Civilians Must Join With DoD and VA to Care for Service Members
“The military is doing everything it can to help soldiers dealing with the invisible wounds of this long war, but it’s still not enough,” retired U.S. Army psychiatrist Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, M.D., M.P.H., told Psychiatric News at APA’s 2012 annual meeting in Philadelphia in a video interview. The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs must do more to ensure access to mental health care for returning troops, but so must the academic and civilian worlds of medicine, she said. Watch the video.
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