Pages

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

PTSD and Combat Doctors "I think his soul left on the tarmac in Afghanistan"

This is happening with doctors right here in America. Think about how these doctors face trying to save lives everyday yet seeing so many die on the operating table. Think of what they put themselves through and then think about the fact they are suffering from PTSD as well as taking their own lives.
Returning combat doctors suffering from PTSD
Australia
ABC News
Sally Sara
1 Oct 2013

As thousands of foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan, many soldiers are returning home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. Much of the attention has been focused on infantry troops. But PTSD has also taken a heavy toll on those who were sent to Afghanistan to save lives.
MARK COLVIN: As thousands of foreign troops withdraw from Afghanistan, many soldiers are returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Much of the attention has been focused on infantry troops, but PTSD has also taken a heavy toll on those who were sent to Afghanistan to save lives.

Sally Sara went to Canada for the Foreign Correspondent program on ABC TV to spend time with a trauma doctor haunted by war.

SALLY SARA: The ABC doesn't usually send me to peaceful places like this. I'm driving to a little town called Coaticook in Quebec. I'm here to meet up with a trauma doctor I first met in Afghanistan.
read more here

No comments:

Post a Comment

If it is not helpful, do not be hurtful. Spam removed so do not try putting up free ad.