Vets With PTSD Treated Like ‘Lepers,’ Doctor Tells Desmond Fatality Inquiry

Vets With PTSD Treated Like ‘Lepers,’ Doctor Tells Desmond Fatality Inquiry
The Desmond Fatality Inquiry is being held at the Guysborough Municipal building in Guysborough, N.S. on Nov.18, 2019.Andrew Vaughan /Canadian Press
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GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. — A New Brunswick doctor who specializes in treating veterans with PTSD apologized today for comments he made about the Department of Veterans Affairs during testimony before a fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia.

Paul Smith was testifying before a provincial inquiry that is investigating why Lionel Desmond, a mentally ill former soldier, killed three family members and himself in Big Tracadie, N.S., on Jan. 3, 2017.