Military Medical Ethics – Scenario Collection

Suicide after mission – Failed to offer treatment for PTSD

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Last updated: 19 Nov, 2018
Page ID: 50
Last updated: 19 Nov, 2018
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A soldier is diagnosed with PTSD only two years after he returns from a mission during which he witnessed four near-death experiences in Afghanistan, including thinking he had lost his legs when he was covered in another soldier's blood, and saw a friend die in his arms.

Due to a poorly established treatment system for diagnosed PTSD patients, he is not taken care of even after his diagnosis is established.

Three days after the PTSD diagnosis, he is found with a heroine overdose and cannot be saved.

Source: Ian Murphy in "The Mirror", 22 Oct 2015

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Page ID: 50
Last updated: 19 Nov, 2018
Revision: 5
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