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• Thursday, December 21, 2006 06:20 PM

  thank you, Ebonius

  ...for exposing the nastiness of the Bush assault on Veterans' mental health treatment.

  I'm sorry to hear about the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Altho' I guess it's technically private, it has a sterling reputation as part of the National Academy of Sciences and is largely government funded. But after some of the crap that's gone on at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and various government science panels, I guess I need to accept that IOM can be tampered with, too. Most of the National Academies' publications are available for free online at www.nap.edu (or at least until someone takes that away, too).

  The American Psychiatric Association puts out the DSM, and I had thought that most psychiatric diagnoses were considered valid for coverage purposes if done according to DSM, so I'm thinking that even had IOM altered PTSD criteria, it might not influence coverage issues. Of course, an IOM report could influence APA, and a new DSM is due out, I think. Glad to hear Senator Obama intervened.

  Nicholson & Bush's treatment of veterans is not only cruel but lays bare their fundamental duplicity and untrustworthiness (because their "system" is basically one of mistrust), IMHO.

  —haxxie Read haxxie's other letters
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