re: #43 MandyManners

He said that to patients? I thought he said that particular bit to his peers.

Boy, that contagious pre-PTSD sure works fast, doesn’t it? And it’s so virulent he got infected with it despite the fact that his position was primarily academic and he rarely interacted with patients. And when he did, he actually did things that might set off THEIR actual PTSD.

npr.org

According to the memo, Hasan hardly did any work: He saw only 30 patients in 38 weeks. Sources at Walter Reed say most psychiatrists see at least 10 times that many patients. When Hasan was supposed to be on call for emergencies, he didn’t even answer the phone.

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What those soldiers need, she says, is a psychiatrist they can trust completely — not a therapist who fails to show up and abandons his patients.

“This kind of behavior could, in fact, set off a stress reaction” in a patient, she says. “It could be a trigger to a post-traumatic stress reaction.”

In other words, he was harming his (few) patients long before he just started shooting everyone. And the media STILL tried to make him the victim.