Sec. 5. Improved Research and Development. Read (c) under that Sec. 5 where "...Agencies shall continue ongoing collaborative research efforts, with an aim to enroll at least 100,000 service members by December 31, 2012, and include a plan for long term follow up with enrollees through a coordinated effort with the Department of Veterans Affairs."
Is it time for our vets to relocate or stay to be part of a comprehensive longitudinal mental health study?
100,000 by December 31, 2012
Another government employee jobs program. Shouldn’t the shrinks check the politicians first so we’ll know how many of them are crazy.
It sounds like a way to isolate vets to me by labellibg them as all troubled.
To date it has been a total disaster. Please read about my friend Josh with PTSD: http://saveoursoldiers.org/
I refuse to go to the site. Would you be so kind as to copy the whole thing here?
why are they trying to register all vets as nuts as much as possible?
Bump
oh this is not good at all
I would suggest that vets stay away from this program at all costs. Once you get on their list as “troubled” you will never be able to get off it and you will be subject to future warrant-less actions by government agencies. Find some other method to get help if possible including private insurance, free counseling, churches, etc. This is my opinion based upon experience of others and the way government is functioning today.
Their medical scope has advanced to an amazing degree and today's troops deserve no less.
But mention Vietnam and you'd better be crazy as a loon, homeless, and willing to drool on command...or one those who sat comfy in El Segundo for three years and are now just as comfy gaming the system and thus enjoying the mother of all safety nets.
Those with trouble breathing, sleeping, coping, or simply applying for help need not apply.
Our military is the biggest threat to his total takeover of this nation. Why would anyone believe he wants to do what's best for them?
Keep remembering Brandon Raub.
Ah, don’t get me started!
Shrink here, board certified yada yada yada - In private practice for the past three years after 22 years treating some of the sickest of the sick in all kinds of settings. Pretty darned good at what I do (meds, psychotherapy, TMS).
Just to round out the picture with a little backstory - Hospital Corpsman, shipboard, Gator Fleet, independent duty station, during the latter days of our country’s Viet Nam Adventure: saw some small action off the coasts of Cambodia and South Viet Nam when those countries fell to the Communists under our watch [or shortly after we relinquished our watch to cover our a$$es].
Back to the present: Lots of Navy and other military folks around here where I practice now, and a boatload of Vets who could use my services. The Navy hospital and Triwest/Tricare sends me dependents, which its fine unless I have to deal with their lab - who won’t send me results because I’m not a “Navy doctor” - or their primitive, 1980s-formulary pharmacy - or their pathetically poorly-trained doctors who bad-mouth me to my patients for using proven treatments that get them well. And not one of any of them - lab or pharmacy or doctors - will return my calls or send me lab results or act like I even exist. And the few times I’ve treated active duty personnel - who must get a waiver to come see me after some dissatisfaction or conflict of interest with the military healthcare system - well, let’s just say that what I hear does not inspire confidence.
Shift now to the VA, and magnify all the problems many orders of magnitude.
In my medical school training and psychiatric residency, I did rotations at both inpatient and outpatient VA facilities, and it was always the pits - the worst of the worst healthcare - wherever I was. And it was not the funding, as far as I could tell: it was the attitude. The Federal bureaucracy, in all its glory, involved in healthcare. What a travesty.
When I started my current private practice, I looked into seeing VA patients. Clinically, it was joke, and a grand exercise in headaches and frustration, and financially it was a money-looser. I said no.
And now? No matter what Executive Order Obama signs [extra-Constitutionally], until they give the Vets a voucher to go see the civilian doctor of their choice, and pay for whatever 21st century med that doctor prescribes, they can count me out, and probably count out any doctor worth their salt.
This has a P-U factor that has already reached the moon.
Re-education anyone ..???????????
Since they're going all out to find these 100,000 service members so quickly, maybe they can slip an absentee ballot into the enrollment forms, so they can get to the service members in time to vote?
-PJ