Half of All Kids Are Traumatized [TheAtlantic.com]

P.S. Maybe my "passionate" second term as a VISTA Volunteer, insuring the informed Consumer (Majority) Participation of Low Income and Elderly [New Hampshire/New England Health Care] "Consumers", during the tenure of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-641), has affected my "World View" and/or Bias....

I'm wondering if my previous Primary Care Physicians and Cardiologists considered this before I had a replacement mechanical Aortic Heart Valve installed in 1991, or even considered it more recently, for further study. How many other people "similarly Situated" (to borrow an old phrase from my Legal Training), might be candidates for this kind of follow-up study. I participated in the first Veterans Administration PTSD study of Non-Veterans/Non-Military Service Personnel; and whether "Stress Cardiomyopathy" might have been a more appropriate diagnostic construct, than the temporary/occasional "Atrial Fibrillation" my most recent PCP has noted in my chart/or that I find an occasional billing code for in my ICD-9--but no referral to a cardiologist. I'm beginning to wonder if Medicare A & B, is as "preventative" for Seniors as it is for young people under the ACA/Obamacare--noted in another ACEsConnection Blog post, recently ? ? ?