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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Do, Can’t Do, Won’t Do: People with Disabilities (Part I)
There are two vantage points from which to view disability. One is public policy and the other is personal practice. Public policy covers finances, transportation, housing, employment and health care. Personal practice, in addition to those things, includes is … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Health Care
Tagged blind, cerebral palsy, deaf, disability, employment, finances, health care, Housing, public policy, transportation, wheelchairs
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Kathy Urschel Revisited
Of all the posts to my blog, the story about Kathy Urschel is the one that’s drawn the most readers. http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/kathy-urschel/ Kathy had contracted with Doug Childers, author, ghostwriter and book-doctor, to collaborate on her memoir. The week before she … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Death, disability, Health Care, Medical care, Power
Tagged athlete, bicycle racer, blind, deaf, doctors, Doug Childers, Kathy Urschel, massage therapist, Olympic, paralympics, Race Across America, tandem cycling, Trans-Continental Triathlon
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Camel Hair Coat Meets Poor Sick Folk (Part III)
County Legislator Tom Buckel continues to fire questions at the call-taker at Medical Answering Services and the woman continues to tell him he has to talk to Wayne Freeman, the co-owner, who will be in on Monday. He asks her … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged Ann Roney, Board of Elections, David Stott, David Sutkowy, Democratic Committee, Democrats, Dept. of Social Services, Health, Joannie Mahoney, John Mulroy, League of Women Voters, Medicaid transportation, Medical Anwering Services, Nick Pirro, Republicans, Sam Laguzza, Social Services, Wayne Freeman
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Camel Hair Coat Meets Poor Sick Folk (Part II)
So I climb into my wheelchair—still without socks—and go downstairs where I meet Tom Buckel in the lobby. He is tall, slender and obviously very fit—which is totally out of place in this building of 175 people who are all elderly … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged activist, bureaucrats, David Stott, Democrats, Disabled, elderly, lawyer, Mark Stanzyk, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, politicians, poor, Post-Standard, Republican Committee, Sam Laguzza, Thomqs Buckel, Wayne Freeman
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Camel Hair Coat Meets Poor Sick Folk (Part I)
[See also “Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry.” Today at Hutchings Psychiatric Center we meet Dr. James Megna, currently director of inpatient psychiatry at Upstate Medical Center. http://behindthelockeddoors.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/hutchings-psychiatric-center-notes-from-a-hospitalization-part-ii/] Yesterday I finally met with Tom Buckel, the man, healthy, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged David Stott, democracy, Democratic caucus, disability, disability rights, Governance, Mark Stanzyk, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County, Onondaga County Legislature, problem solving, Sam Laguzz, Thomas Buckel
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Happy [Disabled] Thanksgiving
Before I was born, my grandmother’s sister had a stroke that left her substantially paralyzed and barely able to speak. Great-grandfather had left parcels of land at the edge of the farm to his two daughters and their husbands, … Continue reading
Posted in disability, God, Spirituality, Values
Tagged disability, family, God, holidays, values
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Celiac, Aides and Your Signature
See also “Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry.” Today at Hutchings Psychiatric Center we meet Dr. Jane Kou for the first time. http://behindthelockeddoors.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/hutchings-psychiatric-center-notes-from-a-hospitalization-part-i/ Celiac Disease First, to the person who found me while searching for “emergency food availability for … Continue reading
How a Day Goes to Hell if You’re Disabled (Part I)
I woke up. Not a problem. A good beginning. Around 6:00 a.m. I got up, cleaned up, made my tea and turned on the lightbox. I have seasonal affective disorder, a problem common to Central New Yorkers, and it is … Continue reading
Behind the Locked Doors
One day I asked a writer-friend who had read a lot of my writing what he was most interested in reading. He said, “The things about inpatient psychiatry.” The doors are locked—nobody knows what goes on behind them. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, disability, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged antidepressants, Benjamin Rush Center, bipolar, Community General Hospital, CPEP, depression, diagnosis, disability, doctors, drugs, Four Winds, health care, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, National Institute of Mental Health, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Syracuse Psychiatric Hospital, Upstate Medical Center
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Behind the Locked Doors of Inpatient Psychiatry: About the Author (Part I)
When I was fourteen, I was diagnosed with depression and saw a psychologist for psychotherapy twice a week for about a year and a half. It was ineffective, so I got shipped off to boarding school. The bouts of depression … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, Powerlessness
Tagged antidepressants, bipolar, borderline personality disorder, depression, drugs, hospital, immune system, inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental disorder, mental illness, overdose, pharmaceuticals, pheromones, physicians, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, Psychotherapy, suicide, therapist
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