Athens attorney Lee Atkinson says a $3.23 million settlement he and partner Jim Matthews secured for a Vietnam veteran left paralyzed by a lack of treatment at a South Carolina Veterans Affairs hospital is “evidence of systemic problems” at VA hospitals across the Southeast.

“Veterans keep falling through the cracks. Bad things keep happening to them,” Atkinson said in announcing the federal government’s decision to settle the medical malpractice case.

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