Google AI
NewsPronto

 

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

Veterans' health care: doctors outside the VA need to know more about the veterans they treat

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageCivilian doctors might not know that their patients have served in the military. In this photo Marines march around the World Trade Center memorial after participating in a memorial run in 2012.MarineCorps NewYork/Flickr, CC BY

Each year the military discharges over 240,000 veterans to reintegrate into civilian society. It’s a professional...

Read more: Veterans' health care: doctors outside the VA need to know more about the veterans they treat

More Articles …

  1. Woody Guthrie, 'Old Man Trump' and a real estate empire's racist foundations
  2. Confessions of a MOOC professor: three things I learned and two things I worry about
  3. The hottest year on record signals that global warming is alive and well
  4. Movies and myths about human trafficking
  5. Europe's failed response to refugee crisis risks fraying local labor markets
  6. Gossip is a social skill – not a character flaw
  7. How Chinese mix of frugality and risk-taking is driving global stock markets wild
  8. California's Aliso Canyon methane leak: climate disaster or opportunity?
  9. Picasso the...sculptor? Disputed purchase brings attention to lesser-known aspect of his art
  10. Mental health care for prisoners could prevent rearrest, but prisons aren't designed for rehabilitation
  11. New genetically engineered American chestnut will help restore the decimated, iconic tree
  12. U.S. laws protect police, while endangering civilians
  13. Fulfilling Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream: the role for higher education
  14. Cyberattack on Ukraine grid: here's how it worked and perhaps why it was done
  15. Great night for Sanders could be turning point in race
  16. Knowledge comes from death’s release: Blackstar recalls David Bowie’s influence on goth
  17. Is Bernie Sanders really a socialist? And how could he like Denmark?
  18. Basic income for all could lift millions out of poverty – and change how we think about inequality
  19. The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF's Klaus Schwab leave out?
  20. If we want medicine to be evidence-based, what should we think when the evidence doesn't agree?
  21. How do you build a mirror for one of the world's biggest telescopes?
  22. Four quotes from the sixth GOP presidential debate, explained by experts
  23. Why presidential debates need real-time fact-checking
  24. To cut emissions faster, U.S. should ditch tax credit-based subsidies for renewable energy
  25. Under the spell of a generator's thrum, a Faulkner masterpiece was born
  26. Race and racism after Obama: where do we go from here?
  27. Are Powerball drawings and 'Quick Pick' numbers really random?
  28. Attack on unions shows why we need a new social contract governing work
  29. If being too clean makes us sick, why isn't getting dirty the solution?
  30. In a driverless future, what happens to today's drivers?
  31. Obama's final State of the Union: scholars react
  32. Odds are $1.5 billion Powerball winner will end up bankrupt
  33. What Marco Rubio's heels say about fashion – and height – in American politics
  34. Thinking innovatively about the risks of tech innovation
  35. Can businesses succeed in a world of corruption (without paying bribes)?
  36. What is the right response to North Korea's fourth nuclear test?
  37. Are plugs for pizza a breach of journalistic ethics?
  38. Can schools punish students for off-campus, online speech?
  39. Explainer: Why can't anyone tell me how much this surgery will cost?
  40. Could online 'slacktivists' actually help Making a Murderer's Steven Avery?
  41. That's what zhe said: mx-ing up the language of gender
  42. Congress' bipartisan Christmas gifts will lead to ballooning deficits
  43. Federal control of western land: two perspectives
  44. What makes a 'smart gun' smart?
  45. US–Saudi relations and the search for leverage
  46. The twisted roots of U.S. land policy in the West
  47. Can we curb the opioid abuse epidemic by rethinking chronic pain?
  48. What Pantone's colors of 2016 mean for the future of design
  49. How the homeless population is changing: it's older and sicker
  50. The Paris Agreement: the first _local_ global environmental pact