New VA patients younger, more often women



Dr. Bethesaida Tafari Habte, Primary Clinician for Well Women Clinic, discusses health care with U.S. Air Force veteran Wendy Haylor of Piedmont, W. Va., on Nov. 13, 2009, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, W. Va. No one’s quite ready for them, but female veterans have arrived in the Veterans Affairs’s  hundreds of hospitals and clinics. A system long geared toward treating an aging male population is scrambling to care for thousands of female veterans.

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