There is undoubtedly too much of that, and that was my point, but I also want to point out you don't have to be unable to work to receive benefits for service-connected ailments. You could have a damaged left pinky finger and be able to do just about everything, but if it's due to your military service, you're entitled to some benefit for that.
We could discuss/argue about whether or not that's okay, but right now, that's the rules.
I am okay with it. Whether or not you are able to work is mostly immaterial to me. If your body (or mind) was legit damaged in service to the my country, I don't mind if you get a monthly check. They're not one size fits all....different problems are worth different amounts of money. What you hope for is that the physicians who determine their cases are honest enough to deny instances where it can't be shown that the injury/disease is service-connected but that the rules are fair enough so as not to deny compensation to veterans who truly deserve it. It sounds to me like many of the cases are straightforward enough. But a lot of her patients are continuation cases, where she has to determine if anything has changed and thus change the amount of benefits they receive. All she can really do is make determinations on that....it's next to impossible to get a veteran off of monthly benefits who should've never been granted them, if they've already been service connected. Judges will get all up in their asses about that, and no medical provider wants to get bogged down in legal hassles. And that's if the VA would even agree to cut benefits, which they probably wouldn't. When patients see her and she can tell from their records they should've never been service-connected to begin with, there is virtually nothing she can do about that, except sign off on spending more gub'ment money every month on them.
Every now and then she gets an initial case remanded to her by some judge who doesn't like her medical opinion, and effectively issues one of their own (you know.....with all their medical expertise). Those judges can make her life hell in those cases (and VA contractors like her) for a while and because the VA wants to avoid all that, the VA exerts undue pressure on her in the meantime. She has to stick to her guns and call on the medical board if necessary, because if she service-connected a veteran without good evidence, that's her license on the line and out the window....that judge and the VA wouldn't suffer any consequences.