Army reviewing traumatic stress diagnostic practices

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the “unacceptable” practice of considering treatment costs in making a diagnosis, Army Secretary John McHugh told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday. Lieutenant General Patricia Horoho, the Army surgeon general, initiated the review in response to the discovery that hundreds of soldiers being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder had their diagnoses reversed after being seen by psychiatrists at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state. …