Dead Men Walking
"Dead Men Walking," an investigative feature in the March DISCOVER Magazine, reports on a little-known consequence of the Iraq War: the growing number of American soldiers coming home with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, only to languish inadequately treated. The article hinges on a harrowing irony. Survival rates for soldiers with TBI are rising to an unprecedented degree, thanks to advances in military medicine. But those soldiers are saved only to come home to American hospitals under funded, under staffed and generally unprepared to handle issues related to TBI. The soldiers are kept alive only to lead a kind of death-in-life existence.
