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Getting Appropriate Care After a TBI Involves the Patient, Doctors, and Family

Beverly Scott, MD
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Service members who sustained a TBI in theater need to seek professional care once they are home. Sharing their injury history, symptoms, and any diagnosis or treatment done in theater will help the stateside doctors better tailor care.

Posted on BrainLine July 20, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Youcha, Brian King, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.

About the author: Beverly Scott, MD

Col. Beverly Scott, MD currently serves as chief of the Neurology Service and Neuro-Ophthalmology staff at Madigan Army Medical Center. Current academic interests include posttraumatic migraine and co-morbidities associated with concussion.

Beverly Scott