When A Doctor's Diagnosis Ain't Worth Squat

News and bloggers have been all over this story, but it still boggles my mind that our government can be so callous -- especially when it relates to the very service men and and women that the current administration is always touting in front of us as the reason we must support "the war on terror."

On March 20, 2008 a VA hospital’s PTSD program coordinator sent the e-mail below to a number of VA employees, including psychologists, social workers, and a psychiatrist stating that due to an increased number of “compensation seeking veterans,” the staff should “refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out” and they should “R/O [rule out] PTSD” and consider a diagnosis of “Adjustment Disorder” instead.

That's right. Let's continue to give the big corporate CEO's their "due," but, God forbid, we actually give the soldiers their due.