Veterans, Burns and Pain Management
In Ugly Lies the Bone, Jess's injuries"severe burns sustained from an IED explosion"are indicative of the unique costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of February 2013, these two conflicts had resulted in over 6,500 deaths, nearly half of them from IEDs. IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, are homemade bombs, constructed at a relatively