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Veterans Need Time to Process After a TBI and Combat Stress Injury

Shane McNamee, MD
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Despite all the tools and medications doctors have to help patients recover, they cannot "fix" someone with complex injuries. But they can work with that person recover and rebuild a full life.

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Posted on BrainLine September 28, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Erica Queen, BrainLine, and Dan Edblom.

About the author: Shane McNamee, MD

Shane McNamee, MD serves as chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Richmond VAMC and has worked extensively on the development and implementation of the Polytrauma System of Care in the Veterans Health Administration.

Shane McNamee