VA disavows Teague doctor’s e-mail
Washington Post WASHINGTON - The physician in charge of the post-traumatic stress disorder program at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Center in Temple told staff members to refrain from diagnosing PTSD because so many veterans were seeking government disability payments for the condition. “Given that we are having more and more compensation seeking veterans, I´d like to suggest that you refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out,” Norma Perez wrote in a March 20 e-mail to mental-health specialists and social workers at the VA Center in Temple. Instead, she recommended that they “consid...