For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge to Find Care

The military health care system, which is so advanced in its treatment of lost limbs, has been scrambling and unable to deal with an unanticipated volume of traumatic brain-injury cases that it is ill-equipped to handle. Largely because of the improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Iraq, traumatic brain-injury has become a signature wound of this war, with 1,882 cases treated to date.

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