Army Requests PTSD Diagnostic tools that don't "look for Fakers"

[cbelt3]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/...uidelines/

About Damn Time.

[Lemon Drop]

Proud of my Sen. Patty Murray for pursuing this investigation and insisting on changes at Madigan. It all feels like bandaids on a severed limb though, until we stop sending soldiers back to Afghanistan or wherever over and over, without taking care of their mental health needs, this is going to be an ongoing problem.

"In a controversial presentation to colleagues last fall, Dr. William Keppler, then the leader of the Madigan (Army hospital) screening team, said a PTSD diagnosis could cost as much as $1.5 million over the lifetime of a soldier, and he urged staff to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars."

IOW - weed them out. Make the test experience hostile and unpleasant. And that's just what they did.

[cbelt3]

"staff to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars"

Dear. God. If ever there was a picture of medical malfeasance, if would be that sentence. I hope that idiot never sees a patient more evolved than an amoeba.

Oh... Looks like he was relieved at the VA
http://www.stripes.com/scratch/4/psychia...e-1.167746

[RgrF]

If the military now goes back and reviews all rejected claims we may begin to have confidence this is more than a poultice applied to a public black eye.