To Barry Schaller, appellate judge and bioethics scholar, the numbers are staggering. And worrisome.
In the past 10 years, roughly 2 million veterans have returned home after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and, according to studies, between 15 percent and 30 percent have post-traumatic stress disorder. But that could be just the tip of the iceberg. Studies of Vietnam veterans indicate it can take decades for problems to surface; about 70 percent receive a PTSD diagnosis at some point in their lives.
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