Forum: PTSD bill Connecticut legislature has before it is misguided
By Frank Ricci
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is real and a bill before the Connecticut legislature, while well-intentioned, is misguided in the mechanisms to protect firefighters. Stress from traumatic events impact all professions where danger and death is prevalent. This bill says it would require worker’s compensation coverage for first responders “suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a direct result of witnessing the death of a human being or the immediate aftermath of such death.” Read the rest of this entry »
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