Fort Hood’s Killer Shrink: Was He One of the Army Docs Pressured to Misdiagnose PTSD in Soldiers?
Reposted from: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fort-Hood-s-Killer-Shrink-by-Ward-Harkavy-091108-338.html
November 8, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
Perhaps we'll learn as details unfold that Hasan — himself a suicide killer — was one of the Army's psychiatrists and psychologists who were pressured during the first five years of the Iraq War to not diagnose screwed-up soldiers as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead, the Army's doctors were diagnosing soldiers as supposedly having "personality disorder," a pre-existing condition for which they wouldn't qualify for treatment. The military had a financial motive — keep healthcare costs down — in addition to the motive of covering up the huge PTSD problems of returning soldiers.