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16% of combat medical personnel hit by PTSD.(Psychiatry)
ATLANTA -- Medical personnel returning from combat deployment experience rates of post-traumatic stress disorder only slightly below those of returning soldiers, a study has shown.
Nearly 16% of medical personnel from one U.S. military hospital who had been deployed to the setting of large-scale, ongoing, armed conflict reported symptoms consistent with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a voluntary, anonymous survey, said Tonya T. Kolkow, M.D., of Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Whether a consequence of their exposure to battle scenes and wounded soldiers or a concern for their own safety and potential injury, "these individuals experience rates of PTSD …
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