PTSD in search and rescue

April 2018

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Search and rescue volunteers deal with traumatic events which can lead to some rescuers developing post-traumatic stress disorder.
You’ve really got to take your hat off to search and rescue volunteers. Not only do they risk life and limb to aid those in desperate need of help, but as we learn in our feature ‘The trauma of rescue’, they also risk their sanity. It came as a real shock to learn that up […]
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