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VA Directive Barring Staff from Diagnosing Troops with PTSD to Cut Costs, Exposed by CREW and VoteVets.org

Thu, 05/15/2008 - 4:22pm | mal contends

This is an outrage.

CREW and VoteVets.org released an e-mail (May 1, 2008) obtained from a Veterans Affairs (VA) employee directing VA staff to refrain from diagnosing soldiers and veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

On March 20, 2008 a VA hospital’s PTSD program coordinator sent the e-mail below to a number of VA employees, including psychologists, social workers, and a psychiatrist stating that due to an increased number of “compensation seeking veterans,” the staff should “refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out” and they should “R/O [rule out] PTSD” and consider a diagnosis of “Adjustment Disorder” instead (.)

- See VA E-mail Obtained via FOIA Request.

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