Posts Tagged ‘60 Minutes’
By jasonmaddox On November 11th, 2014
“It’s integrity, it’s advocacy, it’s respect, it’s excellence. These are the things that we try to do for our veterans.” Those are the words as well as the actions Robert McDonald have taken in his very short time as Secretary of the VA. It appears veterans under the Veteran’s Administration (VA) system of care have…
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By Paul Stone On May 8th, 2013
Sometimes there are feelings and experiences that simply cannot be put into words. Traumatic brain injury is certainly one of those experiences, even though those of us in the field try every day to convey the experience in our attempts to spread awareness. As part of 60 Minutes’ recent exposé into the plight of our…
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By Paul Stone On May 7th, 2013
While the U.S. military has recently lept into traumatic brain injury research and awareness in the wake of the massive numbers of soldiers returning home with TBI, they haven’t always been so proactive. Until very recently, traumatic brain injury has been completely neglected by armed forces health experts as an invisible, and therefore unimportant, injury.…
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