guess who won? Despite my doctor's strong support, it wasn't me...).

Good luck with the Navy, and I wish your husband well with his illness.

Answer 3

with a view to be seen for a scientific separation you may desire to have a situation that disallows you to do your interest. This could desire to be documented via Naval medical doctors, and if treatable, you will could desire to fulfill your criminal accountability. I even have been in the process the skill of being medically retired, and that i will make it easier to comprehend this. What you're dealing with now's widely used. verify that whenever you bypass to scientific, you get documentation for each thing. additionally, there is not in common terms one physician making the selection in case you may desire to be discharged. you would be evaluted via your common physician, and then he will write up a med kit that is going to a med board. That med board makes the suited selection. If the board's selection is to medically discharge you, you will not in line with say be out yet. you will bypass on the TDRL (momentary Disabled Retirement record) for 5 years. for the duration of those 5 years, each and every one million one million/2 years you will lower back be reevaluated. Your case will lower back bypass till now a med board and that they'll confirm while you're in good shape for accountability, the place you will then be positioned lower back on lively status, or they confirm which you may desire to be reevaluated lower back in one million one million/2 years wherein case you will nonetheless be on TDRL. ultimately, they could discover that your situation won't exchange and that they'll positioned you on the PDRL (everlasting Disabled Retirement record), wherein you will then be medically retired. It takes awhile. i'm hoping this helps ypu out. As to your Command and Base scientific, in case you do have problems with them use your chain of command that should assist you out. you mustn't be put in a situation that endangers you or your shipmates. ACC(AW/SW) USN ret. one hundred% Disabled