By Heath Druzin
Relocated to an empty clinic in the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System after going public about dangerous patient care problems, Dr. Katherine Mitchell needed a project to stay busy.
With the rate of suicides increasing within the Phoenix system, she started studying victims’ case files and found a pattern that seemed tragically easy to address: Of four who reported struggling in college, three had not received widely available but little-known academic accommodations for mental health issues, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
The fourth was already failing before he received any information.
“There’s a lot of myths and a hesitation to use academic accommodation because all the 
soldiers come from a very strong warrior background where asking for accommodation can be a sign of weakness,” she said. “It’s not a sign of weakness; it’s a strategy to use to make it through school.”
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