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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Exit Screaming
An open letter to Dr. Peter Breggin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin ). I met Ginger and Peter Breggin at the Empathic Therapy conference in East Syracuse in April 2011. He is the psychiatrist who has been most effectively outspoken against the damage done by … Continue reading
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Case Study of Confusion
This morning in the hospital around 11:00 a.m. I met with the physician assistant, a rather pleasant, intelligent young woman who was working as a fund raiser for an out-of-state nonprofit, then she changed her focus, came to a New York … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged antibiotic, Conditions and Diseases, diabetes, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Emergency department, glucose, Health, health care, hospital, hospitalist, insulin, Medicine, Nurse, Onondaga County New York, PA, Patient, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physician assistant, pneumonia
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The Federal Policy for Dying
I started this blog a year ago at a time when my life expectancy looked pretty short. “Notes in Passing” could have been interpreted as the notes I wrote while passing through life, or the notes of someone who was … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, disability, disability rights, drugs, Government Services, Health Care, Housing, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Poverty, Values
Tagged Hospice, Medicaid, Medicare
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How to Act Like an American (Part V)
(Continued from July 24) So now we have Centro Executive Director Frank Kobliski and his special assistant, Betty Petri, working on fixing Call-a-Bus (CAB), while Manager Linda McKeown continues to run the day to day operation—which isn’t going all that well. Every time I … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged American, Betty Petrie, Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, citizen, citizenship, CNYRTA, David Knight, disability, disability rights, electric wheelchair, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Governance, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Onondaga County New York, paratransit, poverty, power, power wheelchair, problem solving, Wheelchair
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How to Act Like an American (Part IV)
(Continued from July 21) I got Frank Kobliski, executive director of Centro, to come to Public Transportation Advisory Council meetings at ARISE. At the first meeting Frank attended, he learned that Linda McKeown, manager of Call-a-Bus (CAB), had a standing … Continue reading
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Tagged Betty Petrie, Bus, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, CNYRTA, David Knight, disability, disability rights, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Governance, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Onondaga County New York, paratransit, Wheelchair
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How to Act Like an American (Part III)
(Continued from July 19) Now here’s the frightening thing: The only way I know to find out the rules for running Centro’s Call-a-Bus service is to talk to the Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Who else knows … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Poverty, Power, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness
Tagged American, Betty Petrie, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, David Knight, disability, disability rights, Federal Transit Administration, Frank Kobliski, FTA, Governance, Linda McKeown, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Onondaga County New York, paratransit, poverty, power, problem solving
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How to Act Like an American (Part II)
(Continued from July 18) Here’s what actually happened. I called the FTA Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at their published phone number. The number was answered by a machine. It always is. Now. It didn’t used to be. When I first established … Continue reading
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Tagged ADA, American, Americans with Disabiliites Act, ARISE, Attorney David Knight, Beata Karpinska, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, disability, disability rights, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, Governance, law, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Onondaga County New York, People, poverty, power, problem solving, PTAC, Public Transportation Advisory Council
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How to Act Like an American (Part I)
Ten days ago, I wrote to the Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights because they weren’t replying to phone calls. My neighbor is in awe of me because, he says, he’s never known anyone who called Washington. More’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged American, CAB, Call-a-Bus, Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, Centro, citizens, citizenship, Civil and political rights, CNYRTA, compliance review, Congress, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, Linda Ford, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, paratransit, Susan Clark
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Bedbugs and Sharon Sherman
Letters to the Editor Post-Standard Clinton Square Syracuse, NY 13202 To the Editor: Last year two plagues were visited upon McCarthy Manor apartment building: bedbugs and Sharon Sherman. The story published by the Post-Standard on July 7 (“Syracuse tenants’ group … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, disability, disability rights, Government Services, Housing, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged bedbugs, disability, elderly, Greater Syracuse Tenants Network, Housing, HUD, Mayor Miner, McCarthy Manor. HUD, Onondaga County, Post-Standard, poverty, problem solving, Sharon Sherman, Stephanie Miner, Syracuse, Tenant Rights, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Wilt the Stilt and Me
According to objective aptitude testing, intellectually I am in the top one or two percent of Americans. So what does it mean to be smart? I asked my psychologist and he detailed some of the differences between smart and stupid … Continue reading
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Tagged aptitude testing, average, cognitive, college, developmentally disabled, diagnosis, Education, educational psychology, Elementary school, executive dysfunction, Gifted education, high school, I.Q., Intellectual giftedness, intellectually gifted, intelligence, intelligence quotient, Learning disability, mild retardation, problem solving, psychologist, smart, Special Needs, students, stupid, teachers, very superior intelligence, Wilt Chamberlin
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