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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Institute, The Wall and My Home, Part II
The problem, dear reader, is that McCarthy Manor’s front door is accessed by a circular driveway off Crouse Avenue and we travel by bus. The tenants of McCarthy Manor—mostly disabled—travel on short buses owned and operated by Centro’s Call-a-Bus, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Poverty, Power
Tagged City of Syraucse, Code Enforcement, disability, FOIA, FOIL, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of information legislation, HUD, Institute for Human Performance, Mayor, McCarthy Manor, MUTCD, Permit, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY, transparency, Upstate Medical Center
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The Wall, The Institute, and My Home, Part I
I keep thinking about The Wall. It is made of concrete, stands about three and a half feet tall and is topped by about four feet of wire fence, which is wrapped in dense fabric. It’s a very wall-ish wall. It runs down … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, disability, disability rights, Fraud, Government Services, Health Care, Housing, Medical care, Poverty, Power
Tagged City of Syracuse, community, disability, exercise machines, Health, HUD, Inspector General, Institute for Human Performance, investigator, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY, The Post-Standard, The Wall, transparency, Upstate Medical Center
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Antidepressants, Welfare, Medicaid and Celiac Disease
My kidneys are hurting since I started taking antidepressants Well, stop taking them, duh. If the pain doesn’t go away, then go see a physician. You might have a kidney infection that doesn’t have anything to do with the antidepressant, … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged Antidepressant, antidepressants, celiac disease, Chemical imbalance, Coeliac disease, Conditions and Diseases, depression, doctors, drugs, fat, Food Stamps, gluten-free, homeless, intelligence, Internet, lawyer, Legal Aid, malpractice, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, Office of Professional Medical Conduct, Onondaga County, OPMC, overweight, Physician, physician's license, poverty, problem solving, relationship, Sleep apnea, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Welfare
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Not Welfare, But Poor
So I emailed the library Reference Dept. and asked them my questions about who’s poor and sick and getting Welfare or Medicaid and they replied: Hi, Here is a link to the information available through the American FactFinder US Census website. It shows … Continue reading
Replying to the Recovering Psychiatrist
In regard to the good fairy, honorable physicians, and other fictional creatures—we are an immature nation that still wants daddy to take care of us. That’s the whole book right there. Physicians and the American medical industry get away with … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, Death, Depression, drugs, God, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Power, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Bhagavad Gita, Christianity, Conditions and Diseases, death, democracy, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, family, God, Governance, Health, health care, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicine, mental health, mental illness, Methodism, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, poverty, power, psychiatric disorders, relationships, Religion and Spirituality, Welfare
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Welfare Information: Gettin’ It
What you want to know is how many people are receiving services and how much it costs. I know this is what you want to know because you are flooding my blog with searches. In the past week, there have … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty
Tagged 435-1900, activist, County Executive, David Sutkowy, democracy, Dept. of Social Services, Governance, information, Joanie Mahoney, Legislature, Medicaid, OCPL, Onondaga County New York, Onondaga County Public Library, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, public assistance, racism, Reference Dept., Stan Linhorst, Welfare
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Who’s On Welfare? They’re working on it . . .
So I was trying to get information from the Dept. of Social Services about the population that receives Welfare or Medicaid. This search for information had taken me to the Dooher family, who work for the county, which had led … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Fraud, Government Services, Medicaid, Poverty, Power, Values
Tagged Civil Service, Comptroller, David Elleman, David Sutkowy, Dept. of Social Services, DSS, Governance, Medicaid, negative interview, nepotism, Onondaga County New York, poverty, power, problem solving, Republican Party, Welfare
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Welfare Information: Dooher Die
On March 30, we considered the subject of “Who’s On Welfare and What’s On Second?” In search of information, I had called—well, I called a whole lot of people in county government and kept getting passed around. Finally somebody in the … Continue reading
Posted in Fraud, Government Services, Poverty, Values
Tagged Civil Service, Comptroller, County Executive, David Elleman, David Sutkowy, dept. of audit and control, Dept. of Social Services, DSS, Ed Gusty, George Dooher, Governance, Medicaid, Onondaga County New York, Personnel Dept., poverty, power, Republican, Republican Party, Temporary Assistance, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Welfare
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A New Kind of Therapeutic Relationship
Three days ago I received a note that Peter Breggin, M.D., was having an Empathic Therapy conference in Syracuse this weekend. All I knew about Dr. Breggin was that he was user-approved by the radical wing of the psychiatric peer support … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Values
Tagged antidepressants, chronic illness, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, Embassy Suites Hotels, Friendship, Ginger Breggin, Health, health care, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, patients, peer support, Peter Breggin, peter breggom. empathic, pharmaceuticals, physicians, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapy, relationships, restraints, therapy, values
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Bible and Quran Quotes Identified
Show us the straight way. Quran The voice of one crying out in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’ Bible His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor … Continue reading
Posted in God, Spirituality
Tagged Allah, Bible, Christianity, God, Islam, Quran, Religion and Spirituality
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