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Christopher Garnier’s PTSD: right policy, wrong result, better outcome…

We may not like Veterans Affairs' decision to fund Christopher Garnier's PTSD treatment, but it is the right policy. And the publicity about Garnier's case may lead to better outcomes for other veterans' families.

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Sometimes a right policy results in a wrong result. Most of the time — including in the case of convicted murderer/diagnosed PTSD sufferer Christopher Garnier — we are better off focusing on the right policy rather than on the occasional unexpected, unhappy wrong result of that policy. When I was a young freelance journalist, I…

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