In the opening session of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Annual Meeting, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy and General Peter Chiarelli U.S. Army (Ret.) called for equal treatment of conditions impacting the brain, including post-traumatic stress disorders, autism and addictions. As the author of the Mental Health Parity Act, Kennedy stated that there continues to be a stigma regarding the treatment of “brain based” illnesses and called for all patients to receive “check ups from the neck up” when they receive check ups from their physicians. Chiarelli echoed those comments stating that the brain is the last frontier and that… Read more