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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Psychiatrist (Part 3)
In the 1990’s, Dr. Ghaly’s day would start before seven o’clock with a mug of tea in his hand as he headed for the car, more or less followed by his children. There were three: his first- and second-born sons, Fadi … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Values
Tagged alcoholism, anesthesia, antidepressants, Christian, Community General Hospital, depression, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, Fadi Ghaly, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, Noah Ghaly, psychiatric diagnoses, Psychiatrist, Ramses Ghaly, Schizophrenia, shock treatment, St. Joseph's Hospital, The Alliance
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Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Psychiatrist (Part 2)
I don’t know when I met Dr. Ghaly. Those years were peculiarly distorted by drugs, and I can’t remember. Dr. Ghaly does not know because around 2004 his office was flooded and all my old records were destroyed. It is rather pleasing … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, arrogance, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, drugs, family, foreign-born, home, malpractice, psychiatric abuse, Psychiatrist
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Answers to More Questions 2
Can a sixty-three-year-old divorced male on Social Security receive Food Stamps? Food Stamps have nothing to do with age, marital status or sex. They are awarded based on poverty so, yes, your Social Security payments may be so low that you qualify … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Government Services, Housing, Medicaid, Poverty
Tagged ADD, ADHD, age, answers, Bipolar disorder, Dept. of Psychiatry, Dr. Kevin Antschel, elderly, executive dysfunction, Food Stamps, government subsidies, HEAP, Heating Emergency Assistance Program, Housing, HUD subsidy, learning disorder, marital status, Medicaid, poor, poverty, povety, psychologist, Section 8, selfish Americans, sex, Social Security, Upstate Medical Hospital, VESID
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Life, the Universe, and Our Preoccupation with Medicine
This morning’s news has a story that begins “DNA taken from a pinkie bone at least 30,000 years old . . .” so let’s think about 30,000 years. This is the year 2010. Our time more-or-less began with the birth … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, God, Medical care, Nature, Spirituality, Values
Tagged Africa, billion, breeding, counting, Denisova Cave, DNA, doctors, drugs, God, home aides, inbreeding, incest, Israelites, life, Melanesia, million, Moses, Neanderthals, patients, sex, Siberia, time, universe
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Answers to More Questions
Family physician prescribe lithium Medicaid ANYONE TAKING LITHIUM SHOULD HAVE LITHIUM LEVELS DONE EVERY TWO MONTHS; KIDNEY FUNCTION SHOULD BE CHECKED EVERY SIX MONTHS, AND AN EKG SHOULD BE DONE ONCE A YEAR. Family physicians should not be prescribing lithium. … Continue reading
Posted in disability, disability rights, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged answers, antidepressants, Bipolar disorder, Depakote, Disabled, doctors, EKG, elderly, emotional abuse, family physician, free will, hospitalization, informed patient, inpatient psychiatry, involuntary commitment, kidney function, lawyer, Legal Aid, lithium, Medicaid, medical transportation, medical treatment, mood elevator, mood stabilizer, nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, Neurontin, PAMI, Patient, poor people, portable power wheelchair, Protection and Advocacy for the Mentally Ill, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric hospitalization, Psychiatrist, questions, renal failure, social problems
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A House for Christmas
Dear Shiu, I am often mindful of the day at Plymouth Church when you asked congregants to stand if they (a) had a college education, (b) owned their own home, (c) were paid a salary instead of hourly wages, and (d) lived … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Poverty, Values
Tagged Christmas, cost effective, Dept. of Social Services, developmentally disabled, disability, elderly, extremely low income, group homes, house, Housing, HUD-subsidized housing, Inspector General, Maxwell School, McCarthy Manor, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County, Plymouth Church, poverty, privilege, Section 8, Syracuse Developmental Center, Syracuse University, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
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When Open-Minded Doctor is not an Oxymoron (Part III)
I asked psychologist Paul Cohen, doctor of philosophy, what difference it makes—how am I different because I’m smarter? He said that intelligence makes you able to remember more things, understand things faster, think abstractly, and see the big picture. … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged doctor, doctors, Dr. Jennifer Daniels, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, Health, holistic, holistic medicine, I.Q., intelligence, medical school, mental health, Office of Professional Medical Conduct, Open-minded, OPMC, psychology
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When Open-Minded Doctor is not an Oxymoron (Part II)
Stephen Wechsler, doctor of chiropractic, is on a similar but slightly divergent path: he is querying the past for solutions to the present. He does not think about things; he experiences things: Rolfing, reiki, whatever. Do it to me, … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Nature, Spirituality
Tagged Art of Living, ayurveda, breathwork, diagnosis, doctor, doctor of chiropractic, Health, I.Q., medical school, Nasri Ghaly, Open-minded, Paul Cohen, pharmaceuticals, prescriptions, reiki, Stephen Wechsler
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When Open-Minded Doctor is not an Oxymoron (Part I)
Last week I told Dr. Nasri Ghaly that I was writing a book. Teasingly, he asked, “Is about me?” “Not just about you,” I said, “but partly. The part about you is called ‘To Interns in Search of a Role … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, Holistic, Spirituality, Medical care, American medical industry, God
Tagged acupuncture, adjunct faculty, associate professor, depression, DHEA, Douglas Adams, Dr. Milton Woodlen, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul Cohen, Dr. Stephen Wechsler, EMDR, Good doc tors, Hypnotherapy, Interns role model, life, medical school, Physician, Psychiatrist, sleep disorders, SUNY Upstate, the Universe and Everything"
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