Post-traumatic stress disorder. When the rescuer becomes the victim.
Many people associate PTSD with veterans of the Vietnam War. But emergency responders are also vulnerable to this condition when trauma takes its psychological toll.
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo.
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