VA PTSD e-mail under scrutiny
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Last week I mentioned a Military Times story about an e-mail written by the coordinator of a Veterans Administration post-traumatic stress disorder suggesting that VA doctors not diagnose PTSD as a way of saving money.
Now comes an Associated Press report noting that the galling e-mail has raised the ire of a couple of U.S. Representatives, who are demanding and investigation. Hopefully, this will lead to a real effort to ensure that the estimated 30 percent of veterans suffering from PTSD receive effective treatment and all of the benefits they deserve.
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ptsd a wound of the mind but according to our military in order to receive a purple heart you must be wounded. Now last week a article was published by a doctor claiming that a possibility that if a puple heart was given it would help people who have ptsd. A medal not a purple heart could help. Any reconition a medal if it could help relieve the pain and stop these people from doing harm to them selfs would help. There is no easy answer but if the medical people feel it might help why not see if some sort of medal is given until the military came review this problem further