Army Doctors Doing Something…
What exactly they are doing now is uncertain…not even they know what it is they are trying to say. Or maybe they do and are just unwilling to say it. Or maybe they are struggling with trying to find a happy middle ground upon which to meet thousands of injured soldiers suffering from mental trauma. I don’t know.
Many of you will note that since the beginning of both wars our military has seen a high survival rate of head injury victims. Some would call this a good thing. But many of the survivors are plagued with problems; memory loss, lack of sleep, irritability, headaches, and a slew of other problems related to head trauma.
At first doctors were pinning the blame of physical injury more than they were blaming post-traumatic stress disorder. Now, I’m not a doctor, but even I can tell you that physical injury to the head and brain, and a myriad of mental disorders bear many resemblances. Again, not a doctor.
Personally I think that the Pentagon and the Army (in particular) are tired of dealing with the costly after-effects of this war. I’ve no fucking idea what the cost of brain surgery is, or what the cost of dealing with injury to the brain is, but it must be cheaper than dealing with mental disorders.
A guy that claims his problems are directly related to physical injury to the cranium will more than likely press for medical care. But if the Army and its shithead docs can prove, or at least, make a believable case that the symptoms suffered are related to the mental condition known as PTSD (which, we should all note, the Army flatly denied having any effect what-so-ever on soldiers) they can send the soldier off to an occupational therapist, or shrink or what ever the fuck ever you want to call them. In other words, I think the Army is looking for the cheap way out (once more, still, continuously). Then again, I’m not a doctor, I’m not a shrink and I’m not sitting there watching these soldiers come back from Iraq fucked six ways from Sunday.
Anyhow, here is the link and I am out.