A third of the soldiers who suffered battle shock in the Yom Kippur War are still undergoing psychiatric treatment, according to an article in the professional journal “Medicine.” The author, Dr. T.S. Adler of Beersheba, wrote that 20 percent of those now under treatment will continue to receive treatment for another year. He stated that most of the shock victims who received proper psychiatric treatment in field hospitals were able to return to the front within hours. He said the number of Israeli soldiers who suffered from chronic diseases after the war was proportionately larger than in the American armed forces after World War II and after the Vietnam war.
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