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VFW Sponsors Patient Summit

At a VFW-sponsored meeting of health-care advocates in June, attendees agreed that VA must focus more time and resources on preventive medical practices. The Patient Advocacy Leaders Summit held in Washington, D.C., attracted almost 100 representatives of more than three dozen medical and veterans groups.

The summit hosted four seminars focusing on traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The TBI seminar noted that more than 20% of the 1.6 million troops who have served in Iraq and Afghaistan had experienced a bomb blast. However, better body armor, medical evacuations and care in the field have led to a 10% ...

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