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I have received a few tips on how to break through to female veterans from stakeholders at the WHC; respect their space, listen to them, and provide options for care. Ultimately, this will lead to trust and once that is established, care typically progresses. This is easier to be done in primary care, we call them Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCS). As for inpatient, we can still enlist these tips to, ideally, eliminate barriers to care.
After speaking out about MST to their sergeants, often they are discharged and told that they are not eligible for benefits within the VA system. This combined with abuse, PTSD, dehumanizing culture of women in the military, and lack of outreach for female veterans, it is easy to understand their “roughness”.

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