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National Public Radio and ProPublica have partnered to do an interesting two-part series on diagnosis and treatment of TBI and other brain injuries in active duty servicemembers. This is one of those stories you don’t want to miss! On NPR they call them “driveway moments”- you get home from work and sit in your car in the driveway just to hear the rest of the story.

Whatever you call those amazing stories that get you hooked, you definitely NEED to check this series out!

ProPublica is a nonprofit investigative news organization.

Based on dozens of interviews and access to previously unreleased military studies, documents and e-mails, NPR and ProPublica have found that from the battlefield to the homefront the military’s doctors and screening systems routinely miss brain trauma in soldiers. As a result, soldiers haven’t been getting treatment.

Part 1: The military medical system is failing to diagnose brain injuries in troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Part 2: Even when traumatic brain injury is diagnosed, many soldiers have to fight for adequate treatment.

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