Beyond The Battlefield: Unprepared For Wave Of Severely Wounded, Bureaucracy Still Catching Up

A decade of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has left thousands of young Americans suffering with severe pain from amputated limbs, burned flesh, lacerations, shrapnel punctures and traumatic brain damage, injuries that kept them in intensive care for months or years. Yet military doctors and nurses felt they were “ill prepared” to manage their patients’ pain, an Army task force reported in May 2010. To read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/beyond-the-battlefield-8-bureaucracy_n_1010688.html