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From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans

From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans

Update: 2025-09-12
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Dr. Matt Wilyonson, a former Navy orthopedic surgeon and current Chief Medical Officer of Woobie.io, shares his powerful journey from serving 10+ years in the military to becoming a fierce advocate for veterans navigating the broken VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) disability system. The VA is the U.S. government agency responsible for providing healthcare, benefits, and support to military veterans, but as Dr. Wilyonson reveals, it often fails those it's meant to serve. After witnessing firsthand how hardworking service members were being shortchanged by bureaucratic red tape while serving as a primary care doctor for Marines, Dr. Wilyonson made it his mission to help veterans get the disability benefits they've earned through their military service. In this eye-opening conversation, he exposes how the VA systematically denies or minimizes legitimate service-connected injuries and conditions, discusses the hidden epidemic of veteran mental health struggles, and offers hope through his company's honest, membership-based approach to securing proper disability ratings and compensation.

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From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans

From Military Service to VA Benefits Champion: How One Navy Doctor is Fighting the System for Veterans

Pedram Shojai