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Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 23.4.2007 8:58

Lukuisat kroonista borrelioosia sairastavat joutuvat ongelmiin diagnoosin saamisen kanssa. Jatkuvasti kuulee miten ihmisiä ohjataan psykiatrin vastaanotolle silloin kun lääkärit eivät tiedä mitä tehdä eli kun oireet jatkuvat eivätkä normaalit lyhyet antibioottihoidot ole parantaneet tautia. Seuraava artikkeli ei käsittele borrelioosia, mutta valottaa asiaa omalta osaltaan.

"Jon Town oli sotapalveluksessa Irakissa kun pommi räjähti hänen päänsä yläpuolella. Myöhemmin hänen niskastaan poistettiin sirpaleen palanen. Hän menetti kuulonsa, sai masennusta, muistihäiriöitä jne. Sen sijaan että hän olisi päässyt eläkkeelle oikealla diagnoosilla, lääkärit ilmoittivat hänellä olevan persoonallisuushäiriön. Tämän seurauksena hän ei saa eläkettä eikä apua terveydenhoitokuluihin. Asiasta tehdyn selonteon mukaan lukuisille haavoittuneille sotilaille on annettu sama diagnoosi. Näin säästytään maksamasta elämänikäisiä korvauksia."

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How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits
by JOSHUA KORS
[from the April 9, 2007 issue]

Jon Town has spent the last few years fighting two battles, one against his body, the other against the US Army. Both began in October 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq. He was standing in the doorway of his battalion's headquarters when a 107-millimeter rocket struck two feet above his head. The impact punched a piano-sized hole in the concrete facade, sparked a huge fireball and tossed the 25-year-old Army specialist to the floor, where he lay blacked out among the rubble.

"The next thing I remember is waking up on the ground." Men from his unit had gathered around his body and were screaming his name. "They started shaking me. But I was numb all over," he says. "And it's weird because... because for a few minutes you feel like you're not really there. I could see them, but I couldn't hear them. I couldn't hear anything. I started shaking because I thought I was dead."

Eventually the rocket shrapnel was removed from Town's neck and his ears stopped leaking blood. But his hearing never really recovered, and in many ways, neither has his life. A soldier honored twelve times during his seven years in uniform, Town has spent the last three struggling with deafness, memory failure and depression. By September 2006 he and the Army agreed he was no longer combat-ready.

But instead of sending Town to a medical board and discharging him because of his injuries, doctors at Fort Carson, Colorado, did something strange: They claimed Town's wounds were actually caused by a "personality disorder." Town was then booted from the Army and told that under a personality disorder discharge, he would never receive disability or medical benefits.

Town is not alone. A six-month investigation has uncovered multiple cases in which soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits. The conditions of their discharge have infuriated many in the military community, including the injured soldiers and their
families, veterans' rights groups, even military officials required to
process these dismissals. They say the military is purposely misdiagnosing soldiers like Town and that it's doing so for one reason: to cheat them out of a lifetime of disability and medical benefits, thereby saving billions in expenses.

The Fine Print the rest of the article at

http://www.thenatio<WBR>n.com/doc/<WBR>20070409/<WBR>kors