Sen. Murray releases tally on PTSD review
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter
November 15, 2012
When the Army re-evaluated the cases of 261 veterans who had been denied medical retirement by a Madigan Army Hospital psychiatric team, it found 150 had post-traumatic stress disorder, and 107 had other behavioral-health diagnoses, according to information released by Sen. Patty Murray.
Of 261 service members and veterans who failed to win health retirement when screened by a forensic psychiatric team at Madigan Army Medical Center, 150 were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder when their cases were reviewed by Army behavioral health teams, according to information released this week by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
One hundred seven more of those service members and veterans received adjustment, anxiety, mood or other behavioral-health diagnoses, when their cases were reviewed.
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