Disband the VA Patient Advocate office and replace with a indepentant Patient Advocate office to help patients.

The VA Patient Advocates work for the VA and Doctors. The Patient Advocates are Federal Employees that can not be held accountable for not siding with the patient as they have a very cushy relationship with the doctors and they do not want lose this relationship. The patient has no rights and no real recourse to resolve mistreatment and how their doctor(s) handle their medical care. To often patient complain and receive no support from them and they make misstatements to the director to minimize the complaint(s) in favor of the hospital and doctors. This leave many patients with no resolve with their complaints.