“The widow of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide while in outpatient care for depression at a Veterans Affairs hospital has sued the federal government for negligence. Tiera Woodward, 26, claims in her lawsuit that her late husband, Donald, sought treatment at a VA hospital in Lebanon, Pa., after three failed suicide attempts but wasn’t seen by a psychiatrist for more than two months. She says doctors were slow to diagnose her husband with major depression, and that once the diagnosis was made, a psychiatrist failed to schedule a follow-up meeting with her husband after he informed the doctor he had gone off his medication. Donald Woodward killed himself in March 2003 at age 23. ‘I intend to make them make changes,’ said Donald Woodward’s mother, Lori Woodward.” (10/08/08)